MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY
Mrs. Suda - Mrs. A. Thompson
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CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL MS/HS ONLINE DATABASES
Look in your agenda for the database passwords or get the update from Mrs. Suda or Mrs. Thompson. We also have the database passwords on our Middle School Library Website. To locate the passwords, click on "Database Passwords" on the left side of this page. Use our favorite password to access the page. GALE DATABASES Biography Resource Center Use Biography Resource Center for great Narrative Biographies, Thumbnail Biographies, Periodicals, and Websites. Student Resource Center - Gold Student Resource Center is a database containing thousands of curriculum-related primary documents, biographies, essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. A great source for English Research papers and Social Studies students. Gale Virtual Reference Center - EBOOKS Business, Education, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Nation and World, Religion and Science are the topics for our Ebooks. Some of these are provided through 21st Century Libraries, Erie 1 BOCES School Library Systems and CCSD funds. Gale Students, Faculty, Staff and Parents will find many uses for this source which includes 12 different databases. Look for: Student Resource Center-Gold, Opposing Viewpoints, Gale Virtual Refernce Library, Erie1 BOCES Ebooks, New York State Newspapers, Custom Newspapers, Business and Company ASAP, Biography Resource Center, Business and Company Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module, National Newspaper Index, and Twayne Author Series (in order of appearance on the webpage). CAREERS Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Visit our career information database. CURRENT ISSUES & EVENTS Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive Looking for great photos for your project, this will provide great photos for your school projects. Associated Press provides all the photos, audio sound bites, graphics and text for this valuable resource. SIRS Discoverer Visit this popular database for information in current events and controversial issues. ENCYCLOPEDIAS Grolier Online Grolier On-line provides students with 3 major encyclopedias: New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, and Encyclopedia Americana. The database also includes: Book of Popular Science and Lands and Peoples. There is a separate User Name and Password for School and Remote Home Usage World Book Online World Book Online provides 3 different encyclopedias: World Book Kids, World Book Student and World Book Advanced. Additional resources include: World Book Discover and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos. In the World Book Digital Library students will find the ebooks: Living Green, Early Peoples, and Inventions and Discoveries. Students and staff have remote access with their WB Username and Password. FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND CULTURES CultureGrams This database not only is useful to our foreign language students but is great for anyone wanting to know about the culture of countries around the world. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe this is the place for information about different cultures. Use our favorite password for this one. Linguascope HEALTH Teen Health and Wellness An online resource created specifically for teens with their unique concerns and perspective. Teen Health and Wellness is designed to provide research support and self-help on topics including: diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, life skills, work readiness, mental health, family life, and more. MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS Cobblestone Do you like reading about current event or history that is written for Middle School Students? Visit this new database and read about many of the topics that you are studying in school. EBSCO This major database includes a collection of databases to meet all research needs. Students, Faculty, Staff, and Parents may use: On the main page library patrons may select from EBSCOhost Web, Students Reseach Center, Kids Search Searchasaurus, EBSCOhost Espanol and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Within EBSCOhost Web library patrons will find: MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, TOPICsearch, Health Source Consumer Edition, Primary Search, Funkd and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia , GreenFile, Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts, and Teacher Resource Center. Please use our favorite user name and password for this one. ProQuest Proquest offers our students access to one of the world's largest collections of periodicals, including summaries of articles from over 8,000 publications, with many in full text, full image format. Requires Account Name and Password. Remote access. Email capability. SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES. AND MORE Brainpop Have fun while learning about your favorite topics at this site PUBLIC LIBRARY
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» Teachingbooks.net
Teachers may use this resource, made available through Erie 1 BOCES SLS, to supplement the teaching of novels and authors in their classrooms.
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