iCommons

EAB's Common Centers of Information are our main learning spaces. Also known as iCommons, the spaces are a collaborative learning environment designed to support our students in engaging with information. Our collection includes print materials, eBooks, and databases that students can access and use to create new knowledge and understandings.

Important Info

Hours: 7:45 am to 4:45 pm during normal school days.
Students may check out up to seven for fifteen days. It is always possible to renew materials.

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Lower School

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E-BOOK COLLECTION

READING LIST

Online Resources

Amazon Audibles: Children, tweens, and teens free audible stories.

BrainPOP: Offers animated, curriculum-based content covering a wide variety of subject areas For the little ones, check BrainPOP Jr, and for the English learners, visit BrainPOP ELL.

BrainPOP Jr.: Animated, curriculum-based content covering a wide variety of subject areas.

BrainPOP ELL: Animated, curriculum-based content covering a wide variety of subject areas.

Britannica Escola: Britannica Escola Online is the Portuguese platform for Britannica School Edition.

Britannica School Edition: Encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources.

Epic!: Thousands of books, videos, and quizzes from leading publishers to help kids everywhere read, learn and grow. On the top menu, choose CLASS CODE and type: bkv2524, then click on "Guest".

EXPLORA Primary Schools: Articles from hundreds of popular magazines and newspapers as well as encyclopedias, biographies, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, scholarly journals, and eBooks.

Flipster: online magazines:

Modern Painters - international source for analysis of contemporary art and culture
Forbes - coverage of global business stories
Fortune - covers the entire field of business, including specific companies and business trends, tech innovation prominent business leaders, and new ideas shaping the global marketplace
Beanz - about learning to code, computer science, and how we use technology in our daily lives
Faces - get an honest and unbiased view of how children in other countries and world regions live
Cricket - quality fiction and classic literature and nonfiction stories on culture, history, science, and the arts
Dig into History - focuses on an archaeological discovery or topic related to the issue's theme

PebbleGO: Award winning PreK-3 database for reading and research on Animals, Science, and Social Studies. Databases are simple to navigate and offer key reading supports such as read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.

Picture Book & Read Aloud videos

Brightly Storytime Podcasts (available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and Anchor)

Brightly Youtube Channel: full-length picturebooks read out loud.

Harper Kids: read alouds.

Indianapolis Public Library: more than 100 titles.

Kate Messner : compiling videos featuring authors and illustrators sharing their work and resources.

Kidlit TV: a great compilation.

Mo Willems Lunch Doodles: invites you into his studio, doodles, and teaches you how to draw Elephant.

Rivet: A free app with over 3500 free levelled books for young children

Scholastic Learn at Home: 20 days of free resources by grade level.

Scholastic Weston Woods: audiovisual adaptations.

Storyline online: some great titles.

Storytime with Bill: from Little Brown Books.

Art For Kids Hub

Alphablocks

Numberjacks

Numberblocks

Kids Vs Life (phonics)

SciShow Kids

Finding Stuff Out

National Geographic Kids

Kids Science

Crash Course Kids

Math Games

Storytellers

Upper School

Library Catalog

E-BOOK COLLECTION

READING LIST

Online Resources

Amazon Audibles: children, tweens, and teens free audible stories.

BRITANNICA SCHOOL EDITION: encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources.

Churchill Archives for Schools: provides resources specially written and developed by leading history educators to support the teaching of History at secondary level.

EBSCOhost and EXPLORA Secondary Schools: Articles from hundreds of popular magazines and newspapers as well as encyclopedias, biographies, radio, and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, scholarly journals, and eBooks.

Flipster: online magazines:

Folha de São Paulo: Brazilian daily newspaper.

JSTOR: an online library of academic research.

Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse Sets: The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page.

The Economist: offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology.

FAQ

Help With Citations

At EAB, the citing format follows the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style.

Below you can find resources to help with citations. Contact Librarian Karla Veras if you have any questions.

What are Academic/Scholarly Journals?

Where can I find help with my IB Extended Essay resources?

What are the best ways to make citations?

EASYBIB: provides citation, note-taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. In Google Docs, you can add the add-on for EasyBIB Bibliographic creator. From the menu along the top of the application, click on "Add-Ons "Get Add-Ons" and search for it.
ZoteroBib: is a free service that helps you quickly create a bibliography in any citation style.
Citethisforme is a citation tool.

How can identify bias?

ERGO: research resources results
It's important to understand bias when you are researching because it helps you see the purpose of a text, whether it's a piece of writing, a painting, a photograph - anything.

Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation: Learning to Critically Evaluate Media Sources. Cornell University Library

How to Evaluate Information Sources: Identify Bias. New Jersey Institute of Technology

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iCommons

Important Info

Hours: 7:45 am to 4:45 pm during normal school days. Students may check out up to seven for fifteen days. It is always possible to renew materials.

Catalogs

Hours: 7:45 am to 4:45 pm during normal school days.
Students may check out up to seven for fifteen days. It is always possible to renew materials.