ONSITE AFTER SCHOOL HOMEWORK HELP CENTER
Monday - Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30 p.m.
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. Homework Center starts September 7, 2010.
FREE ONLINE DATABASES FOR KIDS
Need to find an article or reference book for your project? Try our student databases ...
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
Reference e-books you can use at home including : Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource,
2nd Ed.; Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library; Encyclopedia of World Biography;
Notable Sports Figures; Alternative Energy; Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures; and
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays.
Grzimek's Animal Life
Grzimek's Animal Life on the web uses the content from the multi-volume Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia to provide unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.
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.
Novelist Plus K-8 Plus
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.
Opposing Viewpoints Research Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more.
Primary Search
included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles 1990.
Salem History
This database provides online access 34 full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary found in the reference book Milestone Documents in American History.
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 students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. This interface searches Primary Search and Middle Search Plus.
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
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.
