LibGuides: Waterford High School Library: Library Internet Resources

Internet Resources by subject

Search our Databases either by subject headings from above or from the list below.

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Prevent Plagiarism

Check for multiple forms of plagiarism and teach students the value of academic integrity, proper attribution, and authentic writing.

Proquest Learning Literature
Contains original full-text works, author biographies, contemporary literary criticism, study guides, and multimedia.

Humanities International Complete via Badgerlink
-Nearly 1,240 full-text journals
-Content for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought

Literary Reference Center via Badgerlink
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-36,000 plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews
-101,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
-94,000 poems and 25,000 short stories

Novelist via Badgerlink
Fiction recommendation resource with read-alikes, discussion guides, reading lists, and more. For teens and adults.

LitFinder via Badgerlink
Collection of literary works and related articles for student and adult researchers.

TeachingBooks via Badgerlink
Multimedia on K-12 fiction and non-fiction books for students and educators.

EBSCO Espanol
Punto de acceso a bases de datos de EBSCOhost españolas. Para los hispanohablantes. Access point to EBSCOhost Spanish databases. For Spanish speakers.

Duolingo
Duolingo is the free science-based language education platform that has organically become the most popular way to learn languages online.

EBSCO Health (Badgerlink)
Simultaneously searches AHFS Consumer Medication Information, Alt HealthWatch, Consumer Health Complete, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and MEDLINE

Teen Health and Wellness
The award-winning Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, straightforward curricular, and self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national, and provincial standards, including Common Core Health and Science.  Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, LGBTQ issues, and more.

Today's Science
Science news written especially for students. Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and experiments.

GreenFILE (Badgerlink)
-Includes scholarly, government, and general-interest titles
-Content covers global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable practices, renewable energy, and recycling
-Key journals include: Agriculture, ecosystems & Environment, Conservation Biology, Forest Ecology & Management, -International Journal of Green Energy, and Journal of Wildlife Management

Science Reference Center (Badgerlink)
-Covers subjects of Biology, Chemistry Earth and Space Science, Environmental Science, Health and Medicine, History of Science, Life Science, Mathematics, Physics, Science and Society, Science as Inquiry, Scientists, and Wildlife
-Includes Science Image Collection with more than 300,000 images
-Contains more than 200 full-text science magazines
-Full-text articles are searchable by reading level indicator (Lexile)

World News Digest
For more than 75 years, World News Digest has been a go-to resource for context and background on key issues of both historical events and breaking news. With more than 300,000 original articles and a vast archive covering every major event since its inception, this database offers concise summaries of current events and clearly written essays on the top issues of the day.

Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies helps students and researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Presented in a balanced, pro/con format, each article presents the key facts, arguments, history, and current context—an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

ABC CLIO World Geography
Students construct their own knowledge by examining cultural, physical, and spatial information organized by country and topic.
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For over 200 countries, students will find country profiles and overviews; history; important statistics about population, climate, economics, and culture; bigraphies; a listing of influential organizations; primary source documents; maps, flags, and photos.

ABC CLIO World History
Students develop chronological knowledge by exploring the cultures, events, personalities, inventions, movements and religious developments that occurred around the globe and throughout history.

ABC CLIO American History
Covering everything from early exploration and the establishment of the 13 colonies, through westward expansion, the Civil War, and all the remarkable events of the 19th and 20th centuries, this website offers a compendium of research and reference resources.
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Features include a multimedia window into maps, chronologies, flags, and biographies, plus Living History, feature story, and "this day in history" articles that link current events to U.S. History.

ABC CLIO American Government
Containing watershed court cases, events, policies and people, daily political news, commentary, videos, chronologies, images, primary sources, maps and more.
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This website engages learners in the study of American Government by tying today's exciting headlines to educational standards and curriculum-based content.

Maps 101
Over 4,500 maps, videos, animations,games, news articles, lesson plans and activities

History Reference Center (Badgerlink)
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-Full-text books, magazines, historical documents, biographies, and multimedia
-Nearly 57,000 historical documents and 40,000 historical photos and maps
-More than 1,990 full-text reference books
-Full-text articles are searchable by reading level indicator (Lexile)

Library Internet Sources

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ProQuest Learning: Literature

SIRS

ABC Clio's World Geography

ABC Clio's World History

eLibrary

E-Resources (Mackin VIA)

Noodle Tools - NoodleToolsTutorials

CQ Researcher Online

Badgerlink

ABC Clio's American Government

Infobase Learning

ABC'S Clio's American History

SWANK streaming film library

Teen Health and Wellness

For more information on each database, read below:

Proquest Learning Literature
Proquest Learning: Literature contains original full-text works, author biographies, contemporary literary criticism, study guides, and multimedia.
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Researchers will find more than 150,000 searchable works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world- from medieval times to the present, and thousands of secondary literary sources such as biographies, literary criticism, essays, reviews, interviews, video, and Websites.

SIRS
SIRS is the perfect resource for persuasive research with its highly useful index of pro/con issues.

Infobase Learning- Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies is another source specifically created for persuasive writing and research. Each of its topics poses an essential question followed by the opinions of supporters and opponents regarding each issue.

Badgerlink
What is BadgerLink?
BadgerLink is Wisconsin’s online library which provides access to licensed content such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly articles, videos, images, and music.
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*For this project, be sure to select Badgerlink's Education databases for your sources of information!

ABC CLIO World Geography
Students construct their own knowledge by examining cultural, physical, and spatial information organized by country and topic.
more...less...
For over 200 countries, students will find country profiles and overviews; history; important statistics about population, climate, economics, and culture; bigraphies; a listing of influential organizations; primary source documents; maps, flags, and photos.

ABC CLIO World History
Students develop chronological knowledge by exploring the cultures, events, personalities, inventions, movements and religious developments that occurred around the globe and throughout history.

ABC CLIO American History
Covering everything from early exploration and the establishment of the 13 colonies, through westward expansion, the Civil War, and all the remarkable events of the 19th and 20th centuries, this website offers a compendium of research and reference resources.
more...less...
Features include a multimedia window into maps, chronologies, flags, and biographies, plus Living History, feature story, and "this day in history" articles that link current events to U.S. History.

ABC CLIO American Government
Containing watershed court cases, events, policies and people, daily political news, commentary, videos, chronologies, images, primary sources, maps and more.
more...less...
This website engages learners in the study of American Government by tying today's exciting headlines to educational standards and curriculum-based content.

MackinVia
Our WUHS subscription to MackinVia provides patrons with multi-user, simultaneous access to over 150 e-books on a variety of topics

Maps 101
Over 4,500 maps, videos, animations,games, news articles, lesson plans and activities

Access Noodletools Here!
This site will allow students to set up or access a Noodletools account, create a bibliography, and complete notecards for a research projects

Noodletools for Students Tutorial
This simple tutorial will assist students in establishing a teacher- linked account, setting up a source page, and creating linked notecards.

CQ Researcher
Continually updating, this reputable source features in-depth reporting on controversial social and political issues in the news.

Teen Health and Wellness
The award-winning Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, straightforward curricular, and self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national, and provincial standards, including Common Core Health and Science.  Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, LGBTQ issues, and more.

Duolingo
Duolingo is the free science-based language education platform that has organically become the most popular way to learn languages online.