A-Z Resources

Maps, charts, timelines and primary sources on African American History

Ben's Guide - Learn about Ben Franklin’s experiences as a printer, statesman, librarian and inventor.

CIA World FactBook - The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

ConneCT kids portal to all things Connecticut.

CT State Library Research Resources for Elementary School

CT State Library Research Resources for Middle School

Ferguson Library Digital Archives - Historical photographs of Stamford

HubbleSite - Images from and information about the groundbreaking telescope.

JSTOR - Search for articles in academic journals, images, letters, and primary sources.

Provides access to more than 12 million digitized scholarly journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 different disciplines.

Library of Congress Map Collection - A vast collection of maps curated and housed by the Library of Congress

NASA for Kids - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s kids site.

National Geographic for Kids - Web companion to the popular kids magazine, this site has information, games, quizzes, videos and more.

National Inventors Hall of Fame - At home learning resources on inventors and inventions

Learn how to access digital media on Hoopla, Libby (OverDrive) and Kanopy. There are also tutorials for Consumer Reports, Tutor.com, Ancestry.com and many more online resources.

Ology - The American Museum of Natural History’s kid site- with games, quizzes and tons of info.

Magazines for elementary school

Magazines for middle school

Scholastic GO! contains more than 115,000 articles covering every core-curriculum subject.