Ask a Scientist!
Laboratory/Newton is a site where students and teachers can ask real scientists questions!
Discovery Education Streaming
FOR TEACHERS ONLY (Contact your Media Specialist for New User Passcode to open an account)-
Collection of more than 40,000 video segments from amony 4,000 full-length educational videos from Discovery School and other award-winnig producers.
EBSCO
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 400 general interest and research magazines plus the search able full text for 140 periodicals and Magill's Book Reviews. Magazine titles include Newsweek, Scientific American, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News and World Report, and P.C. World. The earliest abstracts begin in 1984 and earliest full text in 1990.
GaleGroup
An online database containing Custom Journals, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribner Writers Series, The Twayne Authors Series, Twayne World, English, and US Authors, Discovering Collection, Student Resource Center: Gold, Junior Reference Collection, Literature Resource Center: LRC, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Contact your Media Specialist for password.
Grolier Online
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, The New Book of Popular Science, Land and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
K-12 Teaching and Learning Center
Creative Resources for Quality Education. User is WAKE and password is WAKE (both must be in all caps)
LearnNC
Similar to an online version of your school's media center, NC Learn provides teachers with high-quality resources for their classrooms and students with a safe place to do their own research on the Web.
NC Wise Owl
Links to reference sites for students, parents, and teachers. NC Wise Owl includes links specifically targeted toward North Carolina.
Plagerism Quiz
Learn about plagerism by taking a 10 question quiz (which corrects incorrect answers) entitled What is Plagiarism from Indiana University.
Proquest K-12
Includes Culture Grams, SIRS Decades, & Proquest Online. Proquest Online database covers almost 400 leading education journals, 1988 to present.
Proquest SIRS Decades
SIRS Decades features approximately 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people and places in 20th century America.
Wake County Public Libraries
Link to Wake County Public Libraries for easy access to their web page and catalog.
World and I School
Comprehensive Cross-Curriculum Resource - Contact your Media Specialist for Username and Password.
World Book Encyclopedia Online
Online Encyclopedia - Contact your Media Specialist for Username and Password.