California's K-12 Digital Resources

The State of California has provided SMUSD with access to online educational content from Britannica, ProQuest, TeachingBooks and Gale.  These resources can be accessed these resources by laptop, tablet or phone — at school, at the library or at home. 

California's K-12 Digital Resources

Open eBooks

Thanks to President Obama's Open eBook initiative, Title 1 schools can sign up for children to check out current ebooks supplied by a variety of publishers for free!

http://openebooks.net/

Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy is a project that provides online books that include audio in multiple languages and ASL videos, celebrating different cultures and providing language support for English Language Learners.

http://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

Search Engines - Infotopia

Infotopia is another search engine created by a librarian. You can find a lot of great information here.

http://www.infotopia.info/

Search Engines - KidzSearch

This site features the same trusted high-quality search results as Google are returned, but without adult content mixed in them.

https://www.kidzsearch.com/

Atlapedia - Maps of all kinds

Atlapedia provides brief information about every country in the world, including political and physical maps.

http://www.atlapedia.com

Dictionary Website

This dictionary provides definitions and synonyms just like a print dictionary, but there is a link to hear the pronunciation too.

http://dictionary.reference.com

Rhyming Dictionary

Everyone can write poems with this great website. Just don't look for a rhyme for orange...there isn't one!

http://www.rhymezone.com/

San Marcos Public Library

The San Marcos branch of the County Library has the World Book Online. Just type in your library card number, and use this great resource at home. Don't have a library card yet? Stop by the library, it is open 7 days a week!

http://sdcl.org/locations_SM.html