Lower School Media Resources

Curricular Resources

• Third Grade Bird Sites
• Fifth Grade Biography Sites
• Book Recommendations
• Math Playground
• Earthquakes
• Amazing Insects
• Exploring Geometric Shapes and Tessellations?
• What's for Lunch?
• Research Sites for the Mississippi River
• Music Web Sites
• The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Interactive Mathematics
• Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
• Spanish Web Sites
• KidsReads
• BookAdventure

Media Literacy

• Parent Guide to Children and Media
• Media and Internet Education Resources for Parents
• Games for Kids
• Don't Buy It
• Media Literacy Resources

Teacher Resources

• Atomic Learning
• The Saint Paul Pioneer Press
• Infotrac Infotrac contains a variety of databases, most of which give access to articles in periodicals, with archives from 1980 to the present. Specialized databases cover: general reference, health, computers, business, and authors. Included are two Spanish-language databases, Informe and Consulta.
• ProQuest Newsstand Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.
  • Star Tribune includes 1986-current.
  • NY Times includes 1999-current.