Homework Help

Online databases are an excellent resource for reports, reference, and for fun! They are an extension to the materials available at your school library. The databases are purchased by Heartland AEA and require a username and password that was given to your child at school. Your school may also have other databases that will help with homework--check your school's Web site for more information. You can search the databases individually or search them at the same time in Com Cat, http://comcat-agent.auto-graphics.com.

If you don't have Internet access at home, you might want to go to your local public library.

Elementary

AccuWeather
Find maps and track the weather in your town. Learn more about weather forecasting. It also has detailed information including forecasts and a climatological database.

AP Images
Find photographs and audio of real events and people from around the world to use in a report or a PowerPoint presentation. You can find photos of events that happened today.

Atomic Learning
Watch short videos on how to use technology. For example, learn how to add a video in PowerPoint, make a table in Microsoft Word, use an iPad, and more.

BookFLIX
These are ebooks that you can read, or have them read to you. You can watch the video of the book or read the book.

Britannica Online K-6
Using an encyclopedia for a report? Britannica was written just for students starting to do research. Includes lots of photos, maps, and videos.

Culture Grams 
Learn about people around the world and what their lives are like. Find customs, maps, songs, recipes, and interviews with kids. There is even information about the states.

Discovery Education Science K-8
You will find videos, activities, and games. Learn about penguins, plants, whales, habitats, rocks, space, oceans, birds, insects, ponds, and lots more.

iCLIPART for Schools
http://schools.iclipart.com
Add clipart or photos to a report. There are even videos and animations to add to a web page, wiki, or PowerPoint.

InfoTrac Junior (Gale)
Some 5th and 6th graders might want to use the database to find magazine and newspaper articles.

Kids InfoBits (Gale)
You can find information on just about any topic—whether it is for a report or just because you want to know more.

KidsSearch (EBSCO)
If you are writing a report or are curious about a topic, use this database.

Learn 360
Digital videos available for streaming or downloading. Some videos can be edited.

Learning Zone
This is just for kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. There are lots of games, activities, and videos to learn about animals, numbers, shapes, alphabet, and more.

netTrekker
Students can find great information and websites from the Internet. Start here to be sure you go to websites that are safe and are meant for elementary students.

NoveList K-8 Plus
Don’t know what to read next? Want to read more books just like the one you finished? It’s like having your own librarian show books you might be interested in reading next.

Soundzabound
Download music for a PowerPoint or a report. There are songs, sounds, sound effects, and instruments. You can also create a playlist.

TeachingBooks.net
Ever wonder what your favorite author looks or sounds like? Do you wish you could draw pictures like some of the famous illustrators? You can watch video interviews with authors and artists in their own homes or studios.

TrueFLIX

These are nonfiction ebooks (and video) targeted to readers in grades 3-6. They are interactive and help students understand how to read nonfiction text.

Secondary

EBOOKS!!! Just added February 2012. Full-text ebooks for grades 7-12 are now available. No special ereader is needed--works on any laptop, desktop computer, or mobile device with Internet access.

AccuWeather
Find maps and track the weather in your town. Learn more about weather forecasting. It also has detailed information including forecasts and a climatological database.

Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO)
This full-text database is for students taking AP classes: arts and music, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics and statistics, environmental science, government and politics, human geography, mathematics, physics, psychology, history.

American History in Video
This database includes videos and newsreels. A printed copy of the transcript is shown along side the video and is keyword searchable. Students can edit the videos and create playlists.

AP Images
Find photographs and audio of real events and people from around the world to use in a report or a PowerPoint presentation. You can find photos of events that happened today.
Historical and current photos, audio clips, and maps. Updated continuously from the Associated Press.

Atomic Learning
Watch short videos on how to use technology. For example, learn how to add a video in PowerPoint, make a table in Microsoft Word, use an iPad, and more.

Britannica Online
Online encyclopedia with videos, multlimedia, audio clips, maps, photos, primary source documents, and more.

Culture Grams 
Learn about people around the world and what their lives are like. Find customs, maps, songs, recipes, and interviews with kids. There is even information about the states.

Gale databases
Full text magazines, newspapers, and reference books. Available for middle and high school students. This is a list of all the Gale databases from which to choose.

General OneFile (Gale)  
Links to full-text.

History Reference Center (EBSCO)
This extensive full-text database includes reference books, nonfiction ebooks, history periodicals, historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos and maps, and video.

iCLIPART for Schools
Includes copyright-cleared illustrations, fonts, sounds, web graphics, animations, and video.

InfoTrac Newsstand
Full-text newspapers.

InfoTrac Student (Gale) 
Easy to-use-interface to magazines and newspapers.

Learn 360
Digital videos available for streaming or downloading. Some videos can be edited.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
This full-text database includes more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, classic and contemporary poems, short stories, author interviews, and classics in ebooks.

netTrekker
Find reviewed websites by grade level, subject, or topic.

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
Over 1,000 full-text newspapers, and television and radio news transcripts are included.

NoveList Plus (EBSCO)
Readers advisory tool for fiction and nonfiction. Get recommendations on what to read next.

Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO)
This database includes full-text essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Includes overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and critical thinking guide.

Science Reference Center (EBSCO)
It includes full-text magazines, reference books, encyclopedias, and other sources on biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, life science, science and society, science as inquiry, technology and wildlife.

SIRS Researcher
This database covers social issues. It includes full-text primary source documents, websites, images, multimedia, and other documents that represent various viewpoints.

Soundzabound
Royalty free music for podcasts, PowerPoint, videos, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, and more.

Student Research Center (EBSCO)  
Use this research tool to pre-determine content sources (magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, film and video) that will be included in the search. It’s searchable by topic.

TeachingBooks.net
One-of-a-kind author and artist/illustrator interviews about their craft. Book study guides.

Teen Health & Wellness
Provides information for teens on drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, relationships, safety, and more.

Updated 3/29/12