At SHAHALA, in the Library and Computer Lab,
you should be able to get into these databases and search engines
for schoolwork by clicking these links or going through the Student Portal.
To be able to use these tools from home, some require passwords,
so please pick up a Password Bookmark
@ the school library.
DATABASES:
WorldBook On-Line Encyclopedia:
We are very excited that Evergreen Public Schools now has access to this amazing on-line tool to provide you with multiple sources, primary documents, videos, maps, and much much more. Check it out! http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home |
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Grolier Online: |
Online general encyclopedia |
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Proquest: |
Index of newspaper and magazine articles, etc. |
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eLibrary: |
Index for magazines, newspapers, etc. |
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CultureGrams: |
Geography source for countries and the US States |
SIRS DISCOVER: Research Database for students. HISTORY STUDY CENTER: A collection of primary and secondary global history sources, from ancient times to present day. |
Search Engines for Students
A major concern that teachers, parents, librarians, and school administrators have whenever their students search for information on the Internet is having the students stumble across inappropriate materials. One way to alleviate that fear is to create your own search engine using Google Custom Search, but that could become very time-consuming. Another option is to have students use search engines intended for academic and or child use. Here are three search engines for students of all ages.
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students). Famhoo is another option for kid friendly searches. Famhoo draws on the collective results of the major search mainstream search engines like Google, AOL, and Yahoo. Famhoo simply provides a stricter family filter than the filters available on mainstream search engines. Ask Kids is the kid friendly, kid safe version of the popular search engine Ask.com. Ask Kids is divided into five categories of which one is a general search option. The five categories are School House, movies, games, images, and video. The School House category provides students with suggested topics and links to resources for those topics. The School House also serves as a general search tool. In the other search categories Ask Kids makes suggestions for search refinement. A great aspect of the search results that Ask Kids provides is the option to refine searches based on a student's age.
