Student Databases:
The district has provided our middle-school students with access to databases, which will greatly aid in the quality of their research. These sites can be accessed both in school and, remotely, at home. Please see Mrs. Metz for passwords.
EBSCO database
New Jersey provides 24/7 access to live librarian assistance. During daytime hours you can phone your local or state librarian. However, from 9 pm till 9 am, you can connect, by your browser, sign-in with little information and no fee, and begin to live-chat with a reference librarian, by typing on the screen. The biggest advantage to using QandANJ.org is that due to copyright laws, popular search engines cannot search subscription-based sites, but public libraries subscribe to powerful databases and are most happy to share that information with students and parents alike.
Students' search tools:
CLUSTY is a search site powered by Vivismo that clusters and organizes similar results and groups them together. For example, a search for "pearl" organizes the top 250-500 results into subject folders such as Jewelry, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Jam, Steinbeck novels and Daniel Pearl.
What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia? Factbites is a new way to search the Web, which avoids spewing out meaningless site names and mangled phrases. Factbites offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic.
| Fact Monster | New Jersey Statewide Reference Center |
| Internet Detectives | Internet
Public Library Teenspace |
| Yahooligans | Ask Jeeves for kids |
Time
for Kids
offers age-appropriate
news stories, some written by student reporters.
Scholastic
News for Kids
posts a top news story
each day. Through an affiliation with
MSNBC.com the site offers a
vast array of interactive content including maps and other aids.
Wall Street Journal On the Web - Classroom Edition
Online
NewsHour Extra: News for Students
utilizes the resources of
"NewsHour with Jim Leher" to explain broad issues in the news
New
York Times Upfront Magazine
publishes many of the
news articles found in the biweekly print version of this news magazine for
teens
CNN
Student News
publishes news stories
written by CNN journalists along with the help of teachers
Links to literature
Teen Link for teen readers (New York Public Library)
http://teenlink.nypl.org/
Teen Reads Authors
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/index.asp
The Writers' Almanac
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
| On-lion for Kids (New York Public Library) | A Girl's World Online Clubhouse |
Islamic traditions and Muslim Culture |
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Women of NASA |
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