Social Studies

Databases

Access these tools with your library card number and PIN

World Book For Kids  World Book Online for Kids has easy-to-read articles, images, illustrations, interactive maps, and teacher resources.

Kid Infobits  Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.  The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines.

Daily Life Through History  This is a combination of three rich databases that provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students.

Websites

The Library of Congress Presents America’s Story from America’s Library  The Library of Congress offers images of primary source documents, prints, photographs, maps, recordings and other materials from the past.  

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage  Students and teachers can discover the contributions and rich heritage of Hispanics in the United States.

The Presidents of the United States of America  Provides biographical information and portraits of the Presidents of the United States.

Odyssey Online  Explores the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome and 19^th and 20^th Century Sub-Saharan Africa through museum objects, puzzles, worksheets and links to other websites and books.