ONSITE AFTER SCHOOL HOMEWORK HELP
Monday - Thursdays, 3:30-6:00 pm
Irving Street Library provides homework assistance for students in elementary, middle school, and high school. Our goal is to offer a homework-friendly place, so students can complete their homework in a timely manner and to help students understand their homework assignments, so they can complete them on their own.
*There will be no Homework Help November 24-30 and December 22-January 4.
FREE ONLINE DATABASES FOR KIDS
Need to find an article or reference book for your project? Try our student databases ...
Ebsco Animals
Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Ebsco Student Research Center
This search interface for for students in grades 6-12 that provides easy, yet powerful searching of
magazine and journal articles, a reference collection, multimedia, newspapers, primary source documents, poetry and literary criticism, geography and country studies.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of reference books in e-book format, including:
Animals, Biography, Environment, Geography/Maps, Government/Law, History, Holidays, Science, Social Life and Customs, Sports, and more.
GreenFile
GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Kids Search
Designed for students in grades K-6, Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use,graphical interface for searching magazines, newspapers, photos, primary source documents, an encyclopedia,a dictionary, media transcripts and more with just one search. Detailed Search features allows searching by Lexile reading levels.
Lands & Peoples
Country encyclopedia with individual entries that feature each country’s flag, fact box, and map. The body of each article covers current events, geography, culture, economy, history, and government. A list of related websites is provided.
Novelist Plus K-8
Updated monthly, NoveList K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books,
children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. Use the Favorite Books feature to find more books to read. Search for something new to read by setting, time period, subject, Lexile level, plot or series.
Points of View
Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Science Resource Center
This database contains thousands of experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations covering science topics.The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Student Resource Center
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies,
topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 300 magazines,
newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
Also cross-searches Gale Virtual Reference Library.
World Book Online
Access accurate, authoritative, easy to read articles from The World Book Encyclopedia, related articles
from major newspapers and magazines along with extensive graphic and multimedia enhancements, including
photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, animations, and audio/video clips.
Additional databases for students can be found here.
