Draper Middle School Library

Ancient/Medieval Era

Ranging from the dawn of prehistory, through the great ancient empires, to the beginning of the Renaissance, this unique online resource explores history in every corner of the globe.

Levels: High School Subjects: Social Studies

Banco de Continedos aula Planeta

Levels: Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Biography Reference Bank (Formerly H.W. Wilson)

This biographical database offers the in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides full-text articles, images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.

Subjects: General

BrainPOP

Videos, activities and games covering: science, social studies, english, math, engineering & tech, health, arts and music.

Levels: Elementary School Subjects: Social Studies

BrainPOP ELL

Videos, activities and games designed for designed for all English Language Learners.

Levels: Elementary School

BrainPop Espanol

Videos, actividades y juegos que abarcan: ciencias, estudios sociales, Inglés, matemáticas, ingeniería y tecnología, salud, artes y música.

Levels: Elementary School

BrainPop Francais

Online animation films, real teaching tools, grouped into the categories: Sciences, Human body, Techno & Engineering, Social Sciences / History-Geo-Civic Education, Art and Music, Math and French.

Levels: Elementary School

BrainPOP Junior

Videos, activities and games covering: science, social studies, english, math, engineering & tech, health, arts and music.

Levels: Primary Subjects: Social Studies

Britannica Academic

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General

Britannica Escolar

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General

Britannica School

General reference resource for multiple age groups.

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General

Business Insights

Subjects: General

Colonial America

Subjects: General

Diseases & Disorders

EdPuzzle

Levels: Primary, Elementary School, Middle School, High School Subjects: Specialized

Epoint Plus

Levels: Primary, Elementary School, Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Facts About Drugs

Subjects: General

Flocabulary

Subjects: General

Gale Academic OneFile Select with Subject Collections

Resource for academic research includes scholarly journals and selected general interest titles in a wide variety of subjects.

Levels: High School Subjects: Specialized

Gale Academic OneFile with Subject Collections

Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.

Gale In Context: Elementary

Formerly Kids InfoBits A general reference resource for primary and elementary.

Levels: Primary Subjects: General

Gale in Context: Middle School

Created for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines Gale reference content with age-appropriate videos, periodicals, primary sources, and more

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General, Social Studies, ELA, Science

Gale NovelNY Databases

Gale resource portal.

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General

Gale OneFile: Computer Science

Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.

Levels: High School, Professional Subjects: Specialized

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete

Resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.

Levels: Professional Subjects: Specialized

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.

Levels: High School, Professional Subjects: Specialized

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico

Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.

Levels: Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Gale OneFile: News

This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.

Levels: Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Gale PowerSearch

Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.

Levels: Middle School Subjects: General

Gale: Opposing Viewpoints

Facts and arguments on current events topics and social issues.

Levels: High School Subjects: Social Studies

Gods Goddesses and Mythology

Subjects: General

Health Source

Lightbox K-12

Levels: Primary, Elementary School, Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Middle Search Plus

New York Times

A subset of Gale OneFile: News, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.

Levels: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Newsbank

Subjects: General

Newsela ELA

Deliver the context and relevance your ELA curriculum has been missing, with real-world, standards-aligned, leveled texts in 20+ genres that let you create engaging ELA lessons while delivering the skills, background knowledge and vocabulary students need. Non-fiction articles with 5 reading levels, with comprehension quizzes. Site adjusts reading level for each student. Upgrades Newsela Essentials with more ELA content such as Novel Studies, fiction, vocab tools, and NYS standards-aligned content. (You do not need both ELA and Essentials)

Subjects: General

Newsomatic

Levels: Elementary School, Middle School Subjects: General

Newspaper Source

Noodle Tools

An online research tool to track your sources, take notes, create outlines, collaborate with classmates, and format and print your bibliography.

Levels: Middle School, High School Subjects: General

Novelist

A database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

Levels: High School, Professional Subjects: Specialized

Rosen Learning Center

Levels: Elementary School Subjects: Social Studies

Sooth.fyi

Sooth is a curated search engine optimized for students and knowledge professionals. We’ve built a proprietary search index comprised solely of expert content from across the web covering a range of important global topics. Accelerate your knowledge search.

Subjects: General