Hudson Falls Middle School Databases

ABC-CLIO Databases Authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring, significant, and timely issues
ABC-CLIO United States Geography From ABC-CLIO, this interactive database offers teachers, librarians, and students a combination of authoritative research sources, standards-aligned lessons and activities, and engaging features on all 50 United States.
Access World News
American Government Connects contemporary issues with the foundations of government and compares the political and economic systems of the United States with those of other countries.
American History A bibliographic resource that provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada
Beanstack The world’s easiest way to keep track of all the books you read. Connect to your library’s reading programs, so you’ll get credit for every minute and every page.
Books & Authors Product added by purchase report form.
BrainPOP Videos, activities and games covering: science, social studies, english, math, engineering & tech, health, arts and music.
Britannica Academic
Britannica Escolar
Britannica Image Quest General reference resource for multiple age groups.
Britannica School General reference resource for multiple age groups.
Business Insights: Essentials Includes company profiles, industry reports and financial reports, as well as business magazines and newspapers.
CultureWatch A combination of background information on specific countries, current events coverage, and a guide to the formation of countries within global context.
FactCite Access to all of your FactCite subscriptions.
FactCite: US & World Biographies
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.
Gale Academic OneFile with Subject Collections Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Gale Ebooks Ebook portal for Gale resources.
Gale General OneFile with Subject Collections News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
Gale In Context: Elementary Formerly Kids InfoBits A general reference resource for primary and elementary.
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
Gale NovelNY Databases Gale resource portal.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
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.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico Spanish interface provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
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.
Gale PowerSearch Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.
Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Facts and arguments on current events topics and social issues.
Health and Wellness Resource Center Full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more.
Kids Discover Kids Discover Online offers a growing library of over 2,000 engaging Science, Social Studies, and Nonfiction articles, written at 3 Lexile Reading Levels. Reading levels are geared towards grades 3-8. Kids Discover Online includes lesson-planning tools for educators, standards and curriculum alignment, online assessments, and more.
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.
News-O-Matic News-O-Matic is a digital news platform designed for K–8 students, offering daily, age-appropriate nonfiction articles that align with educational standards in subjects like ELA, science, social studies, and social-emotional learning. The platform emphasizes safety and accessibility by providing content reviewed by a child psychologist, multiple reading levels, audio narration, and translations in several languages. Interactive features such as videos, quizzes, and a "News Room" for student engagement enhance the learning experience. Educators benefit from tools like lesson plans and customizable units to seamlessly integrate current events into their teaching.
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)
Noodle Tools An online research tool to track your sources, take notes, create outlines, collaborate with classmates, and format and print your bibliography.
PBS Learning Media
PK Earth and Space Inspires elementary and middle school learners about key earth and space science topics including earth cycles, ecosystems and biomes, energy and matter, landforms, maps, natural disasters, rocks and minerals, environmental issues, the scientific method, space, water, and weather and climate.
PK Life Science Inspires elementary and middle school learners about key life science topics including animals; classification; endangered and extinct species; food chains and food webs; green living; habitats and ecosystems; the human body; life cycles; plants; and survival and adaptation.
PK Physical Science Informs and inspires learners about key physical science topics including atoms and molecules; elements and the periodic table; energy and matter; force and motion; and temperature and measurement.
Rosen Learning Center
Scholastic Go Information from all subject areas including Grolier Encyclopedias, Amazing Animals and America the Beautiful.
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.
Soundzabound Soundzabound royalty free music.
Swank K-12 Streaming Swank K-12 Streaming is convenient, controlled, and connected streaming platform that makes it easy for teachers to incorporate high-quality films into lesson plans. The library includes thousands of films for educational support, including the top feature films, documentaries and foreign titles. Powered by Swank Motion Pictures, the content is curated specifically for educators based on the movies they need for lessons, and provides access both inside the classroom or for assignments outside of the classroom. Eliminate the need for DVD players in classrooms Enable streaming access for districts blocking personal streaming sites Extend the classroom with connectivity to any LMS Streamline access with single sign-on integration
Teaching Books Discover online multimedia resources. Bring books and authors to life.
Teen Health and Wellness Nonjudgmental, straightforward info for middle and high school covering diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy, and more.
World at War Complete with overviews of more than 30 wars, this resource includes timelines, causes and consequences, portraits of opponents, and links to supporting facts and figures.