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Pattonville School District provides wonderful online resources for Pattonville students and staff at school AND home. This page will highlight new additions and special features.
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Online Resources at info.psdr3.org
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
EBSCO Searchasaurus includes Primary Search, a full text for 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily. This resource also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, a dictionary and a picture collection.
EBSCOhost includes MasterFILE Elite and Academic Search Elite: Multi-disciplinary databases providing full text for nearly 3,000 periodicals with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Also included is the full-text from 38 reference books and over 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily. Also included: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Clinical Pharmacology, Alt HealthWatch, Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and EBSCO Animals.

Online Resources at info.psdr3.org
The Gale Discovering Collection is now available to students and teachers, grades 6-12. The collection includes information from over 25 valuable reference sources including:

• American Eras
• EXPLORING Novels
• EXPLORING Poetry
• EXPLORING Shakespeare
• EXPLORING Short Stories
• Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd. edition
• Jr Worldmark Ency. of Canadian Provinces
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Jr Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• UXL Multicultural
• UXL Science
• Worldmark Ency. of the Canadian Provinces
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Worldmark Ency. of Cultures and Daily Life
• DISCovering Authors
• DISCovering Biography
• DISCovering Multicultural America
• DISCovering Science
• DISCovering U.S. History
• DISCovering World History
• Newsmakers
• UXL Biographies
• Junior DISCovering Authors

Click on your school under the Gale Discovering Collection Heading. This resource is also available to you and your students from at home.

Cobblestone Online is a unique database of thousands of articles from the award-winning magazines of Cobblestone Publishing. Now with just a few clicks on the Web, you can access an entire collection of articles from Cobblestone, Faces, Calliope, Classical Calliope, Odyssey, AppleSeeds, Dig, Footsteps, and California Chronicles magazines. The database includes comprehensive information in the following main subject areas: American history, contemporary world cultures, geography, world history, physical science, astronomy, earth science, archaeology, African American history, California history, and general social studies and science topics. The user name is pattonville and the password is pirates Cobblestone Online is available at http://info.psdr3.org.
CultureGrams, an outstanding database of geographic and cultural information, has three major components, the World Edition, States Edition and Kid's Edition, which provide a wide variety of information including maps, statistics, glossary, history, images, symbols, time lines and more. In addition there is a photo gallery, biographical index, and recipe collection. Your school librarian can provide you with an electronic copy of the Teacher's Guide for this resource upon request. To explore this database, visit http://info.psdr3.org

Online Resources at info.psdr3.org
The AccuNet™ /AP® Multimedia Archive is the most extensive online collection of copyright-released multimedia material available. It contains The Associated Press' current year's photo library and a wide selection of images from their vast negative and print library, dating from the 1840s. The Multimedia Archive contains over 750,000 photos and continues to grow daily as hundreds of new photos are added to the Archive. This is a great resource to bring history alive, available for unlimited access for online review and printing, with quick and easy search functions. To take a closer look go to http://info.psdr3.org or contact your building librarian.

Cable in the Classroom
Cable TV programming information can be found at:
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm

Virtually Missouri is a centralized access point to the special digitized collections of Missouri's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums is provided via the Missouri Library Network Corporation. It contains thousands of pictures, maps, documents and other information about Missouri.

Cable in the Classroom
Cable TV programming information can be found at:
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm

The Cooperating School District provides the UnitedStreaming video collection which contains over 15,000 video clips for teacher and student use in projects, presentations and instruction. For a password, contact your school librarian.

Cable in the Classroom
There is a wide-variety of programming about Black History Month. Please see attached for details.

ESPN will host a series of programming about the physics behind sports. Please see the attached document AL0206Science.pdf for details.

Cable TV programming information can be found at:
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm

Each school has a professional library located in the school library. Much of the material in these collections is about the profession of teaching. Other titles may be of use to those working on advanced degrees. Please feel free to recommend new titles to your building librarian. Titles from these collections are included in Meriwether, Pattonville's Online Catalog (http://catalog.psdr3.org) and can be interlibrary loaned from other schools in the district. Please see your librarian for details.

Current news about St. Louis, Kansas City and Missouri is available through a NewsBank product that features articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1989-Curr) and the Kansas City Star (1991-Current). Each source offers the complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. News Missouri features news articles about regional and state events and issues from wire service and state newspapers. This includes articles of importance to Missouri from surrounding states. This resource is available at http://info.psdr3.org.

Meriwether is the district's on-line catalog of library materials where over 200,000 carefully selected books, web sites, periodicals, and video resources are cataloged and described. Students, teachers and other district patrons can search by individual school collections or by the entire district with this catalog. In addition to building collections, which include many professional materials, there are special collections for math and science, communication arts, professional development (and library services), and Parents-As-Teachers. Meriwether is available at http://info.psdr3.org.

The Gale Discovering Collection is now available to students and teachers, grades 6-12. The collection includes information from over 25 valuable reference sources including:

Click on your school under the Gale Discovering Collection Heading. This resource is also available to you and your students from at home

Online Resources at info.psdr3.org
EBSCO Searchasaurus includes Primary Search, a full text for 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily. This resource also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, a dictionary and a picture collection.

EBSCOhost includes MasterFILE Elite and Academic Search Elite: Multi-disciplinary databases providing full text for nearly 3,000 periodicals with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Also included is the full-text from 38 reference books and over 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily. Also included: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Clinical Pharmacology, Alt HealthWatch, Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and EBSCO Animals.

CultureGrams, an outstanding database of geographic and cultural information, has three major components, the World Edition, States Edition and Kid's Edition, which provide a wide variety of information including maps, statistics, glossary, history, images, symbols, time lines and more. In addition there is a photo gallery, biographical index, and recipe collection. Your school librarian can provide you with an electronic copy of the Teacher's Guide for this resource upon request. To explore this database, visit http://info.psdr3.org

MedlinePlus is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be found at http://info.psdr3.org

The AccuNet™ /AP® Multimedia Archive is the most extensive online collection of copyright-released multimedia material available. It contains The Associated Press' current year's photo library and a wide selection of images from their vast negative and print library, dating from the 1840s. The Multimedia Archive contains over 750,000 photos and continues to grow daily as hundreds of new photos are added to the Archive. This is a great resource to bring history alive, available for unlimited access for online review and printing, with quick and easy search functions. To take a closer look go to http://info.psdr3.org or contact your building librarian.

The Gale Discovering Collection is now available to students and teachers, grades 6-12. The collection includes information from over 25 valuable reference sources including:
• American Eras
• EXPLORING Novels
• EXPLORING Poetry
• EXPLORING Shakespeare
• EXPLORING Short Stories
• Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd. edition
• Jr Worldmark Ency. of Canadian Provinces
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Jr Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• UXL Multicultural
• UXL Science
• Worldmark Ency. of the Canadian Provinces
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Worldmark Ency. of Cultures and Daily Life
• DISCovering Authors
• DISCovering Biography
• DISCovering Multicultural America
• DISCovering Science
• DISCovering U.S. History
• DISCovering World History
• Newsmakers
• UXL Biographies
• Junior DISCovering Authors
Click on your school under the Gale Discovering Collection Heading. This resource is also available to you and your students from at home.

An updated version of Grolier Online is now available. Grolier Online includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. This resource provides outstanding background information on almost every topic imaginable. This may be the best place for students to begin any research project.

The Gale Discovering Collection is now available to students and teachers, grades 6-12. The collection includes information from over 25 valuable reference sources including:
• American Eras
• EXPLORING Novels
• EXPLORING Poetry
• EXPLORING Shakespeare
• EXPLORING Short Stories
• Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd. edition
• Jr Worldmark Ency. of Canadian Provinces
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Jr Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• UXL Multicultural
• UXL Science
• Worldmark Ency. of the Canadian Provinces
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• Worldmark Ency. of Cultures and Daily Life
• DISCovering Authors
• DISCovering Biography
• DISCovering Multicultural America
• DISCovering Science
• DISCovering U.S. History
• DISCovering World History
• Newsmakers
• UXL Biographies
• Junior DISCovering Authors
Click on your school under the Gale Discovering Collection Heading. This resource is also available to you and your students from at home.

Please check with your school's media specialist for the at home password.

Cable in the Classroom
Cable TV programming information can be found at:
http://www.ciconline.org/AboutCIC/Publications/accesslearning.htm