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Unlimited online access to classroom-tested printables and teaching materials.
Scholastic Teachables provides access to more than 30,000 resources for Pre-K - Grade 6. It includes activity sheets, lesson plans, and more, covering all subjects and themes.
Provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos.
Science Reference Source allows users to conduct keyword searches or browse topics by branch of science. In addition to full-text periodicals, books, biographies, and essays, it includes science experiments, videos, and high-quality images.
Bring school projects to life with videos, first-person accounts, digital books, games, and more.
TrueFlix uses the award-winning True Books content to help students build literacy skills as they learn about a variety of subjects. Science and Social Science content comes alive through dynamic videos, interactive eBooks, engaging meaningful activities and project ideas that enhance the learning and teaching experience.
Animated, talking picture books that teach kids the joy of reading.
Tumblebooks features animated picture books with sound, music, and narration, so children can read or be read to.
Expert authors combine facts, analysis, & insights for concise introductions in a range of subjects.
Very Short Introductions provides the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. The series offers concise and original introductions to nearly 700 subjects, with more added monthly.
Reference tool for eighth grade and up, providing articles, media, primary sources, eBooks and more.
World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool for high school students and adults. It includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, Back in Time articles, special reports and more.
An upper-level Spanish language database, intended for high school students through adult learners.
Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta is a comprehensive Spanish-language database designed for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and ESL/ELL program participants. It includes more than 140,000 articles, 8,000 web links to additional information, and 9,000 images, videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media.
A learning tool for preschoolers to explore independently or learn with an adult.
World Book Early Learning is designed for preschool students. It has tools and content that reinforce early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, matching and tracing games, and more.
A beginner’s Spanish language reference tool, offering editorial content, media, and engaging features in Spanish.
The ideal Spanish-language reference tool for those learning Spanish and Englsih language learners. Browse features provide visual prompts, and bilingual features allow students to toggle between Spanish and English text. The site includes concise articles, videos, maps, activities and more.
Thousands of easy-to-read articles developed especially for elementary-aged users.
An ideal learning resource for elementary-aged students designed to build confidence and encourage creativity with image-driven navigation and inquiry-based activities. The site features easy-to-read articles that can be read aloud or translated with a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities.
A dedicated French-language encyclopedia that contains easy-to-read articles, thousands of images and additional activities.
Perfect for native-speaking researchers, advanced bilingual, and ELL students, L'Encyclopédie Découverte has highly visual articles written in French at an easier reading level.
Articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas and much more.
Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.
Offers hundreds of timelines across eight broad topics, covering various time periods in history.
Offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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