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Salem History
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains great historical reference books including: Great Lives From History, The Decades In America, and Milestone Documents. A great place to start your research.
Salem Literature
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the series Critical Survey and Masterplots, great resources for plot summaries, author biographies, and outlines of the major themes discussed in literary works.
Sanborn Maps – Illinois Collection
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape. Come explore Illinois’s rich and diverse building history.
Scholastic BookFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online literacy resource that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks. Reinforces core reading skills and introduces students to a world of knowledge and exploration. Includes helpful educator’s tools.
Scholastic Go!
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Incorporates Grolier Online databases, including Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, American Heritage Children’s Thesaurus, Lands and People, New Book of Knowledge and New Book of Popular Science.
Scholastic Teachables
Use at home? Yes
Description: Worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! Formerly known as Scholastic Printables, access printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade.
Science Reference Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
ScienceFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Highly engaging, interactive, curriculum-driven digital resource with reading levels for students in grades 4 through 9. Includes videos, experiments and information on careers in science.
Shakespeare Survey
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A great resource from Cambridge University Press for students and Shakespeare lovers. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English, and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
Skills First (formerly Optimal Resume)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Create resumes, cover letters, online portfolios and career documents. Practice interviewing skills and even create a video resume. Log in with your Optimal Resume credentials to transfer your documents over to the updated Skills First platform. Association code is “20053”.
Small Engine Repair Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides detailed yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines.