A comprehensive Spanish database with more than 170,000 articles, images and videos designed for native Spanish-speaking researchers and advanced bilingual and ESL students.
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Early Learning Encyclopedia 
An online resource for preschoolers and children in early elementary grades. Offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes. Provides leveled readers to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters Encyclopedia Reference Articles
A collection of digitized documents detailing colonial life in America, Africa, and Australasia by European settlers from 1650 - 1920.
Gale in Context: Biography Encyclopedia
Biographical information on people from all eras and fields. Users can search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates & places, or gender.
Gale in Context: Elementary Encyclopedia
Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content
World Book Advanced Encyclopedia
In addition to the entire World Book Encyclopedia, this site features primary source documents, computer tutorials, government resources, etc. A power reference tool for advanced research and information seekers.
World Book Discover Encyclopedia
Offers engaging reference resources for students with unique needs, including reluctant readers, ELL, ESL, and adult literacy students. This collection includes reference content, English text-to-speech capabilities, translation tools, and interactive video, etc.
World Book Kids Encyclopedia
Offers simple navigation, easy-to-understand articles, rich media, and hundreds of interactive games, activities, and teaching materials for elementary school students.
World Book Student Encyclopedia
Contains content and features designed for school-age students to meet their research needs. It's a collection of age-appropriate science fair projects, a biography centre, virtual tours, video showcases, links to links to current events, newspapers and more.
World Book Timelines Encyclopedia
Offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines covering various time periods in history or spanning the life of historical public figures. Users may also create their own timeline.