Destiny OPAC

(on-line public access catalog)

• Tippit Library online catalog

• Access to all GISD catalogs

• Accessible from home

• Includes web links for safe searching

• Log in to post book reviews, place holds, and view your personal library account

• Search engine for schools

• Standards-based

• Readability levels

• Authoritative and current

K-12 Database Program
Resources provided through the

State of Texas

•  Primary and Secondary

•  Professional

•  Britannica and EBSCO

Citation Maker - Secondary

Sweet Search for Students

•  Online catalog and Interlibrary loan (ILL)

• Online encyclopedia

• Includes atlas and dictionary

• Texas guide

• Teacher tools

• Includes Living Green database
   

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

• Growing Up with Science

• Peoples of Europe

• Online encyclopedias for elementary, middle and high school

• Subject integrated websites

• Journals and magazines

• Teacher resources

• Training for teachers

• Spanish Online encyclopedia--3 levels

• Subject-integrated websites

• State standards search

• Search periodicals, encyclopedias, primary sources, country reports, and other resources

• Searchasaurus for elementary

• Kids Search for Kinder thru 5th grade

• Student Resource Center for grades 6 thru 12

• Part of the State of Texas' K-12 Database Program

Atlas powered by Google Maps

DK Clip Art

Create your own word "cloud."

• Based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.

• On-line collection of read-along titles

• Elementary, middle school, high school

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

• For teachers, parents, and students

• WebPath Express is imbedded in the Tippit Library OPAC

• Reviewed websites for safer, authoritative searches

• Enter above through Destiny

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

NEWSEUM:
world's most interactive museum

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

University of North Texas'

Portal to Texas History

• Texas history collections organized by theme

• Texas history snapshots

• Primary source materials

• Educator resources and lesson plans

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

Thinkfinity.org

• For educators, families, and students

• Lesson plans, interactive games, professional development, and other on-line resources

• Primary source materials

• K-12 standards based

• up-to-date, authoritative resources

• Online access to Texas' historical documents and images for educational purposes

Smithsonian Source

•  Resources for teaching American History

•  Primary source materials

•  Historical topic search

• For educators, families, and students
• Lesson plans for art, language arts, history, science
• "Field trips" worksheets

• Promoting geography awareness for teachers, parents, kids, and teens

•  Maps

•  Country profiles

•  Interactive

• Online speech bank

• Includes top 100 speeches and famous speeches from the movies

• This Day in History

• Highlights world events

COUNTRY PROFILES

•  History

•  Politics

•  Economics

• Historical documents

• Military and immigration records

• Family history

National Archives
Digital Vault

• Primary records
• "Create" your own movie or pathway challenge
• Copyright friendly

• The Library of Congress' American Memory Collection

 
Encyclopedia of Life
Dedicated to documenting information on ALL species of life on Earth

Digital Knowledge Central

(DKC)

• Another entry point into the State of Texas' student databases

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

• Links to Big6© Resource Center, educational standards, maps

National Gallery of Writing

• Up-to-date information on countries

• Statistics

• Creates tables and charts