H.I.S.D  Online Resources

	Discovery Education is a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education. Educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos..(Teachers may set up accounts by obtaining logon information from the librarians.)
	Brain Pop provides various resources supporting many areas of the curriculum.  Content is aligned to academic standards and easily searchable with the online Standards Tool. BrainPop educator provides training resources and lesson plans.
	Thompson Gale provides access to 3 products: Literature Resource Center, Student Resource Center Gold and Testing and Education Reference Center. Literature Resource Center provides students  with access to traditional literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, and current journal articles.  . Student Reference Center Gold provides biographies, essays, full-text magazines, glossaries, historical overviews, photographs, audio files to answer research needs.
	(Provided by the state of Texas with extra databases provided by HISD) Ebsco Host This comprehensive on-line EBSCO package provides students and educators access to multiple databases simultaneously. Searchasaurus, Kids Search, Student Research Center, EBSCO Host, Science Reference and several other subject databases are included.
	World Book Web provides access to World Book Kids, World Book Students, and World Book Advanced. Other available resources include a Spanish Encyclopedia, World Book Discover, and Living Green.
	(Provided by the state of Texas) Britannica Online provides access to encyclopedias on elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Other available resources include a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionary, and workspace to take notes on your research.
	netTrekker A specialized search engine that organizes web sites around the K–12 curricula. All sites are evaluated for academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Users can search by grade level. Resources are aligned with the state standards.
	Teaching Books makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
	Proquest provides access to: E-Curriculum Library, History Study Center, Proquest:Literature, and Historical Newspapers. E-Curriculum Library provides answers from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and  audio/video content.
	Wilson Web provides professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to education.