|
Librarians know that it can be hard to navigate the range of online media resources and feel confident about their quality. To help educators prepare for this school year, we’re providing a list of useful online resources. Teachers can experiment and add these resources to their toolkits for middle and high school classrooms.
Visit the Articles and Databases page of sfpl.org to find resources containing information collected from books, magazines, research journals and other authoritative sources, each with bibliographical citations.
For social studies and history:
- San Francisco Chronicle Historical offers news articles from 1865-1922.
- New York Times Historical offers news articles from 1851 to three years ago.
- Opposing Viewpoints is a great site for getting information on both sides of controversial issues. There is a list of commonly searched topics, and a wealth of other possible searches, good for students who are learning how to present theses and need more in depth research.
- Biography Resources Center + Marquis Who’s Who is useful for finding well-known figures, as well as learning about more obscure people who students may have a hard time locating in encyclopedias.
For science, geography and health:
- Gale Virtual Reference Library and Student Resource Center both have sources on the environment, medicine, cloning and other topics.
- Sanborn Maps California offers digital access to maps of California from 1867 to 1970.
- Teen Health and Wellness has information from experts on physical and emotional health-related concerns for teens.
For the college bound:
- CollegeSource Online has full text college catalogs for about 45,000 colleges.
- Learning Express Library offers online practice tests for the SAT, GED and other standardized tests.
Still need books?
The Library’s Community Redistribution Program offers books no longer needed for the library’s collections to public benefit organizations, including schools and childcare centers.
Books are available at no cost to school libraries, classroom collections, and childcare centers. For more information please contact Evie Krebs at (415) 557-4263.
|
