Middle School Research

These sites are available from any student home computer with the username and password.

General Research: Google

Database

Middle School Comptons/Britannica

You can search the chosen encyclopedia as well as magazines, Web sites, and videos. You can also explore Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features.

Britannica All Levels

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites — all at the appropriate grade level.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Use this database to search for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

Junior Reference Collection
The following references are in the Junior Reference Collection: 8,000 essays, over 8,500 photographs and illustrations, over 5,000 Timeline Events, more than 50 audio and video files, 3,000 biographies, 3,000 topic overview.

Discovering Collection
Provides in-depth content for five core curriculum areas, specifically literature, history, biography, science, and social studies. The Discovering Collection is aimed at grades 6-12 and contains all the content in Junior Reference Collection plus the DISCovering products to offer thousands of overview essays, literary criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, and over 15,000 maps, images, and flags.

Country Watch
CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.

ProQuest Newsstand Complete
ProQuest Newsstand Complete is an accessible and thorough Web-based database with citations and abstracts from over 350 newspapers, over 250 of which provide full text, enabling users to search the latest news from around the world. Coverage, updated daily, of local, state, regional, national, and international newspapers is available, including full-text access to 27 major newspapers: the Star Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Barron’s, and USA Today, to name just a few. Access a wide range of articles, not only top news stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well.