Use the Quicksearch Advanced Search to find more multicultural children's fiction.
Materials in the Education Resources Center include: books, big books, games, unit plans, textbooks, lesson plans, activity books, kits and education software packages that you can borrow and use to enrich and add interest to lesson plans and classes you will teach as a student teacher.
For education research related to theory, see the Education Guide.
To search for materials in the ERC, follow these simple instructions.
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To find a picture book in the Education Resources Center, use Ely Library QuickSearch:
NOTE: Make sure to use the * following your call number. For this search you do not need to limit to Education Resources Collection. There are no PZ call numbers in the stacks!
Databases for Children
Primary
Meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It provides a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search, and a 5-year backfile that offers relevant and manageable results lists.
Included are 100 full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazines, newspapers, over 3,000 searchable, indexed images, and reference content from Blackbirch Press and other publishers that supports the K-5 curriculum including: Kidbits, 2nd Ed., The Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science and Invention, The Blackbirch Kid's Almanac of Geography, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the States, The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary.
Middle School
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database covers an array of topics, meeting the research needs of elementary, middle and high school students. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
High School
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school libraries. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Database includes full-text biographical, primary documents in American History, pamphlets, and reference resources, and more.
Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.