BadgerLink Resources for Elementary and Middle School Students

TeachingBooks Author Programs
TeachingBooks author programs give every teacher, librarian, staff member, student and family a chance to see and hear directly from the creators of the very best books for children and young adults through original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources.

Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
Searchasaurus is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young students to develop and enhance basic search methodologies. Search results include Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. The EBSCO databases accessible through Searchasaurus include Primary Search and Middle Search Plus as well as a basic dictionary, general encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of animals and an image database.

Kids Search (EBSCO)
Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a visually appealing look and feel, and the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords. The databases indexed by Kids Search include Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Newspaper Source and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Some databases include Lexiles in citation information, providing the educator an estimate of the reading difficulty of the result and the approximate grade level reading ability required for comprehension.

Student Research Center (EBSCO)
Student Research Center provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek from their EBSCO databases. Through the Student Research Center, users can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included within their search results. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. Indexed databases include Middle Search Plus, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Academic Search Elite, Newspaper Source, The Columbia Encyclopedia and Health Source - Consumer Edition.

LitFINDER Kids' Korner
Kids' Korner is a subject hierarchy that provides access to poetry by appealing categories for children. Kids' Corner primary topics are listed in a column to the right-hand side of the LitFINDER homepage. To use this resource, select a topic from the first level such as "Animals." The next level will appear from which you can select "Dogs." Kids' Korner will then give you all poems in the database for which "Dogs" is the subject.

Resources for Elementary & Middle School Students