Destiny
 

•  Benold Library online catalog

•  GISD Union catalog

•  Accessible from home

•  Includes web links for safe searching

•  search engine for schools

•  differentiated instruction

•  standards-based

•  readability levels

K-12 Database Program
Resources provided through the State of Texas

•  Primary

•  Secondary

•  Professional

•  Online catalog and Interlibrary loan

•  Online encyclopedia

•  Includes atlas and dictionary

•  Texas guide

•  Teacher tools
   

•  Digital reference databases featuring high quality science and social studies resources.

•  Online encyclopedia--3 levels

•  Subject integrated websites

•  Journals and magazines

•  Teacher resources

•  Training for teachers

Atlas powered by Google Maps

•  Click the button within the map that reads "Satellite" or "Hybrid"
•  Use the tools in the upper left corner of the map

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  • Spanish Online encyclopedia--3 levels
  • Subject integrated websites
  • State standards search

•  Largest and most comprehensive American dictionary
•  Multiple searches including word histories, examples of usage, and rhymes

•  Timeline

•  Primary sources

•  Up-to-date information on countries

•  Statistics

•  Creates tables and charts

•  WebPath Express is imbedded in the Benold Library OPAC

•  Reviewed websites for safer, authoritative searches

•  Enter above through Destiny

•  TeachingBooks.net is a diverse and constantly growing online collection of author programs and K-12 book-related materials.
•  Teachers, parents, students

•  Discovery Education DEstreaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service.

•  global teaching and learning project

•  BrainPop is short teaching videos for Language arts, math, social studies, science, health, and fine arts.

Create your own "word cloud."

•  online access to Texas' historical documents and images for education purposes

Smithsonian Source

•  Resources for teaching American History

•  Primary resources

•  DBQs

•  Texas State Historical Society Online: a digital
  gateway to Texas history

•  animations, primary documents, photos, and videos

•  subject map to search by curriculum area

•  Free resources and lesson plans for educators

•  Learning games and online homework help for students

•  Resources for parents

•  for educators, families, and students
•  lesson plans for art, language arts, history, science
•  "field trips"--worksheets

Teacher's Page
American Memory
America's Library
American Folklife Center
Prints and Photography
Veterans' History Project
Poetry Page
Wise Guide

NEWSEUM:
world's most interactive museum

•  view headline news from around the U.S. and the world

•  This Day in History

•  Highlights the great events of history

• Online speech bank

•  maps
•  country profiles
•  interactive

COUNTRY PROFILES

•  history

•  politics

•  economics

•  historical documents

•  military records

•  immigration records

•  family history

•  The Library of Congress: American Memory
•  Primary sources

National Archives
Digital Vault

•  Primary records
•  "Create" feature
•  Copyright friendly

Digital Knowledge Central
 

•  Database links to NewsBank, Ebsco, Britannica, KidsPage includes newspapers, periodicals, primary sources

•  Links to Big6© Resource Center, Educational Standards, Maps

                  
Encyclopedia of Life
A collaborative website dedicated to documenting all species of life