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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Use your Howard County Library card bar code 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".
Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality. Includes a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents.
PebbleGo databases make learning and improving reading and research skills fun, building on children’s interest. Also includes read-along audio, word-by-word highlighting and simple navigation. Northfield ES has access to Biographies, Animals, Science, Social Studies and Dinosaurs databases.
TumbleBooks Premium is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, Tumble Puzzles and Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to TumbleBook format.