Information Literacy: Skills for the 21^st Century

4 Great Databases for Learning – Kids, Teachers, Administrators

At School and at home!

Worldbook Encyclopedia – and a whole lot more!

http://www.worldbookonline.com

Description:

The same World Book you are used to using. Each article starts out at a lower reading level and increases progressively as the article continues.

Search for articles, atlas, tables, sounds, pictures, and movie clips.

Nifty Features:

• Each article includes links to relevant websites which have been prescreened by World Book.
• Article outline allows you to jump to any point in the article quickly
• Just double click on any word in an article to get a dictionary definition and pronunciation guide.

Big Chalk Library – previously eLibrary

http://library.bigchalk.com/

Description:

Reference of subscription-based educational products, as well as free resources. Search magazines, newspapers, books, maps, audio/visual, pictures, and transcripts… all with an Elementary focus.

Nifty Features:

• Assigns reading levels to each article
• Allows you to sort article by title, date, reading level, relevancy, or size
• Allows you to save a temporary search list
• Article citation is at top of each article

Proquest

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb

Description:

Easy Web access to more than 4,000 newspapers and full text periodicals (magazines), over a million dissertations, and a wide range of other content. Especially good for Secondary and Administrators

Nifty Features:

• Advanced search makes narrowing down your topic easy
• Save articles from a search in a temporary marked list
• Provides abstract and full text
• Search particular periodicals or dates

Net Trekker

http://www.nettrekker.com/

Description:

This search engine for schools, enhances teaching and learning by providing fast and easy access to more than 180,000 high quality, pre-screened, and educationally relevant K-12 online resources which align with state academic standards and benchmarks.

Nifty Features:

• Choose Elementary or Secondary searches
• Search by State Standards
• Create interactive timelines
• Greatly increases the odds of finding appropriate websites within the first 3-5 hits
• Tracks your most recent searches
• Great teacher tools

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