Tween Digital Resources

Learning

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Britannica School
Students can choose elementary, middle or high school to access age appropriate and up to date information from Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Tutor.com
Free online live chat and email support for learners of all ages.  Tutors offer homework help, review essays, help with test preparation, and review cover letters and resumes.

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Gale In Context: Elementary
Designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Gale in Context: Elementary addresses the way kids learn and conduct research.

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Khan Academy
Practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom

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Learning Express
Helps build skills in math, reading, and grammar. Use this to prepare for exams, including high school equivalency, college entrance, graduate school, career certifications, and licensing. Take practice tests including ACT®, AP®, PSAT®, SAT®, and TASC®.

E-books & Print Books

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OverDrive
Adownloadable audiobook and eBook service offered by the Westchester Library System

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Hoopla
Digital media service provided to you, our patron, through which you may access and enjoy nearly half a million titles, from six different formats: Movies, TV, Music Albums, eAudiobooks, eBooks, and Comics/Graphic novel

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Comics Plus
The new digital revolution bringing thousands of digital graphic novels and comics are only a click away

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YALSA’s Teen Book Finder
A free app to help teens, parents, librarians and library staff, educators, and anyone else who loves YA literature access the past five years’ of YALSA’s awards and lists on their smartphone. Interested? 

STEM

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NASA Citizen Science Projects
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries.

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Zooniverse
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers.

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Code.org
Code.org has a variety of ways for kids to learn to code.  They have online lessons from prekindergarten all the way beyond high school. CS, javascript, you name it, they’ve got it.

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Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a public lab based in San Francisco.  The website offers free activities for kids and adults to explore science and the arts.

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EngineerGirl
Run by the National Academy of Engineering. EngineerGirl focuses on inspiring girls to consider a career in engineering.