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World Book Kids: Includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images, maps and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and great teacher resources. |
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World Book Student: Includes a biography center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor selected websites and much more. |
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World Book Discover: Includes great resources for both research and life and learning skills. Contains activities and interactive video. Click on World Book Explains in the reference tools for some great video clips on many subjects. |
 All World Book sites offer audio for all articles and translations into over 12 languages! With WB Student and WB Discover you can click a word within the text to see a definition of that word. |
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SIRS Discoverer: Includes over 19,000 magazines, newspapers and government publications including many children's magazines. Great photos, maps, charts and illustrations. |
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Ebsco's Seachasaurus: For the beginning researcher to find magazines and newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries and more on a variety of topics ranging from animals to history to stories. K - 5. |
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Ebsco's Kid's Search: A bit more advanced than Searchasaurus. For K - 8. |
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Grolier's Online Kids: Accesses other Grolier databases utilizing the information that is most age appropriate for kids. |
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Grolier's Multimedia: Packed with the sights and sounds that make learning fun! This encyclopedia is appropriate for younger students. |
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Colorado Virtual Library for Kids: A cooperative project of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado library community to provide access to other libraries, collections and resources for kids and teachers. |
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Children’s Magazine Guide for Kids: Access to carefully annotated citations of recent articles from more than 27 children's magazines carried at our library. Please use the following to login:
User name: Broomfield Password: library |
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| History/Social Studies/Geography |
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CultureGrams: Covers land and climate, customs, lifestyle, recipes, famous people and much more. Listen to the national anthems and find all the state symbols. Includes: World Edition, Kids Edition, States Edition, and Provinces edition. Click here for a helpful brochure. |
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Grolier's Lands and Peoples: Information about people, geography, economy, language, culture and history. |
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SIRS Discoverer: Click on Country Facts or Maps of the World on the right hand side to access just two of the many features this database offers! |
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| Science and Animals |
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Grolier's New Book of Popular Science: Science and technology information written at a kid's level. |
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Facts On File's Science Online: Offers biographies, essays, definitions, diagrams, experiments, timelines and more. |
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Drama/Reading/Literature |
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World Book: Dramatic Learning: Download original scripts, skits, monologues, and adaptations of classics. Includes a variety of lesson plans. Grades 1-12. |
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Ebsco's NoveList K- 8 Plus: Look for fiction and non-fiction books by subject, author, age, or lexile level. Great series lists, recommended reads, award winners. All sorts of lists and tools available to find what you're looking for. Great for kids, parents and teachers. |
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TumbleBooks: Fantastic online books for kids; storybooks for picture book format, audio books and Tumble Readables for longer books. There are books in several languages and puzzles and games to go along with others. Sit back, relax, and listen and enjoy! |
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| Study Skills/Exam & Parent/Teacher Help: |
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LearningExpress Library: Contains a section on elementary school skills improvement where 4th graders and 5th graders can take math and reading practice tests. (You will need to create your own user name and password to access these tests).
This is also a great resource for middle, high school and college students, job and workplace skills,
U. S. Citizenship preparation, computer skills and GED prep. Resources in Spanish are also included.
Recursos en espanol tambien estan incluidos. |
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Ebsco's NoveList K- 8 Plus: Databases containing information about fiction and non-fiction titles specifically for grades K - 8 as well as advisory, teaching and learning materials for readers and teachers.
Teachers click on any of the links under Working With Kids to access fantastic help; for teaching units from preschool to high school!. |
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| Spanish/Espanol: |
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Grolier's Cumbre en Linea (Spanish Encyclopedia): Great Spanish resource. Timelines, atlases, maps, Spanish language lessons, and much more - all in Spanish.
Estupendos recursos en Español. Continuidad cronologica, atlas, mapas, lecciónes in Español y much más - todo en Español. |
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World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazogos: This is a beginning-level Spanish encyclopedia, with thousands of articles, illustrations and maps and an easy to use bilingual interface.
Esta enciclopedia en Español is de nivel inicial, con miles de artículos, ilustraciones, mapas y con un interfaz biligüe fácil de usar. |
All World Book databases can be translated into Spanish as well as more than 12 other languages!
Toda información y dato base en el World Book puede ser traducio al Español. Igual que a mas de otros 12 idiomas. |
