WPL Teen Underground Homework Help

Homework Help

The websites you will find linked to this page have been analyzed and selected by the Youth Services staff at the Westminster Public Library for use by students in grades 6-12. The information you find on these sites should be both accurate and up-to-date. If you know other sites that should be included, please call 303-404-5106. Links to our student databases, available remotely to Westminster residents, are also included.

Web Topics

Cultures & Civilizations

Mythology & Religions

Native Americans

News & Current Events

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES FOR STUDENTS

Culture Grams
CultureGrams Online provides concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures. Each report, written and reviewed by in-country experts, offers an insider’s perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports cover 180 plus countries, updated every year.

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.

MAS Ultra- School Edition
Designed specifically for high school students, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines and provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.

Novelist
Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Users can browse theme-oriented book lists at every reading level through Explore Fiction, and look for outstanding titles in Best Fiction. Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and Book Talks.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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.

Science in Context
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.

Transparent Language Online
Transparent Language Online is a powerful web-based language learning system that uses flashcards to teach a set of words or phrases. It is the fastest possible way to lock foreign words and phrases into long-term memory. Features include personal progress tracking, pronunciation analysis, ESL international language and cultural resources and much more. Pick from over 80 languages.

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.