LibGuides: Cooper Library and Learning Commons: Research

All subjects

BrainPop (Clever login, all BrainPop platforms) This link opens in a new window BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Login with G Suite. Teachers: Ask your library media specialist for your code. Students: ask your teacher for the code.
Britannica Escolar This link opens in a new window Spanish encyclopedia for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Features two levels: Primaria for elementary and Secundaria for middle school.
Britannica School This link opens in a new window Offers general information at three educational levels: elementary, middle and high.
PebbleGo / PebbleGo Next This link opens in a new window Early grades: PebbleGo Animals, Animales (español), Science, Ciencia (español), Biographies, Biografías (español), Social Studies, Estudios Sociales (español), Dinosaurs, & Health, Salud (español). 3rd - 6th grade : PebbleGo Next States, Science, American Indian History, Social Studies, Biographies

eBooks K-12

MackinVIA Ebooks & Audiobooks This link opens in a new window Find ebooks and audiobooks on a wide variety of topics. Includes popular fiction. To login, pull-down the menu to your school and enter your school network username and password.
Tumble Book Library This link opens in a new window Animated, talking picture books. Kindergarten - Gr. 5. Highlighted text. Some titles in Spanish and French. All Tumblebooks are also available in MackinVia.

Libraries

Rdale Library catalogs - All schools This link opens in a new window Access library catalogs for all schools. Locate print and electronic books across the district including our professional library. Find open educational resources by grade level and subject.
Hennepin County Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
WorldCat (National Libraries) This link opens in a new window Find items in local, regional and national libraries. Items may be available for inter library loan. Ask you library media specialist.

Extended Learning/Careers and Test Prep

Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window Resources for basic computer and academic skill building, job preparation, and career advancement. Includes interactive tutorials, online books, and test preparation tools for GED, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, and military and occupational exams. Create your own account to track progress.
Edgenuity This link opens in a new window Core and elective online courses for credit recovery and differentiated instruction in many subjects. Contract technology integration specialist for account information.

English - High School

TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window TeachingBooks provides a wide variety of resources about books and authors including topical lists and information about authors. Features audio and videos of readings and interviews.
Swank Digital Campus (Selected Films) This link opens in a new window This platform is a Netflix-like service for streaming Hollywood films to k-12 schools. Each video in this collection has been purchased for a particular course in the district. DO NOT add a link in your course unless the film is a part of your planned curriculum, PLEASE add a link to the specific video, not the entire collection. ASK your media specialist about ordering films.
Proquest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Global newspaper archives stretching back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in full-text format. Includes Minneapolis Star Tribune. (Click Publications and search for Star Tribune to limit your search.
Proquest Minneapolis Star Tribune (Archive) This link opens in a new window Find articles from the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1986 to present.

Social Studies - High School

CultureGrams This link opens in a new window CultureGrams is a leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Essays on controversial topics that present multiple sides of current issues.
ProCon.org This link opens in a new window ProCon.org, is a nonprofit nonpartisan public charity, provides professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy.
Proquest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Global newspaper archives stretching back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in full-text format. Includes Minneapolis Star Tribune. (Click Publications and search for Star Tribune to limit your search.
SIRS (Pro/Con Issues) This link opens in a new window Provides relevant and credible information - for, against, or objective - about a broad range of current issues.
Swank Digital Campus (Selected Films) This link opens in a new window This platform is a Netflix-like service for streaming Hollywood films to k-12 schools. Each video in this collection has been purchased for a particular course in the district. DO NOT add a link in your course unless the film is a part of your planned curriculum, PLEASE add a link to the specific video, not the entire collection. ASK your media specialist about ordering films.
Umbra Search African American History This link opens in a new window The University of Minnesota Libraries, in partnership with the Penumbra Theatre Company, is launching Umbra Search African American History, a free and openly available online search tool at www.umbrasearch.org that facilitates broad access to over 400,000 digitized archival materials documenting African American history from more than 1,000 libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions across the United States.

Science High School

Gale OneFile: Science (General Science Collection) This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Science Reference Center™ is a research database that provides easy access to a full-text science-oriented content including hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Math - High School

Desmos Graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more – for free!
Wolfram Alpha (Computational Knowledge Engine) Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own internal knowledge base.

Art - Middle and High School

Health - High School

Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Health topics from mainstream, complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Full-text reports and magazine articles. Content includes images, diagrams, videos, pamphlets, and narrated animations
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

High School Research Tools

College level: Research Databases with magazine and journal articles

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Contains scholarly publications covering all academic disciplines. Includes indexing and abstracts and some full-text articles.
Gale Academic Onefile Select This link opens in a new window Collects scholarly articles from journals and periodicals on a wide variety of topics.

High School level: Research Databases with magazine and journal articles

Explora Teens This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Contains middle and high school-appropriate magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles and also includes primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia.
Gale In Context: High School (Student Resources In Context) This link opens in a new window Contains articles, on a very wide range of topics, from newspapers, magazines, journals and reference collections. Includes audio segments.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. JSTOR is a digital library for the intellectually curious. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
NoodleTools This link opens in a new window Create citations, record and organize notes and manage bibliographies.

Online Writing Lab (OWL) Purdue The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. The site includes guides for research and citations.

Proquest Minneapolis Star Tribune (Archive) This link opens in a new window Find articles from the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1986 to present.
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window Remote username and password Rdale281, Rdale#281 Essays on controversial topics that present multiple sides of current issues.
Proquest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Global newspaper archives stretching back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in full-text format. Includes Minneapolis Star Tribune. (Click Publications and search for Star Tribune to limit your search.
SIRS (Pro/Con Issues) This link opens in a new window Provides relevant and credible information - for, against, or objective - about a broad range of current issues.

Introductory: Research Databases with magazine and journal articles

Gale In Context: Middle School (Research In Context) This link opens in a new window Accesses numerous encyclopedias on a broad range of topics. Searchable by basic, intermediate or advanced levels of articles.

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