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The Michigan Electronic Library

MEL. The Michigan Electronic Library. Mel.org. For Michigan residents only!. It’s free!. Contains: Articles from books, pictures, newspapers and magazines. Maps Video and audio transcripts of TV and radio shows. . http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/k6/do/search.

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The Michigan Electronic Library

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  1. MEL The Michigan Electronic Library Mel.org For Michigan residents only! It’s free!

  2. Contains: Articles from books, pictures, newspapers and magazines. Maps Video and audio transcripts of TV and radio shows.

  3. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/k6/do/search Type in a word or question Search box wow You can limit your answer to books, magazines, newspapers, maps, pictures, audio/video, and or transcripts from TV and radio. In the advanced search you can also put in dates. This is a good place to search for current events!

  4. Good elibrary question: Should schools have uniforms? Limit your answers to the first 50. This is the first response, from a magazine: School Uniforms: Awesome-or Awful?; Tarshis, LaurenScholastic Scope   11-21-2011MORE AND MORE SCHOOLS ARE TELLING STUDENTS WHAT TO WEAR. BY LAUREN TARSHIS

  5. Has a graphic interface, You can move from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree., Content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more!

  6. Kids INfoBits You can click on the picture for Social Studies information. You can also type in a search term: Social Studies, Us History, Declaration of Independence, leads to this citation: "The Declaration of Independence: From Colonies to States." First Facts About U.S. History. Online Edition. Blackbirch Press, 2003.   Reproduced in Kids InfoBits.  Detroit:  Gale, 2011.   http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

  7. Kids INfoBits is a good place to go for research on school subjects.

  8. Country Information! Includes: the World Edition, States, and Canadian Provinces Downloadable slideshows and streaming videos, Build-your-own sortable data tables and graphs, Interviews with native children and adults, printable maps and flags, Sound files for the national anthems and country names.

  9. Great place to find pictures! Narrow your search from the world, to a continent, to a country. You can also look for information by typing in a search term.

  10. To Sum Up: • Mel.org gives Michigan residents access to many databases. • Elibrary elementary, Culturegrams, and Kids Infobits are especially for elementary school.(That’s YOU!)

  11. All three databases are full text • You can find information in all of them by typing a search term in a search box. • Kids Infobits also has a subject tree. Find your information by narrowing your subject.

  12. Kidsinfobit is good for current AND historical events • Elibrary is good for current events • Culturegramsis for country information only

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