Elementary School Resources
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Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search skills. (Available from home).
Kids Search
EBSCO Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-5. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, and more. (Available from home).
A to Z Maps Online
The worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. (Available from home when you enter your library barcode in the appropriate box)
A to Z World Travel
Find useful information about 202 cities around the world: where to stay, where to eat, what to see, etc. Includes accurate currency converter. User can choose to print specific sections. (Available from home)
America's Newspapers
find current and archived state, regional, and national full-text articles on issues, events, people, government, etc, including Boulder's Daily Camera, the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. (Available from home)
Britannica for KIDS
Jump to the KIDS edition of Encyclopedia Britannica after you log in using your library card by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of the page. (Available from home)
eLibrary (formerly BigChalk)
General reference tool geared for students. Allows searches of magazines, newspapers, transcripts, and photos. (Library use only)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Access to thousands of encyclopedia entries on a variety of topics. (Available from home).
GreenFile
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Read up on PV cells, greenscaping, and much more. (Available from home).
Mango Language for Children (Little Pim)
A language database geared to children ages 0 - 6. Mango has partnered with Little Pim to bring this database online. Please test this database and let the library know if we should order this database. (Available from home)
Newspaper Source
Selected full text from national and regional US newspapers including the Denver Post, Greeley Tribune and Pueblo Chieftain, and transcripts from TV and radio news. (Available from home).
NoveList K-8 Plus
This reader's advisory tool for students also contains author information. (Available from home)
Primary Search
Access to articles and information from popular, elementary school magazines, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. (Available from home).
World Book Encyclopedia
Access the World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Encyclopedia for Kids and other World Book Reference sites, including Spanish language resources, from this link. (Available from home)
Worldbook Info Finder
use this site for help with general research including science, current events, creating citations. This site also contains help with conducting research and using primary sources. (Available from home).
Homework Resources by Subject
Resources by topic.
