Information on countries & territories including customs, lifestyles, & social conditions. Find recipes from all countries as well as biographies of famous citizens. Photographs are available for some countries.
Geography
Online Resources
CultureGrams
Elementary School Resources
Designed for elementary school researchers with simple search for articles, essays, and primary source documents; easy-to-browse topics, and overviews to help students find a starting point.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (now called Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta)
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos es el nivel de comienzo en Espanol de la enciclopedia web, con miles de articulos, illustracions, y mapas. Facil de utilizar con interfaz bilingue.
Explora
Designed with students and educators in mind, Explora provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, and homework.
Gale in Context: Elementary
Find text, images, charts, graphs, and educational videos from books, magazines, and news periodicals on interesting and important facts with connections to current and past events.
Middle School Resources
Designed for middle school researchers with simple search for articles, essays, and primary source documents; easy-to-browse topics, and overviews to help students find a starting point.
National Geographic Kids
Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they've never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
National Geographic Magazine Archive Magazines & Newspapers
The complete, online archive of the magazine, from its start in 1888 to six weeks ago. All the articles, photos, covers, maps, and even advertisements are included and searchable in several ways.
Primary Search
Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for popular children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries, and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, such as endangered species, famous musicians, fitness, and space exploration.
United States Geography
This interactive database helps students better understand the geographic, historic, social, political, cultural, & economic landscape of the United States, as well as the complexities underlying the challenges facing the nation & individual states.
World Book Kids
Learn, play, read, and create with all the information you get from World Book, written just for kids!
World Book Student
Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.
World Geography
World Geography provides authoritative content & online tools that develop students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, & cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world.