*search district-wide catalog for texts and texts sets

*request ILL through your Teacher Librarian

*create a resource list of materials from district-wide libraries

*search resource lists created by others

*collaborate with your TL to gather materials to support your needs.

Kids InfoBits is a digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.

*Easy to search database

*Text to speech technology

*integrates with Google

*authoritative, multimedia reference and periodical content

*covers a range of the most-studied topics in social studies

*videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources and more

*translation tool

*Text to speech Technology

*integrates with Google

National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos, and images. High-quality informational texts are available for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English Language Arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

35+ ebooks that teach students the various steps and strategies for appropriate research.

Short video tutorials for students to learn how to research step-by-step.

Use this tool to create a bibliography or works cited page, a list of sources used for a research project, that follows the MLA 8th edition citation guidelines.

Newsela is a database of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. Arts, Science, Health), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level.

World Book Online is a suite of online research tools that includes age appropriate encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video.

Discovery Education offers standards-based digital content for K-12, including digital textbooks, multimedia content, videos and family resources.

*virtual field trips

*talks from guest speakers

*classroom to classroom connections

*live collaboration projects

*free resources to supplement curriculum

*social justice and anti-bias emphasis

*encourages students to challenge prejudice and be agents of change

*inform your practice to create civil and inclusive school communities

*learn about lives and cultures of people around the globe

*follow a journalist's trek around the globe

*trace the path of world explorers

*test geography skills

*create your own tour with tour builder

*take 3D tours of places you are studying

*use Google Expeditions to explore a virtual tour

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.

*free tours of museum exhibits for schools

*Traveling Trunk program-hands on lessons covering cultural groups and geographical locations of Oregon

*Digital history projects-online resources of Oregon history