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Shaker Middle School Library

Access World News
American History A bibliographic resource that provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada
Ancient and Medieval World
Book Creator
BrainPOP Videos, activities and games covering: science, social studies, english, math, engineering & tech, health, arts and music.
BrainPOP ELL Videos, activities and games designed for designed for all English Language Learners.
Britannica Academic
Britannica Escolar
Britannica School General reference resource for multiple age groups.
Business Insights
Culture Grams Concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos Beginner’s Spanish language general reference tool.
Epoint Plus
Exploring Technology
FabMaker Studio Easy-to-use, web-based program that invites students to experience STEM and STEAM learning in an engaging, personally meaningful way.
FactCite Access to all of your FactCite subscriptions.
FactCite American History Articles on people, places, and events in American History.
FactCite Biography for Beginners Biographies of famous people from around the world.
FactCite Countries and Cultures Comprehensive coverage of the countries of the world, illustrated. Supports research for country reports and activities such as Model UN and debate. Sections include curated weblinks for further study.
FactCite Defining Moments
FactCite Essential Information Covers most areas of the curriculum, including world and American literature, world and American history, government and government documents, physical sciences, biology, social science, and countries of the world.
FactCite Mythology Greek and Roman gods, goddesses, heroes, places, and other aspects of Greek and Roman mythology.
FactCite Shapers of Society Biographies of men and women, past and present, from around the world, who influenced the progress of civilization.
FactCite: Science and Technology Illustrated coverage of the Elements, Planets, Ecosystems, Animals, and Plants. For grades 4 to 9.
FactCite: US & World Biographies
Flocabulary
Gale Academic OneFile Select with Subject Collections Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.
Gale Academic OneFile with Subject Collections Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Gale In Context: Elementary Formerly Kids InfoBits A general reference resource for primary and elementary.
Gale in Context: Middle School Created for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines Gale reference content with age-appropriate videos, periodicals, primary sources, and more
Gale NovelNY Databases Gale resource portal.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete Resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
Gale OneFile: News This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.
Gale PowerSearch Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.
Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Facts and arguments on current events topics and social issues.
Growing Up With Science
Habitats of the World
Health Source
LessonPix
Lightbox K-12
Middle Search Plus
New York Times A subset of Gale OneFile: News, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.
Newsbank
Newsela ELA Deliver the context and relevance your ELA curriculum has been missing, with real-world, standards-aligned, leveled texts in 20+ genres that let you create engaging ELA lessons while delivering the skills, background knowledge and vocabulary students need. Non-fiction articles with 5 reading levels, with comprehension quizzes. Site adjusts reading level for each student. Upgrades Newsela Essentials with more ELA content such as Novel Studies, fiction, vocab tools, and NYS standards-aligned content. (You do not need both ELA and Essentials)
Newsomatic
Newspaper Source
Noodle Tools An online research tool to track your sources, take notes, create outlines, collaborate with classmates, and format and print your bibliography.
Novelist A database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.
Read & Write
Rosen Learning Center
Sooth.fyi Sooth is a curated search engine optimized for students and knowledge professionals. We’ve built a proprietary search index comprised solely of expert content from across the web covering a range of important global topics. Accelerate your knowledge search.
Soundzabound Soundzabound royalty free music.
Sports Champions Biographies of more than 700 great sports champions in 50 sports, past and present.
Teacher Ebooks Professional Education Ebooks purchased by the Genesee Region Teacher Center.
Teaching Books Discover online multimedia resources. Bring books and authors to life.
Teen Health and Wellness Nonjudgmental, straightforward info for middle and high school covering diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy, and more.
TOPICsearch
World Book
World Book Advanced High school reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
World Book Kids Online general resource developed especially for young students.
World Book Student Elementary and middle school general reference resource.

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