Several databases are available as enrichment to your curriculum. These are exclusively for educators in addition to the databases that students may access.

Discovery Education Streaming
Sponsored by Discovery Education-- 4,000 full length videos and 40,000 video clips, images, articles, and historical events for each day of the year. See librarians for the passcode

ABC-CLIO Social Studies
Features for teachers include lesson plans, quiz makers, research topics, and correlations to TEKS.

Teaching Books
Numerous video interviews with authors, professional book readings, book guides, and links to author websites.

Annenberg Media
This site offers online professional development. All core subject areas are included.

Atomic Learning
Short online tutorials to help with software applications you are using. For first time users, your username is your entire email address and the initial password is klein.

To get started go to www.atomiclearning.com.
Download the "Getting Started Guide."

PBS Video (full length videos)
iCue (video clips from NBC News)
How Stuff Works (sponsored by the Discovery Channel)
Read.gov (created by the Library of Congress)
Shmoop.com (Study Guides for all subject areas)
Research and Documentation Online (User-friendly approach to MLA Citation Style)
Mythology Links (Collection of websites on mythology for teachers and students)
Ellis Island Virtual Tour (Includes questions that can be answered on a virtual tour)
Awesome Library Awesome Library contains information on a variety of topics for students and teachers.

Article Checker (Web-based plagiarism checker)
Advanced Plagiarism Checker (Web-based plagiarism checker)
Paper Rater (Web-based plagiarism checker)
Plagiarism Checker (Web-based plagiarism checker)

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