LibGuides: K-12 Databases and Search Engines: K-12 Databases

K-12 Databases

ELM
ELM is the Electronic Library for Minnesota and includes research databases and resources for elementary, middle school, and high school students.

Britannica Online Library Kids Edition This link opens in a new window
Access to both Compton's and Britannica Elementary (Student) Encyclopedias plus a dictionary, world atlas, timelines, biographies, learning materials, tutorials, video clips, and more.
Explora Kids This link opens in a new window
Contains elementary school-appropriate magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and images. Includes Primary Search and Middle Search Plus databases.
Explora Teens This link opens in a new window
Contains middle and high school-appropriate magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles and also includes primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia.
Gale In Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines. Provides more than full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles
Coverage includes: America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc.
Middle Search Plus - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
PebbleGo & PebbleGoNext This link opens in a new window
A curricular content hub specifically designed for K-5 students. Informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports including read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.

K-12 E-Books

Blackbirch Kids Visual Reference of the World
ISBN: 9781410304827
Publication Date: 2002
An alphabetical presentation of brief statistics, maps, and pictorial information about every country in the world. Coverage includes geography, industry, population, ethnic groups, climate, religion, education, and daily life. Includes a special section of political, topographical, and thematic world maps.

eBooks Minnesota This link opens in a new window
The collection is accessible online at EbooksMN.org and via free apps from iTunes, Google Play, and Kindle. Ebooks Minnesota is open to all individuals and libraries within Minnesota’s borders. Contains more than 3,800 books, including titles Minnesota publishers.