Online Resources for Parents and Students

Doing research—or just expanding your knowledge—can now take place 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Today, HISD enables students to access a wealth of materials at home, in their libraries, or in their classrooms with the click of a mouse. The many online resources the district makes available range from encyclopedias to instructional videos and historic newspapers. Feel free to browse!

  • Click on the icons on the right to access the resources from school or home.
  • Contact your librarian for a handout containing logins and passwords for home use. 
  • Contact Suzanne Lyons for home access information or training on using these resources.

BrainPOP provides various resources supporting many areas of the curriculum. Content is aligned to academic standards and easily searchable with the online Standards Tool . BrainPop educator provides training resources and lesson plans. The products in the subscription are BrainPop, BrainPop Jr. and BrainPop Español. Login is required from school and home. Contact your librarian or Suzanne Lyons to get the user name and password.

EBSCO Host provides access to an integrated service including reference databases, online journals, books, specified subject areas such as business, science, biography, literature and consumer health. Online assistance and support can be found here.

United Streaming

Discovery Education is a digital video-based learning resource
from Discovery Education. Educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos- including more than 1,000 new videos in subject areas including foreign language, secondary math, science, and language arts. This resource requires a unique login for each user. You may obtain a login kit from your librarian or your tech coordinator.

Nettrekker

Nettrekker organizes Web sites around the K–12 curricula.

All sites are evaluated for academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Users can search by grade level, subject directory, keyword, famous person, etc. Nettrekker categorizes web sites by type: lesson plans, images, learning exercises, games, pictures, or maps and charts. Special content is provided for ELL learners. Resources are aligned with the state standards. For online training, click here. 

Proquest

Proquest provides access to 4 products: E-Curriculum Library, History Study Center, Proquest:Literature, and Historical Newspapers. E-Curriculum Library provides answers from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and audio/video content. For online training on E-Curriculum Library, click here. Historical Newspapers offers a unique collection of primary source historical documents featuring back issues of the New York Times. For general online training and support, click here.

Teaching BooksTeaching Books makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. For online training, click here.

Thompson GaleThompson Gale provides access to several products including Literature Resource Center and Student Resource Center Gold. Literature Resource Center provides students with access to traditional literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, and current journal articles. Student Reference Center Gold provides biographies, essays, full-text magazines, glossaries, historical overviews, photographs, audio files to answer research needs.

For online support and assistance, click here.

Turnitin

Turnitin provides services for High School teachers concerned with academic integrity of student work. The primary focus of this service is to prevent plagiarism. This online service allows teacher to check to see that students are writing their own assignments. To obtain School ID#, password, and usage information, contact Suzanne Lyons. For online training, click here.

Wilson WebWilson Web provides professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to education.

ABC-Clio SchoolsWorld Book Web includes the entire World Book print encyclopedia plus, e-books, web sites, magazines, activities, discussion guides, an atlas, dictionary, and two spanish language encyclopedias. It is designed to meet the needs of students from grade school through high school.

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