World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. World Book Online offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other print articles.
SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities. The full-text articles database consists of articles reprinted with permission, from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and U.S. government documents. Other features include: The World Almanac for Kids, Compton’s Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.
MackinVIA is a complete eResource management system providing easy access to eBooks, audiobooks and educational databases. With just one login, users can view, utilize, and manage all of their eResources.
PebbleGo is a database that features leveled text and navigation specifically designed for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through grade 2. Animal and biography databases are available.
Capstone Interactive Library is a collection of award-winning interactive books! Available in different subjects and formats, interactive books use audio and animation to engage readers.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on over 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.
Maps 101 includes over 6,000 maps, activities, games and much more! This correlates well for use with science, language arts, and social studies.
TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials and exciting programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library media center, and home.
Use your Howard County Library card barcode number to access many online reference sources. To locate the online resources, click on the "Students and Teachers" tab, then select "Homework Help". At the "Homework Help" page, click "Databases".
TrueFlix is an online Whiteboard resource focusing on engaging science and social studies content for students spanning grades 3-5.
The TumbleBook Library is a fun and interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers and older independent readers.