Highlands High - Other Online Resources

Other Online Resources

Newsela - Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events writtten at different reading levels http://newsela.com/

Best Web Resources for Our Students, Their Teachers and Families http://www.bestlibrary.org/bestweb/2011/09/english.html

Encyclopedia.com REFERENCE INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST: ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM HAS MORE THAN 100 TRUSTED SOURCES, INCLUDING ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES, AND THESAURUSES WITH FACTS, DEFINITIONS, BIOGRAPHIES, SYNONYMS, PRONUNCIATION KEYS, WORD ORIGINS, AND ABBREVIATIONS.

Knights Citation Creator Free Online Citation Creator

Sacramento Public Library – Homework Help with Tutor.com http://www.saclibrary.org/?pageId=7

This resource is available for homework help 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Click on Homework Help and enter your FREE library card number.

Sacramento Bee E-edition Read the Sacramento Bee 7 days a weeks on Line at school, home, phone, anywhere you have Internet access.

Click image below to access the digital newspapers then click on 'student login'

user name: library

password: highlands

Access the online version of the Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee, Fresno Bee, Merced Sun-Star, and el Nuevo Herald (all spanish newspaper from Florida) 24 hours a day from any device that has Internet Access through the end of the school year.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Learn about American History, visit online exhibits, enter exclusive national history competitions, including our annual Civil War Essay Contest, and much more. Free- no password required

http://www.ipl.org/ This search engine is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. Thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. Free- no password required

http://www.scirus.com/ The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 460 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. Free- no password required

http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page A targeted search engine that compiles hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving intelligent search and a personal Web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results immediately and find them quickly later. Free- no password required

MLA Formatting & Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/