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Research Resources

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Resources needing a password are intended for the sole use of Grandview Park Baptist School and its families.
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Search engine powered by Yahoo which generates funds for Grandview Park Baptist School.

Contains more than 7.8 million clipart images, animations, photos, fonts, and sounds. Images are copyright cleared for use in newsletters, posters, classroom projects, websites, or bulletin boards.

Using Soundzabound music provides protection against music copyright violations. It works with Macs or PCs. Teachers and students are encouraged to use it when creating podcasts, PowerPoints, videos, movies, Web pages, etc. You'll find many different genres of music to fit your needs.


Searchasaurus

A Search Engine designed with a kid in mind. An encyclopedia and dictionary are just a click away. Search for information using the Middle Search Plus for junior high, or with Primary Search for elementary.
A collection of over 750,000 photos, plus text, graphics and audio files. Content goes back prior to the Civil War and as current as today. Content may be used for any classroom project.
World Book Online includes more than 9500 pictures and maps, 115 videos and animations, 9300 sounds, 129 panoramic views and more than 100 simulated historic web sites. It contains 60,000 cross-referenced links and 248,000 hyperlinked dictionary definitions.
Contains complete full-text coverage of the Des Moines Register's local and regional news, dating back to 1999.
Contains student resources for elementary, middle and high school levels that include magazine and newspaper articles, speeches, historical documents, reference books, book reviews, photos, images, maps, and charts.
A comprehensive data source for worldwide weather information, live weather radar and information going back for ten years.
K-8 9-Adult
NoveList helps students and teachers find fiction books based a topic of interest or on books they have already read. Readers can search for books by title, author or by simply describing a book they would like to read.
The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database (mainly educational information) of more than one million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
An online training database of over 2000 tutorial movies. The site breaks down software programs into fast-loading tutorial movies played over the Internet. It actually shows you how to use a program accompanied by narration.
Multimedia resources (video clips, photos, and more) for the classroom and professional development. Search by topic and limit by grade level.

Search all things education: topics, funding, research, and a lot more.
They have done the searching so you don't have to.

Locate websites which have been reviewed by Heartland AEA. Search by topic, author, or date. Select web sites under “Format”.
GPBS Wi-fi Link to specific websites for Grandview Park Baptist classroom use.