A-Z Resources

Access Science - Covering all major scientific disciplines and contnuously reviewed and updated, a collection of articles from McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology.

Maps, charts, timelines and primary sources on African American History

Ben's Guide - Learn about Ben Franklin’s experiences as a printer, statesman, librarian and inventor.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States - For students and researchers, a select collection of primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

CIA World FactBook - The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

ConneCT kids portal to all things Connecticut.

CT State Library Research Resources for Elementary School

CT State Library Research Resources for Middle School

History Reference Center - Full-text database of U.S. and world history, featuring books, journals, biographies, primary source documents, and historical videos.

JSTOR - Search for articles in academic journals, images, letters, and primary sources.

Provides access to more than 12 million digitized scholarly journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 different disciplines.

Library of Congress Map Collection - A vast collection of maps curated and housed by the Library of Congress

National Geographic for Kids - Web companion to the popular kids magazine, this site has information, games, quizzes, videos and more.

National Inventors Hall of Fame - At home learning resources on inventors and inventions

Learn how to access digital media on Hoopla, Libby (OverDrive) and Kanopy. There are also tutorials for Consumer Reports, Tutor.com, Ancestry.com and many more online resources.

Research database containing informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,440 popular nonfiction books including high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics, and more.

Novelist Plus contains reviews of both fiction and nonfiction, plot summaries, book discussion guides, and recommendations.

Ology - The American Museum of Natural History’s kid site- with games, quizzes and tons of info.

Magazines for elementary school