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Find facts from magazines, encyclopedias, books and other reliable sources that have been checked by experts. Get information about your favorite author or find a new one to read. Find science experiments & learn research skills. Read a play together! It's all here for you.
Learn about cultures and countries around the world. (Grades 3-12)
Articles and eBooks that are good for homework and when you want to explore ideas. Search them by keyword. (Grades 3-9)
Explore the issues with facts, pro-and-con arguments, and sources from newspaper articles to scholarly journals. (Grades 6+)
Short video modules, with transcripts, teach research skills, fact-finding, critical thinking and how to cite your sources. Great for report writers. (Grades 8+)
Search this library for information from reliable sources. You can use the advanced search to choose what kind of sources you want, such as primary sources or sources from scholarly journals. (Grades 6+)
eBooks for homework and learning, that you can search by subject. These books help students in English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology. (Grades 9+, and educators.)
For students in elementary, middle, or high school. Britannica School Edition helps students succeed in their schoolwork by providing encyclopedia articles and multimedia resources including images, videos, audio, and detailed maps.
Students may read the articles or listen to an audio version by using a simple tool. For report-writers who must cite their sources, there is a tool as well.
And if Spanish is a language you use, or are learning, you may like the version available below.
Un recurso digital en español que ayuda a enriquecer el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de primaria y secundaria, Britannica Escolar hace posible que los estudiantes completen sus trabajos escolares usando artículos de las enciclopedias y recursos multimedia que incluyen imágenes, videos, audio y mapas detallados.
Los estudiantes pueden leer los artículos o escuchar una versión de audio usando una herramienta simple. Para aquellos que escriben informes que deben citar sus fuentes, también se proporciona una herramienta.
Tambien, Britannica tiene funciones de accesibilidad para personas con discapacidades.
Book Connections is an especially good tool for teachers, curious readers, and homeschooling families.
It’s packed with interesting extras to go with books for all ages, from preschool to high school. Kids use it to find out about great reads, too.
Students, teachers, and families can learn more about the books they read. Find author and illustrator talks, interesting facts about books and their authors, read-alongs, reader’s theater scripts, lesson plans, and more.
Book Connections offers diverse points of view, subjects, and modes of access.
Please note, while Book Connections offers some complete books, in most cases you’ll need to find the actual book in the library catalog or as an eBook.
The library strives to find the best and most accessible sources, but some functions of these databases may not work for every user.
If you can't get the information you need in a format that works for you, library staff stand ready to work with you get it in a format you can use.
The databases also offer help and how-to from their own support staff. Links to that help are on this page.
California offers — at no cost to local schools, districts or students — access to online educational content from ProQuest and TeachingBooks for use by every public K-12 school and student in the state.
These content resources, sometimes referred to as 'library databases,' provide teachers, school librarians and students with a massive amount of digital information: magazines, books, scientific research, newspaper articles, photos, videos and more — all aligned with the standards that California has created for its schools.
Go to California Fact Cards Database
This database offers useful facts about California history, helpful for students of all ages. Topics include:
When you open an Explora document you will see speech and language tools at the top.
Use the text-to-speech tool if you like to hear the words as you read them.
Use the translation tool to read in another language.
Explora can also be searched by Lexile score for your reading level. Look on the left menu after you search for a topic to narrow by lexile level.