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Hopewell Elementary School

Resources

Resources From ELA Lessons
  • Mrs. Pongracz's Guide to Bibliographies and Citations, click here.
  • See Mrs. Pongracz's tips for how to do the best keyword searches and evaluate your search results, click here.
Tips for Keyword Searching      

 
MackinVIA Resources
Recommended Book Series by Genre
 

 
 
School Resources
AccessIT (Books, ebooks, and audiobooks available through our media center)
 
Community Resources
 
Other Resources
 
Safe Search Kids

This is a specialized Google search engine with filtered search results that are appropriate for elementaryhttps://www.safesearchkids.com/ students

 World Book Online

This is an online encyclopedia by World Book.  This is a great resource when you are doing research!  See Mrs. Pongracz to get the username and password.

 Khan Academy

Thousands of free resources for multiple subject areas, but mainly math, science, and technology

 POWER Library

This is a database of databases and can provide you with loads of information for any project you might be doing.  Each database within POWER Library is a little different, so make sure you read the descriptions carefully. However, one of the best databases for 5th and 6th grades is Kid InfoBits.  

-      To access this very useful tool from school, click on the Favorites tab in Internet Explorer.  Then select Power Library.  Choose the database that you think will work best meet your information need. 

-      To access this tool from home, go to the Chester County Public Library website listed above.  Under the red "Find a Resource" tab, select databases.  Click on POWER Library and then the POWER Library icon on the next page.  Enter your library card number. 

   

CIA World Factbook

Expect to find information on countries all over the world on this government-owned website.

Fact Monster

 

 

   
 
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