Experience environmental education with Gale In Context: Environmental Studies and get 24/7 access to nearly 400 pages across science, social studies, and the humanities. Organize, share, save, and cite easily with integrated tools for Students and Researchers.
Dissect science like never before with Gale Interactive: Science. See beyond the text with this hands-on virtual lab. Entertain your curiosity by zooming in, rotating, or pulling models apart to experiment with over 200 complex topics like the solar system, Earth’s weather patterns, biology concepts, growth of organisms, engineering practices, the water cycle and more.
Obtain digital copies of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles. Search for specific topics or browse subject categories. Derive articles from an extensive collection of publications.
Britannica School includes portals for elementary, middle, and high school students. Find up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, video, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and more.
See also: Britannica Library Reference Center | Britannica Escolar
Find up-to-date information and important facts on a broad range of curriculum-related educational topics. Includes kid-friendly charts and graphs, images, educational videos, full-text books, magazines, and news periodicals.
Explora is a fun, easy-to-use tool that can help you complete research and classroom assignments. With Explora, you will discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art & music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures & languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports.
Experience environmental education with Gale In Context: Environmental Studies and get 24/7 access to nearly 400 pages across science, social studies, and the humanities. Organize, share, save, and cite easily with integrated tools for Students and Researchers.
Dissect science like never before with Gale Interactive: Science. See beyond the text with this hands-on virtual lab. Entertain your curiosity by zooming in, rotating, or pulling models apart to experiment with over 200 complex topics like the solar system, Earth’s weather patterns, biology concepts, growth of organisms, engineering practices, the water cycle and more.
Discover and learn for fun and school! Find facts about science, nature, archaeology, and space. Includes National Geographic Kids magazine, books, images, and more.
Scholastic Go! offers comprehensive nonfiction content for kids in grade 3 and up. Includes the following four encyclopedia databases: Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. Find daily news and current events, interactive maps, dictionaries, and videos.
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and experiments.
Scholastic ScienceFlix brings science education to students with hands-on scientific experiments, in-depth STEM careers exploration, and interactive videos, articles and lesson plans. This resource is for school aged children from 10 to 15 years old and can be accessed with your Santa Clara County Library District library card.
TrueFlix is an online eBook service for children in grades 3-6 that offers nonfiction True Books and multimedia content from Scholastic to help students improve literacy skills, build knowledge of curriculum-based Science and Social Studies content, and cultivate important academic skills through the inquiry process. Content includes nonfiction and fiction eBooks, primary sources, videos, audio clips, images, and related websites. TrueFlix helps students improve literacy and critical thinking skills, and build content-area knowledge. In addition, TrueFlix helps students achieve key college and career readiness support.
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The Watch & Learn Library from Scholastic provides 230+ nonfiction videos, vocabulary, and quizzes for young learners in grades PreK-3. The videos use real-world footage to build science, social studies and social-emotional knowledge. Closed captioning for each video supports beginning readers. Content available in English and Spanish.
*World Book access is intermittent due to a technical issue. Please check back later.
Provides encyclopedia articles, edited to suit kids and adults. Also includes tables, animations, videos, pictures, maps and resources for teachers. This trustworthy reference is perfect for school reports and research papers.
There are different portals for different age ranges, and includes Spanish resources for elementary school users. Learn more by viewing the tutorial below or these additional tutorials.
