Reference & Background
Reference & Background
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EMC - Educational Media Collection
The Education Materials Center (EMC) provides services and collections for education students, faculty, and staff of UW Oshkosh and the community. The EMC website provides access to an extensive array of education resources. Among the different types of resources found here are those that provide information about children's and YA literature; lesson plans appropriate to all levels of the PreK-12 curriculum; academic standards; children's book awards; children's and YA authors and illustrators; and a broad range of PreK-12 bibliographies.Access to online resources and link provided by the Educational Media Collection at Polk Library. -
Learning Express
This resource provides substantial online Praxis practice tests. Scored instantly. Type praxis in the search box of the database to access tests. (This database is provided by BadgerLink.)This resource provides substantial online Praxis practice tests which are scored instantly. -
Encyclopedia Britannica - High School
Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's High School Edition. This unique database also offers high-quality online learning materials that are developed by teachers and curriculum experts.Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's High School Edition. -
Teaching Books.net
An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K?12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. -
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), your resource for an extensive array of information about children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. The database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. This database also lists awards, honors and prizes that books have won.Full text children's book reviews from board books to novels and non-fiction. -
History Reference Center
A robust, history reference tool, well-suited to secondary eduction. Offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical videoWell-suited to secondary education, this database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers as well as full text for over 150 history periodicals.
