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ABCMouse (Home Access)

A smiling cartoon mouse in a graduation cap and holding a diploma

With 3,500+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, this award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-8+).

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ABCMouse (In-Library Access)

ABCMouse.com

With 3,500+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, this award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-8+).

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APlusMath

Librarian Recommended Website

Interactive math resources with worksheets, games, flashcards, and more.

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Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids

Ben's Guide to US Government

Ben Franklin guides website visitors through the workings of the U.S. Government.

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Brainfuse - HelpNow

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Brainfuse offers live tutoring, skills building, foreign language lab, writing lab with live writing assistance, a test center offering practice quizzes for standardized tests, and much more.
 

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Create A Graph

Kids Zone

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) hosts a Kids' Zone that page allows users to create a printable graph using their own data. Choose from an area graph, a bar graph, a line graph, or a pie chart.

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Elementary (Gale in Context)

Elementary (Gale in Context)

Homework resources just for kids in grades K-5.

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Fact Monster

Librarian Recommended Website

Almanac, atlas, dictionary, & encyclopedia information for elementary & middle school students.
 

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Infoplease Almanac

Librarian Recommended Website

Over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history, as well as practice exercises.

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Kanopy Kids

Kanopy Kids

Kids streaming video from PBSKids, Highlights, Little Pim, and more. Checkouts from Kanopy Kids do not require Kanopy play credits.

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Khan Academy

Librarian Recommended Website

Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

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Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

Librarian Recommended Website

A list of current and past years' Maryland Black-Eyed Susan winners and honorees. This award is a student choice award for the State of Maryland chosen each year since 1992.

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Middle School (Gale in Context)

Middle School (Gale in Context)

General interest reference source with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.

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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids

Young students can find authoritative information from National Geographic Kids magazine, videos and photos. Topics include animals, science, social studies, history and more.

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NoveList K-8 Plus

Novelist K-8

Search for children's fiction and nonfiction titles by author, plot, read-alikes, curriculum, and more.

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Overdrive/Libby

Overdrive/Libby

Thousands of eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines are available to borrow right from your computer or mobile device. Download the Libby app or read on your Kindle.

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Science Buddies

Librarian Recommended Website

Provides help with finding ideas for science fair projects for all grade levels.

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EBSCO Discovery Service

Search through a comprehensive collection of content from many of our Library Exclusive resources. Includes subject indexes and access to full-text articles from thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers.