Digital Resources - Bethlehem Central School District

Encyclopedias

Grolier Online includes three encyclopedias, from lowest to highest reading level: The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, and Encyclopedia Americana.
World Book includes three levels: Kids, Students, and Advanced.

EBSCOhost includes Middle Search Plus (middle school age magazines), TOPICsearch, Newspaper Source, Health Source – Consumer Edition, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Teacher Reference Center, ERIC, and Professional Development Collection.
Gale Power Search allows users to a wide variety of Gale databases that include magazines, newspapers, and other media in many subject areas.
eLibrary Elementary is a colorful, easy-to-use tool to search 130 magazines, newspapers, books, maps, images, web links, transcripts, and audio/video titles.
KidsInfoBits is a user-friendly interface of searchable content including books, magazines, news, and more than 13,000 images.

American History is a comprehensive database including reference articles, essays, biographies, images, political cartoons, speeches, letters and narratives and government documents.
America the Beautiful (Grolier) covers state-by-state history and current events for elementary-school and middle-school students.
Lands and Peoples (Grolier) is a resource on countries, cultures, and current events, including an encyclopedia, atlas, culture-cross (interactive comparison among nations), almanac, world newspapers, and a Passport to Fun section.
US History Collection (Gale) offers a selection of journals on US history for both the student and the academic researcher.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers current social issues for the student researcher. It features pro/con essays, topic overviews, periodical articles, biographies, primary documents, images, and more.

NoveList K-8 Plus is a comprehensive reading resource for fiction and nonfiction. Search by author, title, series, genre, and other terms, Find author and title read-alikes, ready-made reading lists on different topics, and award-winning books. Create your own customized reading lists.
TeachingBooks.net includes thousands of resources about K-12 fiction and nonfiction books, with links to author information and interviews, book trailers, audio extracts, reading guides and lesson plans, and Meet the Author movies/slideshows. Create your own customized reading lists.

General Science Collection (Gale) allows students to search more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals to help them learn about the lastest developments in science.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) provides full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
Living Green (Click World Book) is an online, interactive database that explores the impact of modern living on the environment.
Teen Health & Wellness provides information on diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, bullying, green living, financial literacy, digital literacy, and more.

Career Cruising is a comprehensive career guide. Students can match their interests to careers, explore a wide variety of occupational fields, and find schools that provide training for entry into these careers.

BrainPOP includes hundreds of animated video clips in all curriculum areas, accompanied by supplemental activities. Excellent resource for differentiated learning.

Biography in Context includes 600,000+ biographical entries on noted figures — alive and deceased — in all endeavors. Sources for information include Gale reference materials, as well as videos, images, magazines, newspapers, and more.