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Once you
select a database, you will be prompted for
your school name and password.
Please see the library media specialist
for this password.
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Books in
Print
- Bibliographic
web resource
features over 5
million book,
audiio book,
anad video
titles. Download
bibliographic
records.
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Business
Company Resource
Center
- Includes
company and
industry news,
company
profiles, brand
information,
rankings,
investment
reports, company
histories, and
chronologies.
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Community
Resource
Database of Long
Island
- 12,000 entries
of health and
human services
located
throughout
Nassau and
Suffolk
counties.
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Custom
Newspapers
- Contains 150
national and
international
newspapers with
full text
articles.
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EBSCO General
Science
Collection
- Provides
information on
all aspects of
the scientific
world and offers
full-text
coverage for
more than 60 of
the most popular
science
publications,
and Great
Scientific
Achievements of
the Twentieth
Century, a
multi-volume
encyclopedia
from Salem
Press.
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Education
Periodicals
- Search
professional
magazines and
periodicals
related to all
aspects of
education and
education-related
issues.
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ERIC
(Educational
Resources
Information
Center)
- Contains more
than one million
abstracts of
documents and
journal articles
on education
research and
practice.
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Gale Health
Reference Center
- Contains
articles on
fitness,
pregnancy,
medicine,
nutrition,
diseases, public
health,
occupational
health and
safety, alcohol
land drug abuse,
HMOs,
prescription
drugs, and many
more health
topics.
1980-Present
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Gale Virtual
Reference
Library
- Gale Virtual
Reference
Library is a
database of
encyclopedias,
almanacs, and
specialized
reference
sources for
multidisciplinary
research. These
reference
materials once
were accessible
only in the
library, but now
you can access
them online from
the library or
remotely 24/7.
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Health and
Wellness
Resource Center
- Magazines,
journals,
newspapers,
definitions,
directories, and
information on:
Fitness,
Pregnancy,
Medicine,
Nutrition,
Diseases, Public
Health,
Occupational
Health and
Safety, Alcohol
and Drug abuse,
Prescription
Drugs, Herbal
remedies, and
alternative or
complementary
treatments, etc.
for
informational
purposes only.
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Informe
- Spanish
language
database that
includes
magazine
articles,
periodicals and
full-text of El
Nuevo, a Florida
Spanish language
newspaper.
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InfoTrac
Junior Edition
- Contains
magazine
newspaper, and
reference book
articles (most
full-text) for
information on
current events,
the arts,
science, popular
culture, health,
people
government,
history, sports,
and more.
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MasterFile
Select
- Contains over
40,000 magazine
articles from
2,500 sources in
full text.
1990-Present
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National
Newspaper Index
- Provides quick
access to the
indexing of
America’s top
five newspapers
in one seamless
search: The New
York Times, The
Wall Street
Journal, The
Christian
Science Monitor,
Los Angeles
Times and The
Washing Post.
Index only, not
full text.
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New York
State Newspapers
- Full-text
articles from
ten major
newspapers
published in New
York State,
including the
New York Times,
and the New York
Post.
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Teaching
Books
- Links to
authors and
books for
children and
young adults.
Includes audio,
video and
written
interviews, and
activity guides.
Customizable in
Educator Area to
suit individual
teacher
interests and
needs through
unique login and
password
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ELA Review
Kids' Lab Grade 3
(main idea, compare/contrast, inferential
context clues)
Select the down arrow located under the
animated books graphic.
Kids' Lab Grade 1
Scroll down the page to the bottom where you
will find "reading comprehension" (select
main idea quizzes):
Zoom Week Reading Skills
Pennsylvania's State Assessments
PowerMedia Plus
Visit the
Language Arts Sections
Susan
Silverman |
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The
Big Six
http://www.big6.com
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Don't know
where to start? Read on!!
The Big Six
are the six basic steps in approaching and
successfully completing a research project.
- 1.
Define the task: What do I need to do?
- 2.
Information seeking strategies:
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A. What kind of information do I need?
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B. Where will I find the information?
- 3.
Locate and access information
- (i.e.,
Setauket Information Center, the Internet,
Emma Clark Library, textbooks, videos,
interviews, etc.)
- 4.
Use the information (read, hear, view, touch)
and extract relevant data from the sources
(take notes!).
- 5.
Synthesis: Organize information from
multiple sources
- and
present in logical format (essay, poster,
table,
- charts,
video, collage, etc.).
- 6.
Evaluation: Did you effectively and
efficiently solve
- the
task or problem?
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Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 14,000
carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent
in education.
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Blue
Web Award Sites
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/search.html
Sponsored by Pacific Bell, this website is searchable by
subject area, grade level, application, content area and
keyword.
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Education
Week on the Web
http://www.edweek.org/
Find the full text of Education Week and Teacher
Magazine here. Just might be what you need for
research in that graduate course.
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Educational
Standards & Curriculum Frameworks from New York
http://edStandards.org/Standards.html
Developing Educational Standards is an annotated
list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and
curriculum frameworks documents, maintained by Charles
Hill and the Putnam Valley Schools in New York
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Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
This is excellent site sponsored by Pacific Bell.
Filamentality
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ICONnect
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/index.html
Teachers can take advantage of online courses and
resources designed to teach about the Internet This
website is sponsored by the American Library Association.
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MarcoPolo
http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost,
standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and
classroom, developed by the nation's content experts, NCTM,
NCEE, NEH, American Association for the Advancement of
Science and National Geographic Society, among others.
Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites
in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson
plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily
classroom planning, and powerful search engines.
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Museums
Around the World
http://www.nma.gov.au/vlmp/world.html
The museums in this list are categorized by
country/continent. Museums in some are listed on
separate pages for space reasons.
In general, information and exhibits are in English unless
otherwise stated. This loads slowly, but be patient.
It's worth the wait!
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New
YorkTimes Online
http://nytimes.com/learning/
Includes daily lesson plans, archived lesson plans,
news summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day,
crossword, etc.
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NYSED
http://www.nysed.gov/
The home site of the New York State Education
Department, is searchable by topic.
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NYSUT
http://www.nysut.org/
The official homepage of the New York State United
Teachers, contains links to the State Ed. Department and
elected officials.
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Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html
A great site to find Internet resources to support the
curriculum. Organized by subject.
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Scholastic
Network
http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm
Contains lesson plans & reproducibles,
professional resources (teaching strategies, classroom
mgmt., etc.), authors & books, and much, much more.
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Using
Primary Sources
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/studqsts.html
This site gives basic questions for evaluating the quality
of primary sources.
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***Special
Education Links***
Center
for Effective Collaboration and Practice
http://cecp.air.org
focused on improving services to children and
youth with emotional and behavioral problems.
Inclusion...Yours,
Mine, Ours
http://rushservices.com/Inclusion/
Internet
Resources for Special Children (IRSC)
http://www.irsc.org/
School
Psychology Resources Online
http://www.schoolpsychology.net/
Research learning
disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment,
autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment,
special education, mental retardation, mental health, and
more.
Special
Needs Education (SNE) Project
http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne
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