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Academics / 📚 Library Resources / 🔎 Research Websites

📚 Library Resources

Research Steps

Connect: Observe, experience, connect a subject to self and previous knowledge. 

Wonder: Predict, develop questions and hypotheses.

Construct: Draw conclusions, arrive at new understandings. 

Express: Apply understandings to a new context, share learning with others. 

Reflect: Examine one's own learning and ask new questions.

Websites

BrainPOP
Articles and videos on Science and Social Studies topics.
National Geographic Kids
Articles, videos, and games on Science and Social Studies topics.
TIME for Kids
Current event articles by grade level or by topic.
How Stuff Works
Articles and videos by topic.
Ducksters
Articles and games on Science and Social Studies topics.
Ology
Videos, games, stories, and activities for science topics.
The Ways
Stories on culture and language from Native communities around the Great Lakes. 
Wisconsin First Nations
Viedos and resources on the 12 American Indian Nations of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Biographies
16 biographies of people from Wisconsin. 

Research Websites
for Students

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica
Articles and pictures for research topics.
Fact Monster
Fast facts on math, science, the world, people, and sports.
Scholastic GO! 
Articles and images, world news, and a world atlas.
KidzSearch Encyclopedia
Safe search articles and images on a variety of topics.

Databases

Information on animals, biographies, earth/space, and social studies for beginning readers.
Pebble Go Next
Information on animals, biographies, earth/space, and social studies including states and American Indian history.
TrueFLIX
Videos and nonfiction ebooks on a variety of social studies and science topics.
Learn360
Videos, maps, audiobooks, songs, sounds, and games.
Explora
Search books, journals, and newspapers.

Atlases

Britannica Atlas
World Atlas connected to fast facts, articles, and images.
Google Maps

Search for Books

Search for books!
Search Icons - Free Download, PNG and SVG
Search the Public Library
Search for books!
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (ecpubliclibrary) - Profile | Pinterest

Images, Videos, Sounds

Google Safe Image Search

Content-safe Google image search.
Photos for Class
Age-appropriate images and automatic citations.
Learn360
Videos, maps, audiobooks, songs, sounds, and games.

Badgerlink Multimedia

Images, videos, and sounds.

Wikimedia Commons

Images, videos, and sounds.

KidzSearch Images

Safe search images.

Soundzabound Music Library

Sounds and music.

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

Dictionary.com
Words and their meanings.
Thesaurus.com
Synonyms and antonyms.
Rhyme Zone
Online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.