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Homeschool Resource Hub
Check out our comprehensive compilation of educational resources for you to use in an at-home classroom! Some of these require you to have your library card handy, while others are just good websites we found!
BookFLIX
Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Enjoy read aloud with words highlighting and interactive games. Some films and books are available in Spanish too!
Britannica School Elementary
Britannica School Elementary is a comprehensive source of informational text for younger learners pre-K to grade 5. It includes encyclopedia articles, images, videos, and magazine articles. There is a Britannica Fundamentals section for children Pre-K through grade 2. Tools such as a world atlas, virtual tours, country comparison, etc., allow learners to explore geography and animal kingdom topics. A Britannica Fundamentals provides materials for children Pre-K through second-grade. Hot topics articles and games keep learning fun!
Child Mind Institute
The Child Mind Institute offers plenty of advice on how to help kids and teens with mental health challenges succeed in school.
Cricket Media Collection
This collection includes hundreds of e-books from renowned family publisher Cricket Media. It can help build strong literacy skills in students from grades pre-K to 8 by offering digital access to award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles. This unique e-book collection explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers explore and expand their worlds. Books have listed Lexile levels, word count, and clear pictures!
Discovery Kits
Discovery kits are curated educational kits and tools designed to foster learning for children of all ages. We carry kits in math skills, reading, science, motor control, engineering, languages, and so much more. Browse the kits here, and check out up to 2 at a time per library card.
E-Book Collection PowerLibrary
Search the POWER Library e-book collections in one place! This e-resource searches the e-books available in EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, and ProQuest E-Book Central. These collections include over 20,000 e-books and cover a wide variety of subjects, primarily nonfiction.
EBSCO School and Public Libraries Resource Center
An expertly curated list of resources for School and Public Libraries put together by EBSCO. Many of these resources are helpful for teachers and parents who are learning and teaching from home. This particular resource is available until further notice.
Gale Elementary
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. Kids InfoBits includes full-text proprietary content from Blackbirch Press®, U-X-L, KidHaven Press™, and more! Content is continuously updated and provides interesting and important facts with connections to current and past events.
Gale Middle School
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.
Gale High School
Secondary school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
Homeschooling Family Education
Family Education provides tips and instructions for getting started in homeschooling, setting up a homeschool classroom, tips for keeping kids engaged, and relevant articles on trends and hot topics in homeschooling!
National Child Welfare Workforce Insitue
The NCWWI has compiled a link tree to some great student self-care resources!
Self Care Tips
Classroom Mental Health, part of the University of Michigan Health System, has compiled a guide on helping teens deal with common school-related stresses, from burnout to mental illness.
SIRS Discovery!
This database provides coverage in areas including history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine, and reference book content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality global sources, including 400 full-text nonfiction books and around 300 full-text book chapters from publishers such as Britannica, World Book, Rosen Publishing Group, Enslow, and ReferencePoint Press. This resource even has "Trending Topics," which presents well-researched arguments and bibliographies for both sides of controversial issues!
Teacher Reference Center
This e-resource for teachers provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals. Maybe it's not the most interesting research, but it can be useful!
Transparent Language
Whether you’re a true language learning beginner, dusting off your old high school Spanish, or eager to tackle your tenth language—Transparent Language Online will help you get started and stick with it. Create an account to save your progress! Over 100 languages are available to learn, including American Sign Language and many dialects. KidSpeak courses are developed for younger and beginner learners! And yes, there are ESL courses for native speakers of Spanish, Turkish, Danish, and more!
TrueFLIX
Learn about people, places, nature, history, and science from videos and eBooks on topics such as American Indians, Ancient Civilizations, Farm to Table, The Civil War, Continents, The Thirteen Colonies, U.S. Government, Disasters, Earth Science, Experiments, Extreme Science, Nature, and many more.
Additional Services from MLNV
- Hoopla – To access hoopla you must first register using your library card number and a personal e-mail. Make sure to write down your username and password for future use.
- Request an interlibrary loan (ILL) – ILL is a service that allows a patron of one library to borrow materials that are owned by another library. If MLNV doesn’t have an item you’d like, inquire at the main circulation desk to fill out the request form in person, or you can complete it online!
- Tech appointments – Call the library or stop by the main circulation desk to set up on a appointment with our technology specialist!
