Library Services
Pasadena I.S.D.
1826 East Sam Houston Parkway South
Pasadena, TX 77503
713.740.0150
Fax 713.740.4030
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The following
Electronic Resources are available to all students and teachers in PISD. |
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AtomicLearning
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Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 100 applications students and educators use everyday. Our short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere training resource. | |||||||||||||
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BrainPOP PK-12 access search by TEKS
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BrainPOP en Español ofrece materias de ciencias, matemáticas, inglés, salud y tecnología que corresponden a las Normas Nacionales de Ciencias, Inglés y Matemáticas para los grados del tercero al octavo. Los temas contienen una Película Animada de 2 a 4 minutos de duración, un Cuestionario Interactivo, un Experimento, una Tira Cómica, una Sección de Consejos Prácticos, un Paseo por el Tiempo y un Crucigrama Imprimible. | ||||||||||||||
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BrainPOP Jr. provides educational movies for K-3 learners. The movies encourage active viewing and are easily paused for students to make predictions and form their own ideas. Each animated movie has leveled quizzes, games, activities, and lesson ideas that develop students' critical thinking and inquiry skills. Designed specifically for early learners, BrainPOP Jr. is easy to navigate and all the content is read aloud so young students can browse the site on their own. |
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EBSCO PK-12 access search by Lexile
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EBSCOhost Web Interface - Full-Text Periodical Databases (Lexile levels available) MAS Ultra – School Edition; Middle Search Plus; Primary Search; TOPICsearch) Offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially-designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries. |
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Student Research Center Interface - Full-Text Periodical Databases (Lexile level searching available) Makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. |
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Kids Search Interface - Full-Text Periodical Databases (Lexile level searching available) | ||||||||||||||
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Searchasaurus Interface – Elementary Interface (Lexile level searching available) A full text database for elementary school research and reading |
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Natural & Alternative Treatments - consists of over 550 articles as follows: 219 on Herbs and Supplements, 185 on Conditions, 100 on Drug Interaction, 29 on Alternative Therapies and 33 on Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. |
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Consumer Health Complete - convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. |
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NoveList (Available to Intermediate and High Schools) an online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested. Readers enter a title or author they like, or describe a book they would like to read, and NoveList finds books in its database with matching subject headings. | ||||||||||||||
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Literary Reference Center (Available to High Schools) a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes | ||||||||||||||
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition PK-12 access search by TEKS/TAKS |
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| Encyclopædia Britannica PK-2 Learning Zone |
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Play, discover, create - these are the cornerstones of learning for young children. Now, Encyclopædia Britannica gives teachers an online solution designed specifically for the needs of grades PK-2. |
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Encyclopædia Britannica Enciclopedia Gran Enciclopedia Planeta
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Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the cornerstone of the PlanetaSaber product, is the most comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia available today. It features 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. |
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| Encyclopædia Britannica Enciclopedia Juvenil |
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Encyclopædia Britannica Annals of American History
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An excellent resource for expanding your understanding of the history and culture of the United States. |
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| Encyclopædia Britannica Global Reference Center |
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An extensive collection of foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean Simplified Chinese, and French. It's an excellent resource for language students and native speakers alike. |
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Encyclopædia Britannica World Data Analyst
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Offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world and tools for making comparative charts and tables. |
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Encyclopædia Britannica Webster's Third New International Dictionary,
Unabridged Online
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The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary. |
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Facts On File On-Line PK-12 access
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American History Online - Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. |
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American Women's History Online - Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. | ||||||||||||||
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African-American History Online - Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. | ||||||||||||||
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American Indian History Online - Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage. | ||||||||||||||
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Ancient and Medieval History Online - Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia. | ||||||||||||||
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World Atlas - Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information. | ||||||||||||||
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Science Online - Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. | ||||||||||||||
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Health Reference Center - Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body. | ||||||||||||||
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Curriculum Resource Center - Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum. | ||||||||||||||
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Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition - Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material and other content geared for elementary-level students. | ||||||||||||||
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online - Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. | ||||||||||||||
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - Offers comprehensive career guidance through extensive job and industry profiles, career forecasting, and a monthly newsletter. | ||||||||||||||
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Personal & Business Forms - Provides printable forms for a wide range of personal, business, and government categories, including individual income taxes. | ||||||||||||||
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Gale
Intermediate search by Lexile |
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Custom Newspapers - an innovative Web-based, full-text newspaper database that lets you search newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields, eliminating random searches through newspaper archives for specific articles page after page |
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Student Resource Center - Gold - easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. |
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General One File - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily. |
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Student Resource Center - Junior - offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. For Middle Schools only. |
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Texas Almanac 2006-2007 - an electronic version of the Texas Almanac 2006 - 2007. This database provides information seekers with valuable information about the history, culture, political climate and geography of the state of Texas. |
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Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online - Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. |
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Grolier - Campus Access PK-12 access search by Lexile
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Grolier Online Passport - created for older students and adults, still provides quick and easy access your encyclopedia databases |
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Grolier Online Kids - created for younger students |
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Quick reference with rich media for middle school and higher |
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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre - Bienvenidos al sitio más completo para hispanohablantes y estudiantes de la lengua española (A comprehensive encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish language students) |
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The New Book of Popular Science - Science and technology, plus science in the news for middle and high schools |
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Lands and Peoples - An encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for middle and high schools |
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America the Beautiful - State-by-state history and current events for elementary and middle schools |
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| Grolier Online - Home Access |
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Secured Grolier passthrough site.
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netTrekker d.i. PK-12 access search by TEKS/TAKS
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The trusted search engine for schools, enhances teaching and learning by providing fast and easy access to more than 180,000 high quality, pre-screened, and educationally relevant K-12 online resources. These online resources also align with each state's academic standards and benchmarks and can be used in the classroom to stimulate instruction and learning. |
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ProQuest eLibrary
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Full-text documents and graphics. Resource pool updates daily, ensuring access to the very latest information. |
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ProQuest - SIRS Decades
High School
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SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. | |||||||||||||
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TeachingBooks.net PK-12 access |
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From one easy-to-use website, TeachingBooks makes instantly available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. Our hope is that by utilizing TeachingBooks' multimedia resources, educators will better understand the spirit and personality behind books and discover exciting ways to share these insights with children and teens. |
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Discovery Education streaming (unitedstreaming) PK-12 access search by TEKS/TAKS |
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A digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. |
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