Homework Resources for Elementary School

Learn the meanings of words or phrases using The American Heritage® Dictionary online dictionary.

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Explore all 50 states without leaving home with CultureGrams States Edition. You'll find info on flags, state economy, weather, history and so much more. Want to nail that school project? We've got you covered!

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The world at your fingertips with CultureGrams World Edition! Find reliable, up-to-date information on more than 200 countries and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. You'll discover the history and people of each country, then take your knowledge farther with recipes, interviews and videos.

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Para cualquier persona que necesite información de una enciclopedia. La edición electrónica de la Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos contiene todos los artículos de los 22 tomos de la versión impresa, así como más de mil artículos disponibles en línea solamente.

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The power of EBSCO tailored to your elementary school student. Find encyclopedia entries, articles and videos for papers, projects and homework with Explora for Elementary School Students.

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HelpNow provides online homework help daily from 2 pm to 11 pm MST. Available in English and Spanish in core subjects for early elementary students through advanced college prep.

Get expert help with:

• Writing assignments
• Spanish homework
• English as a second language lessons

Use test prep tools for the ACT, SAT, GED, GRE and more.

National Geographic Kids, opens a new window will take students on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology and space. This resource includes magazines from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos and images. These high-quality informational texts are available for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English Language Arts, social studies and science classrooms.

NoveList K-8 features grab and go booklists and series information for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. NoveList K-8 can also help parents, teachers, and librarians improve literacy, connect reading across curricular areas, teach reading and writing concepts and engage young readers.

PebbleGo is no longer available through Arapahoe Libraries.

PebbleGo is a pre-kindergarten to third grade resource for reading and research. It features six modules: Animals, Animales (Spanish edition of Animals), Earth and Space, Biographies, Social Studies and Dinosaurs. Each includes leveled text, educational games and video support to help emergent readers and researcher learn database and reading skills.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a Lexiles reading level.

Scholastic GO! offers the most comprehensive source of nonfiction content targeted for grades 3 and up. Includes 8 encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

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Children's science eBooks from Gale for upper and lower elementary levels.

The online edition of World Book contains every article in the 22-volume print version of the encyclopedia, plus thousands more that are only available online. Includes related articles from major newspapers and magazines, graphic and multimedia content, special reports and more.