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Student Resources

The Student Resources page is your information destination. From this page, students can find the resource links and information they need — all in one spot. From Reference Libraries to encyclopedias, magazines, journals and essays, our Lynx can find all the information they need by clicking on the corresponding division. 

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Lower School Resources

  • BrainPop, JR. K-3
    For elementary students (K-3), age-appropriate animated, curriculum-based content.
  • BrainPop
    Animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.
  • BrainPop Espanol
    Spanish language version of BrainPop's animated, curriculum-based content.
  •  Britannica Online School Ed
    Search encyclopedia articles (Britannica, Compton’s, Britannica Elementary).  Encyclopedia articles include illustrations, videos, and recommended reading and websites.
  • Clever
    Clever is a digital learning platform for K12 schools--one friendly place for single sign-on, messaging, analytics, and more.
  • IXL 3rd-10th Math practice
    Unlimited practice problems with meaningful, up-to-date tracking on your child's progress. Learn thousands of K-12 topics online. Get detailed feedback and guidance. Win fun awards!
  • SeeSaw
    Seesaw is a classroom app used in over 3 out of 4 schools in the US and over 150 countries.
  • World Book Kids
    World Book Kids is a general reference website developed especially for young students. The site offers image-based navigation, easy‐to‐read articles, thousands of illustrations, and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities.
  • World Book Early World of Learning
    Features narrated stories, "print & do" exercises, videos, interactive games, and a visual online encyclopedia to help make learning fun and engaging for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades.   
  • Primary Search
    Designed specifically for elementary school students, this database provides full-text for popular children's magazines covering a variety of topics.
  • Kids InfoBits
    Covers a broad range of elementary school topics in one accessible resource. It features a modern, graphical interface that improves navigation understanding to offer students an introduction to database searching that is in step with their skill.

Middle School Resources

  • BrainPop
    Animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators and bolsters achievement.
  • BrainPop ESP
    Spanish language version of BrainPop's animated, curriculum-based content.
  • Clever
    Clever is a digital learning platform for K12 schools--one friendly place for single sign-on, messaging, analytics, and more.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Contains electronic reference books presented by discipline. Information spans the curriculum with virtual books in History, Literature, Science and other subjects. Included in this collection are many multi-volume sets.
  • Britannica Online School Ed
    Search encyclopedia articles (Britannica, Compton’s, Britannica Elementary), journals, magazines, websites, atlas, timelines, videos, interactive “Learning Zone” for PreK-2. See a librarian for off campus password.
  • World Book Encyclopedia
    Includes a number of levels and types of encyclopedias. Content in addition to the encyclopedia articles includes related websites and magazine articles, ebooks, primary sources, multimedia and more. The library advises World Book Student for Middle School research and World Book Advanced for Upper School students.
  • Tennessee Electronic Library
    Databases by subject link to hundreds of millions of articles in Gale Virtual Reference Library, Academic OneFile, Kids InfoBits, Literature Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Learning Express Library, and many more.
  • Academic Search Complete 
    Offers an enormous collection of the most relevant full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. The database includes 9,000 full-test journals spanning a wide range of disciplines in the sciences, humanities and the arts. The resource contains current content as well as some selected content dating as back into the 19th century.
  • Salem Press’ 
    Reference materials are written in clear and succinct language that is accessible to high school and undergraduate level students. Individual essays are robust enough to be thorough but not overwhelming. Included in the Salem resources are databases in history, literature and health. Please see the library resources document or see a librarian for the password information.
  • SeeSaw
    Seesaw is a classroom app used in over 3 out of 4 schools in the US and over 150 countries.

Upper School Resources

  • Tennessee Electronic Library
    Databases by subject link to hundreds of millions of articles in Gale Virtual Reference Library, Academic OneFile, Kids InfoBits, Literature Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Learning Express Library, and many more.
    - Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides access to cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards. Students can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals. Audience: Middle School, High School
    - World Book Encyclopedia
    Includes a number of levels and types of encyclopedias. Content in addition to the encyclopedia articles includes related websites and magazine articles, ebooks, primary sources, multimedia and more. The library advises World Book Student for Middle School research and World Book Advanced for Upper School students.
  • JSTOR 
    Includes scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. This database provides high school students exposure to peer-reviewed scholarly research. Access is seamless from campus. Students need to create an account using MyJSTOR in order to access the database from off-campus.
  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. 
  • Britannica Online School Ed
  • Search encyclopedia articles (Britannica, Compton’s, Britannica Elementary), journals, magazines, websites, atlas, timelines, videos, interactive “Learning Zone” for PreK-2. See a librarian for off campus password.
  • Academic Search Complete 
    Offers an enormous collection of the most relevant full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. The database includes 9,000 full-test journals spanning a wide range of disciplines in the sciences, humanities and the arts. The resource contains current content as well as some selected content dating as back into the 19th century.
  • Literature Criticism Online
    Offers information on authors, works, themes, and types of literature dating from classical literature to the contemporary. This is a rich resource for the literature student of any language. There is a range of searching options to pinpoint students’ research needs.
  • Salem Press’ 
    Reference materials are written in clear and succinct language that is accessible to high school and undergraduate level students. Individual essays are robust enough to be thorough but not overwhelming. Included in the Salem resources are databases in history, literature and health. Please see the library resources document or see a librarian for the password information.
  • WorldCat
    Find books and videos in libraries around the world. Interlibrary loan is available for research purposes.
  • BrainPop
    Animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators and bolsters achievement.
  • BrainPop ESP
    Spanish language version of BrainPop's animated, curriculum-based content.

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