Research Resources

This week 4^th and 5^th grade students have been learning about all of the wonderful research resources we have available.  Our Library Research Tools can be accessed via http://k12.pisd.edu/home. Under Quick Links click on Library Resources à Search Prek-5^th grade Library Catalog à Christie à Research Tools.  There you will find all sorts of resources.  This week we concentrated on the online encyclopedias such as World Book and Britannica. These can all be accessed at home using the username planoisd and password discover.

We also discussed using their textbooks as a resource as well as other search engines besides Google. Some kid friendly search engines that work well are infotopia, kidsclick, kidrex and wolframalpha. We talked about how these search engines would give them more accurate, relevant, and age appropriate results than Google.