K-8 Resources

Selected Video & Full-Text Database Collections for Students in Grades K-8

Biography in Context (No login required!)
This superb resource features a wealth of information about notable individuals from throughout history and all fields of endeavor. Information sources include Gale's vast collection of subject encyclopedias, magazines, journals, primary sources, videos, podcasts and images.

BrainPOP (Login required. Please refer to K-8 Database Login resource, available in Atlas social studies
curriculum maps.)
BrainPOP offers a terrific collection of hundreds of original animated movies about math, English, science, social studies, health & technology, as well as activity pages, timelines, comic strips and other features.
BrainPOP Español
Find Spanish language movie, quizzes and more here.
BrainPOP Jr.
This collection features movies, quizzes, games and activities appropriate for students in grades K-3.

Britannica School and Britannica Escolar (No login required!)
This superb multimedia encyclopedia resource is available to students at three levels:

Elementary - texts and information for students in grades K-5
Middle - texts and information for students in grades 6-8
High School - texts and information for students in grades 9-12

CultureGrams (Login required.)

This comprehensive collection features information about the history, culture and daily life of countries and territories around the world, including detailed statistics, maps and much more.

EBSCOhost databases available to the Salem Public Schools learning community include:

Primary Search - featuring 80 full-text elementary school magazines, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd ed., as well as thousands of photos, maps, and flags, for use by students in grades K-5. Each full-text article is assigned a Lexile (reading level indicator). Titles in this collection include these Scholastic magazines: Action, Choices, DynaMath, Junior Scholastic, Math, News (eds.. 1,2,3,4 & 5/6), Scope and Storyworks; Stone Soup, Skipping Stones, and much more.
Middle Search Plus - This collection includes 150 full-text magazines, thousands of photographs, maps and flags, more than 130,000 biographies, and more than 81,000 primary source documents, for use by students in grades 6-8. Each full-text article is assigned a Lexile (reading level indicator).
MasterFile Premier (for use by high school and college students)
ERIC
Professional Development Collection

From the Salem Public Library's Online Resources page, scroll down and click on the General Research link to see the full list of EBSCOHost databases. If prompted, enter your Salem Public Library barcode to log in to the database you wish to search. (Teachers will find ERIC and the Professional Development Collection under the Academic Research link.)

* Use your Salem Public Library barcode to log in to this collection.
* Check out the helpful searching tips for these EBSCOhost database collections.

Gale (No login required!)
These 50+ databases include general and content area collections featuring magazines, scholarly journals, and other reference sources, newspapers, podcasts, and videos.

Kids InfoBits (No login required!)
This Gale database was developed for beginning researchers in grades K-5, and features an appealing and developmentally appropriate visually graphic interface. All curriculum-related information comes from high quality magazines and reference materials. Subjects covered include geography, science, health, current events, history, government, the arts, sports, and more. (The database features two reading level recommendations - "Easy" and "More Difficult". These are assigned to magazine, reference book, or newswire titles, not to individual articles.)

Research in Context (No login required!)
This database is designed for middle school students, and includes general and subject encyclopedias and other reference material, videos, newspapers, magazines and primary sources to support research and study of literature, science, social studies and history.