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Applications and Skills
Google Earth [|Using Primary Source Documents]
 * [|Library of Congress]
 * [|National Archives]
 * [|Questions to Ask]
 * [|Article and Worksheets]

Primary Source Information Discovery Streaming - search on ATLAS

Websites
[|National Council for Social Studies] [|Thinkfinity] News Sites [|Library of Congress] [|Census Information] [|Online and Printable Maps] [|ICue] [|I Debate] [|Conversations with History] [|Statistical Resources on the Web] [|Teaching History With Technology] [|Best of History Websites] [|Gapminder] [|Show World - World] [|Show World - USA] [|Best Online Interactive Museums]

Web 2.0 Tools
Google Docs Wikis Interactive Timelines
 * (There are timelines in Nettrekker.)
 * [|Timetoast]
 * [|Xtimeline]
 * [|Read, Write, Think]

Power Library Databases
AP Images More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.

Biography Reference Bank Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.Middle Search Plus Suggested for middle and junior high research, full text information is available from more than 150 magazines – some from as far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile.)

Facts for Learning The Elementary School Module teaches younger students how to ask questions, use core reference resources, understand indexes, choose research topics, search online, and read charts and graphs. The Middle School Module provides content written for students in grades 5-8 and is designed for students able to use a more sophisticated format.

SIRSDiscoverer Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level –Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness, educational content, interest and reading level. This database is an excellent student resource.

Book Collection: Nonfiction A research database containing full text and abstracts for 1000 popular nonfiction books. Full text articles on literature, social studies, history and science are available and career, health, sports, adventure and technology information is also included.

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Over 25,000 encyclopedia entries are provided.

History Reference Center History Reference Center is a history reference database that features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, full text for nearly 60 leading history periodicals, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps and 87 hours of historical film and video.

Oxford Reference Online Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions. Bilingual dictionaries provided in English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, and English/Italian.

Dartclix Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research in public and academic libraries. The DartClix records containing multiple fields are loaded into the Access PA Database where they may be searched, and then link users to the websites.

Student Research Center (6-12) The Student Research Center (SRC) is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search.