PAC (Public Access Catalog) is the ultimate resource allowing students to search all of the media center materials at Lake Elkhorn Middle School and any other school in the HCPSS (Howard County Public School System) community.
Howard County Library (HCPL) databases and much more, you must have a library card number and PIN number to enter.
Ask us now! info experts 24/7, Librarians provide answers to questions, research guidance and help navigating the internet.
Tutor.com Free homework help online from real tutors. This site is sponsored by the Howard County Public Library, available everyday from 2:00 PM - Midnight.
Kids.gov a safe place to learn and play. Chemistry for kids 6-8, learn stuff, play games and watch videos.
The Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American History From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. Integrating American politics, science, culture, philosophy, and economics, this authoritative database explores the ongoing development of the United States. American Government contains nearly 15,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and court documents, photos, maps, audio/video clips, statistics, and more.
CultureGrams offers up-to-date country information on over 200 cultures of the world. It gives facts, as well as providing an inside look at daily life, customs, and lifestyles of people living across the world. See your school library media specialist for log in and password information.
The History Place This site assorted exhibits concerning US history. You'll find time lines of WWII and the Civil War, a chronological of the American Revolution, a featured speech, photo and a list of historically related sites. New materials are entered often so check back frequently.
History Reference Center Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and illustrations can be found in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, and links to quality web sites.
Science in Context curriculum-oriented science database that provides a resource for all science related research needs.
Science Reference Center Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and illustrations can be found in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, and links to quality web sites.
SIRS Decades more than 5,000 selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th century America.
SIRS Discoverer offers a database of full-text articles. This full-text article database consists of articles reprinted with permission. from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and US government documents. Additionally this site includes: The World Almanac for Kids. Compton's Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month. This site is useful for exploring current events.
TeachingBooks "sharing the spirit of books and reading." This site features thousands of book-related resources you can use to explore children and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials; short movies, audio book readings, book discussions guides and much more.
World Book Online an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. It offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, websites, and other print articles.
NoodleTools/Noodlebib6 MLA Work Cited or APA References styles, assist students in compiling and generating bibliographies.If you have not used this site before see your library media specialist, she will guide you through setting up an account.
ikeepbookmarks use this site to access websites used in the classroom and computer labs.
See your school library media specialist for log in and password information.
Math Websites:
Khan Academy: Hundreds of math tutorials, practice sessions and coaching.
MathCounts: a national enrichment, coaching and competition program for middle school mathematics.
Online Conversion: Convert about anything to anything else.
Metasearch Search Engines: These are search engines that search other search engine. The best results are given when the search term is inclosed with quotes, i.e. "mobile platforms". Also use the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT, to expand or narrow a search. The operators AND and NOT narrows a search. The operator OR expands a search. Searches that use these operators, such as between keywords, tend to produce a relevant and manageable list of hits. Most search engines include images, video, news, business and people.
Dogpile This search engine produces simple results.
InfoSpace Searches all of the major engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
Internet Public Library(ipl2) The best public library on the Internet. This site is designed for everybody but it has an informative kidspace and a teenspace. The site features directories of online texts, graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, reference materials.
MetaCrawler Searches all the major search engines. The left sidebar clusters results to narrow search.
Yippy Search results are put into clusters on the sidebar on the left.
Careers
Index of American Universities
Howard County Library (HCPL) databases and much more, you must have a library card number and PIN number to enter.
Ask us now! info experts 24/7, Librarians provide answers to questions, research guidance and help navigating the internet.
Tutor.com Free homework help online from real tutors. This site is sponsored by the Howard County Public Library, available everyday from 2:00 PM - Midnight.
Kids.gov a safe place to learn and play. Chemistry for kids 6-8, learn stuff, play games and watch videos.
The Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.
American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American History From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. Integrating American politics, science, culture, philosophy, and economics, this authoritative database explores the ongoing development of the United States. American Government contains nearly 15,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and court documents, photos, maps, audio/video clips, statistics, and more.
CultureGrams offers up-to-date country information on over 200 cultures of the world. It gives facts, as well as providing an inside look at daily life, customs, and lifestyles of people living across the world. See your school library media specialist for log in and password information.
The History Place This site assorted exhibits concerning US history. You'll find time lines of WWII and the Civil War, a chronological of the American Revolution, a featured speech, photo and a list of historically related sites. New materials are entered often so check back frequently.
History Reference Center Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and illustrations can be found in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, and links to quality web sites.
Science in Context curriculum-oriented science database that provides a resource for all science related research needs.
Science Reference Center Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and illustrations can be found in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, and links to quality web sites.
SIRS Decades more than 5,000 selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th century America.
SIRS Discoverer offers a database of full-text articles. This full-text article database consists of articles reprinted with permission. from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and US government documents. Additionally this site includes: The World Almanac for Kids. Compton's Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month. This site is useful for exploring current events.
TeachingBooks "sharing the spirit of books and reading." This site features thousands of book-related resources you can use to explore children and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials; short movies, audio book readings, book discussions guides and much more.
World Book Online an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. It offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, websites, and other print articles.
NoodleTools/Noodlebib6 MLA Work Cited or APA References styles, assist students in compiling and generating bibliographies.If you have not used this site before see your library media specialist, she will guide you through setting up an account.
ikeepbookmarks use this site to access websites used in the classroom and computer labs.
See your school library media specialist for log in and password information.
Math Websites:
Khan Academy: Hundreds of math tutorials, practice sessions and coaching.
MathCounts: a national enrichment, coaching and competition program for middle school mathematics.
Online Conversion: Convert about anything to anything else.
Metasearch Search Engines: These are search engines that search other search engine. The best results are given when the search term is inclosed with quotes, i.e. "mobile platforms". Also use the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT, to expand or narrow a search. The operators AND and NOT narrows a search. The operator OR expands a search. Searches that use these operators, such as between keywords, tend to produce a relevant and manageable list of hits. Most search engines include images, video, news, business and people.
Dogpile This search engine produces simple results.
InfoSpace Searches all of the major engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
Internet Public Library(ipl2) The best public library on the Internet. This site is designed for everybody but it has an informative kidspace and a teenspace. The site features directories of online texts, graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, reference materials.
MetaCrawler Searches all the major search engines. The left sidebar clusters results to narrow search.
Yippy Search results are put into clusters on the sidebar on the left.
Careers
Index of American Universities