ABC-CLIO includes two historical databases. America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database has almost half a million entries, providing valuable research tools for students and teachers in both United States and Canadian history. Historical Abstracts include a complete guide to the history of the world from the Scientific Revolution until present.

American Library Association's Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year.

TEACHING's™ site, presented by WebMagic, offers a wide variety of resources for Teachers.

Great Web Site for Girlzs (and Boyzs too). Both female and male authors.

The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768 and is the world's most comprehensive reference with over 72,000 articles, 10,000 illustrations and 75,000 definitions. Updated and revised by its editors and contributors it also includes pronunciation guides and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

CultureGrams is a comprehensive geographical database that includes maps, flags, statistics and 25 categories of information about more than 200 nations around the world. Included are brief contemporary and historical social, political, and economic profiles. Additionally, this reference includes specific sections on each the US states and Canadian provinces.

The Grolier database is another good database containing over 117,000 articles searchable by reading level. Included are multimedia resources such as photographs, videos and interactive maps, as well as news articles, feature stories and an international news desk. Bibliographic tools supporting MLA, APA and the Chicago Manual of Style are provided for articles in the database.

The Cobblestone Magazine database is a great resource for most American History and Multicultural topics.

NetTrekker is a search engine designed for students and teachers. This search utility is connected to more than 180,000 references (including images) which have been evaluated and approved by educators. Resources and images are organized by grade and readability level and aligned with state standards.


This will link to a file with userid and password information for all available databases. You will need the school's universal password to access this page. If you do not know this, ask your teachers or the librarian.

ProQuest has agreements with more than 9,000 publishers worldwide, providing access to information from periodicals, newspapers, image and video collections, out-of-print books, dissertations, and scholarly collections in various formats. The archive includes more than 5.5 billion pages of information, spanning 500 years of scholarship, in formats that range from print to microform to digital files.


World Book Online includes: resource guides on selected topics, including U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and other countries; more than 20,000 photos, illustrations, and maps; an online reference center including dictionaries and atlases. This is a companion site for the World Book encyclopedia set in the reference section of the library.

Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol is the Britannica Spanish language encyclopedia.

Source material from Britannica Annals of American History Online.

Information on people and land and science.

Royalty free music library for schools.

A great, reliable resource. Find neswpaper and magazine aritcles, books, pictures, maps, and TV and radio scripts. (Get user name and password from your teacher or the librarian.)

Connections to your teacher will provide a departmentally organized list of AMS teachers, their email addresses and their classroom webpages--if they have one.
SuccessNet is a link to online copies of your text books. It works with most of the Prentice Hall books for Social Studies and Science provided in the 2007 adoption. You will need an authorization code from your teacher to register.
WebTrekker is a network service where teachers and students can access their digital lockers from anywhere they have internet access. It will use the same login and password you use to access the library computers.
A quick one page style guide explaining how to format a paper take from the Modern Language Association (MLA) handbook. The example includes illustrations of the first page and works cited page.
The WOIS system connects students to their electronic portfolios which are required for all freshmen students. You can get the site key for our school from the passwords link (Paid Databases). If you do not have the password for this page, see the librarian or one of your teachers.

This is a one page quick reference with examples showing how to format citations using the Modern Language Association guidelines. It inclcudes examples for some of the more commonly used source types.
The Citation Machine is a free web based utility with formatting tools for MLA, APA, Turabian, and the Chicago styles.
EasyBib is another free web utility for formatting MLA citations. They have a pay service also which will format APA style citations.
WebWise explans the grammar of the internet, to help users evaluate information found on the internet.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
This site has six main sectors: Puzzle Playground (a treasury of classic and modern puzzles), Puzzle Links (links to the web's best puzzling), Puzzles in Education (puzzle resource center for teachers), Puzzle Help (hints, advice and info.), Puzzle Club (puzzling is good for you), and Projects (where the puzzle ideas are reality).
TeachingBooks.net is a time-saving portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.
These general links reference academic sites and tools that are used accross subjects. They contain several links that are helpful to both teachers and students. Sites vary widely and there are breif descriptions for each.
Primary Sources links that should be useful...
The Snohmish and Island counties combined library system with branches in Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, Brier and Mill Creek is one of the larger library systems in the state. With a Sno-Isle library card you can find and checkout materials online.
The Univeristy of Washington Library system is one of the largest collections on the West Coast with over 7 million volumes in its collection. You can search this collection online and while you can not check these materials out, you can find almost everything there.
Edmond Community College is another local library system that may be useful in finding research materials. Remember that you will need an ECC ID card to check out materials.
Classroom-Based Assessments and Classroom-Based Performance Assessments for Social Studies, the Arts, and Health and Fitness.
The King County Library system is one of the largest regional library systems in the state. With a King County library card you can access books, music, video, and additional electronic databases. With a local library here in Shoreline, you should consider looking here.
The Seattle Public Library has a collection of approximately 2,000,000 items. The collection includes books, audio books, music CDs, videos and DVDs, books in large type, and magazines and newspapers - for all ages..

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