BISD Library/Media Services

Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.

Britannica offers hundreds of full-color and black-and-white nonfiction and circulating reference e-books, ranging from pre-K to academic. All of the e-books offered on our site are published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and Britannica Educational Publishing. You can learn more about how to use the Britannica e-book site by taking our  guided tour.   

Made for today’s digital classroom, with extensive, up-to-date information sources, Britannica School is specially designed for differentiated instruction, allowing students to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed. 

Available for:      Elementary  -  Middle School  -  High School.

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EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast.

It’s important that today’s researchers access complete, credible, and up-to-date content. From student favorites like Gale’s In Context suite to our flagship InfoTrac databases, we offer dozens of powerful research platforms to put vetted sources right at your users’ fingertips.

Over 140,000 educational multimedia assets that you can share, download or embed.

Books come to life with this engaging collection of resources, TeachingBooks.net offers every reader the power to enrich their relationship to the books they are reading.

WorldandIKids.com is an unprecedented interdisciplinary resource that aims to provide elementary-level students and teachers with original content and unique features that service both academic and character education needs. 

WorldandISchool.com is an interdisciplinary resource that encompasses a broad range of articles by scholars and experts in their fields. Articles are aligned to each state’s standards for Social Studies, Language Arts, and Science.