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Dallas Symphony for Kids
DSO Kids is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers. The site's mission is to provide attractive, accessible and child-friendly resources that introduce symphonic music, the orchestra and its instruments, and to encourage both adults and young people to explore the world of the symphony orchestra.
FunBrain.com
Since 1997, kids, teachers, librarians, and parents have enthusiastically turned to Funbrain for its free educational games, online books, and comics. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Covers an array of topics for students and adults alike, and indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. It contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
Hoopla
Offers thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, eBooks, comics, and audiobooks available for mobile and online access. Titles are from major Hollywood studios, record companies and publishers, and are available to borrow for instant streaming or temporary downloading to smartphones, tablets and computers. Audience: All ages
Just for Kids: Access Video
The Just for Kids Streaming Video Collection includes clips from thousands of fun and informative video and audio titles on topics including music and arts, animals, sports and hobbies, math and science, history, reading, and much more, plus hundreds of educational interactives—kid-safe, ad-free, and perfect for children’s programs.
Lerner Sports database
More than 100 high-interest biographies profiling sports superstars. Packed with fascinating facts, these bios explore the backgrounds, career-defining moments, and everyday lives of popular athletes. Easy to use, this is perfect for students in grades 2-5 developing research skills or looking for exciting sports content.
Middle Search Plus
Contains full-text for more than 150 popular middle school magazines, as well as thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains Essential Documents in American History, an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags, 96,600 biographies, and 76,000 primary source documents.
National Geographic Kids
Introduces kids to the amazing, compelling, and surprising with reputable, authoritative, and age-appropriate content that brings them 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. Includes National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month lag time). It also contains 200 National Geographic Kids books and 500 kid-friendly, downloadable images.
Nick Jr.
NickJr.com is THE place for online kids games and kids activities! Kids, parents, preschoolers, and everyone in your family who loves Nick Jr. TV shows will find hundreds of online kids games, kids crafts, and coloring pages starring favorite Nick Jr. characters. NickJr.com is also the place where your family will find information on family life, like kids health, kids exercise, family trips, holiday ideas, birthday party planning, home life, family entertainment, kids movies and kids DVDs, as well as preschool milestones and kids activities for all ages-and-stages--from toddlers to preschoolers to big kids.
PBS Kids
PBS KIDS is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment. With a 360-degree approach towards learning and reaching children, PBS KIDS leverages the full spectrum of media and technology to build knowledge, critical thinking, imagination and curiosity. By involving parents, teachers, caregivers and communities as learning partners, PBS KIDS helps to empower children for success in school and in life.
RBdigital eAudiobooks
Offers patrons a unique digital audiobook collection of popular fiction and nonfiction for adults, children and teens. Over 7,000 audiobooks are available 24/7 with no waiting! RBdigital is accessible through your browser and the free RBdigital app on your device. *note: if you already have a login for RBdigital Magazines, this same login will give you access to RBdigital Audiobooks.
Scholastic GO!
Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on a wide variety of subjects, Scholastic GO!® offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource.
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Scholastic Teachables
Scholastic Teachables is an online database of tens of thousands of searchable and printable educational materials. Teacher-authors have created and vetted thousands of high-quality, ready-to-use printables, mini-books, lesson plans, whiteboard activities, and other educational resources. This easy-to-use product supports whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction as well as independent learning, summer learning, and family engagement.
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ScienceFlix
Offers a mobile-ready interactive science resource perfectly designed for the next generation interested in science, technology, and engineering. With an emphasis on the latest STEM thinking and the newest science standards, ScienceFlix provides students with a better understanding of science concepts and ideas through a variety of media, including reference articles, videos, hands-on projects, interactive media and more! ScienceFlix also supports educators by supplementing curricula learning with dozens of units spanning key areas of study, and provides lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, projects and experiments, and more.
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Storyline
Storyline Online is easy for young kids to use -- just click on a book cover, and then click the play button. Our students are really enjoying listening to these stories, and we've been really pleased with the quality. What we love about it: • terrific actors that bring warmth, joy and feeling to these stories • fantastic selection of stories, both old and new • nice balance between the actor reading aloud and views of the picture book illustrations • easy to use site -- kids can navigate it by themselves • engages children in a rich story experience, but satisfies their yearning for screen time
Time for Kids
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! Our Digital Editions are the perfect supplement to your TIME For Kids print subscription, and they deliver a host of exciting features to help bring TIME For Kids to life. A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math.
World Book Online
Features the entire World Book Encyclopedia, a dictionary, and local and country research guides. There are thousands of complete eBooks and primary source documents. The eBooks include full-text English-language versions in the areas of fiction and nonfiction, as well as books in other languages. Primary sources include official documents, letters, books, speeches, articles, records, interviews, and images from the time period a user is researching.
World Book Online For Kids
Features the entire World Book Encyclopedia, a dictionary, and local and country research guides. There are thousands of complete eBooks and primary source documents. The eBooks include full-text English-language versions in the areas of fiction and nonfiction, as well as books in other languages. Primary sources include official documents, letters, books, speeches, articles, records, interviews, and images from the time period a user is researching.