For Middle School

Brainpop is a website with short animated movies for students in grade K-12 together with quizzes covering subjects of science, social studies, English social studies, English, engineering and technology, health and arts and music. Brainpop is also available in BrainPOP Espanol/Spanish and BrainPOP Francais/French

Directory of Open Access Journals (no password required). You can search by browsing Subject Headings

Gizmo​s for Science & Math - Gizmos are interactive math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new learning experiences to the classroom. (Middle and High)

Global Education Research Database (free) More than 7 million "full-text" journal articles, Millions of books, articles and images spanning all historical periods, 15,000 Journals, 250,000 theses and dissertations (Masters, Doctoral), Literature in more than 100 languages and more. 

JSTOR includes more than 1500 journals as well as primary sources and books.

JSTOR Video Tutorials :Check out the advanced search and book searching ones!

Linguascope: Spanish and French resources for language learners.  

National Digital Library (India) - is a digital collection of freely accessible thesis, papers, text books, articles, rare books collected from various libraries in India

Newsela is a database of leveled nonfiction texts for students and teachers. (Middle and High)

New York Times: Sign in with your School Account to peruse through the archives and news coverage of recent events.

New York Digital Library Collection: Includes This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Power Knowledge Earth and Space: Articles, projects, experiments, videos on Earth cycle, eco-system, biomes, energy, space, weather, scientific method, natural disaster, rocks and minerals, and water. (Middle School)

Power Knowledge Life Science: Articles, projects, experiments, videos on animals, classification, food chain, habitat, eco-systems, life cycles, endangered species, survival adaptations, green living, human body and plants.  (Middle School)

Augmented and Virtual Reality Virtual Tours  - Google Expedition List and Google AR Exhibition list and VR for Education

For High School

Directory of Open Access Journals (no password required). You can search by browsing Subject Headings            

Global Education Research Database (free) More than 7 million "full-text" journal articles, Millions of books, articles and images spanning all historical periods, 15,000 Journals, 250,000 theses and dissertations (Masters, Doctoral), Literature in more than 100 languages and more. 

JSTOR includes more than 1500 journals as well as primary sources and books.

JSTOR Video Tutorials: Check out the advanced search and book-searching ones!

National Digital Library (India) - is a digital collection of freely accessible thesis, papers, textbooks, articles, and rare books collected from various libraries in India

Newsela is a database of leveled nonfiction texts for students and teachers. (Middle and High)

New York Times: Sign in with your School Account to peruse through the archives and news coverage of recent events.

New York Digital Library Collection: This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

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AI Research Tools

Elicit: Elicit Tutorials: Elicit will find answers from 200 million papers. Find relevant papers even if they don't match keywords. Elicit uses semantic similarity, which finds papers related to your question even if they don't use the same keywords. For example, it might return papers about “meditation” even if your query only mentioned “mindfulness.”

 Trusted by prestigious institutions such as the UK Government, Google, World Bank, Stanford, NASA, and many more, Elicit.org offers a comprehensive platform for accessing scholarly literature efficiently and effectively. (For the premium version visit the iCommons desk)

Perplexity AI: Perplexity AI unlocks the power of knowledge with information discovery and sharing. Ask anything. Perplexity is not liable for content generated 

Connected Papers: YouTube explanation: Connected Papers is a unique visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work. 

The Consensus app is a mobile or web application that helps groups of people reach a decision through consensus-building. Consensus provides a platform for group discussions, voting, and decision-making. An AI research tool with evidence-based sources.