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School Edition provides over 2.6 million clipart images, photos, fonts, multimedia files, and sound files for students to use in projects, posters, websites, reports and more - whatever they can imagine - all royalty free! This is a subscription service provided for use by the students of the School District of Waukesha. Contact your child's school for a user name and password if accessing from home.
School Edition provides over 2.6 million clipart images, photos, fonts, multimedia files, and sound files for students to use in projects, posters, websites, reports and more - whatever they can imagine - all royalty free! This is a subscription service provided for use by the students of the School District of Waukesha.

CultureGrams

A subscription service provided for the students of the School District of Waukesha. Contact your child's school for a user name and password if accessing from home.

CultureGrams goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 187 countries and all 50 United States. Reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated every year. The resource includes unlimited printing rights, along with exclusive online features: worldwide photo gallery, outline maps, famous people biographies, and a unique recipe collection that offers five homegrown recipes for every country in the database. Plus, sort-and-export (create-your-own) data tables help put dozens of facts into perspective.

CultureGrams consist of the three databases; World Edition, Kids Edition, States Edition

World Edition contains reports on 187 countries and cultures, focusing on 25 categories including history, personal appearance, gestures, family, economy, and more. Statistical tables and an extensive glossary make the World Edition perfect for student projects, research, and more.

Kids Edition is a collection of 68 country reports for upper elementary-aged children. Each report provides up-to-date, engaging cultural information, complete with images, maps, historical timeline, fun facts, and sections on history, population, "life as a kid," and more.

States Edition features colorful, easy-to-read state information elementary-aged students covering each U.S. state and the District of Columbia. Information includes maps, flags, symbols, and sections on history, economy, geography, population, and more.

Provinces Edition features colorful, easy-to-read Canadian province information for elementary-aged students. Information includes maps, flags, symbols, and sections on history, foods, sports teams, population, and more.

Discovery Education Streaming

A subscription service provided by the School District of Waukesha to its staff and students. Contact your school library for a username and password.Discovery Streaming provides a wealth of resources for use in the classroom. Discovery Education streaming integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 41,000 content-specific clips tied directly state and national standards. It also provides images for use in student projects and an Assignment Builder feature for staff.
Discovery Streaming provides a wealth of resources for use in the classroom. Discovery Education integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 41,000 content-specific clips tied directly state and national standards. It also provides images for use in student projects and an Assignment Builder feature for staff.

Tumblebooks and Tumblereadables

TumbleBooks is an online library of animated, talking picture books that kids will love. TumblebookReadables is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary through high school students. Books feature adjustable text and audio narration.

BrainPop

BrainPOP delivers animated, curriculum-based content in a way that engages students and boosts achievement. Students can access videos, quizzes, timelines, experiments and activity pages related to hundreds of topics.

SDW students have access to BrainPOP from 7 am– 5:30 pm.

Encylcopedia Britanica

netTrekker
This is a search engine designed for use by students. Over 180,000 online resources which are reviewed and selected by educators are available to users. Students can access this resource from home or school but are required to login. Student login information can be obtained from the school library media center.

netTrekker has many features not available to commonly used search engines. The keyword or phrase search will give you relevant and manageable results from its educator-selected sites. There are grade level tabs that will let you explore online resources by grade level: Elementary, Middle, or High School. A readability support function lets you filter content so it is appropriate to a students reading level. Additional audio text-to speech support is available to read back text in the web site. Finally there is a dictionary / translation hot key that gets definitions and/or translations for any word on a website.

Grolier Online

A subscription service that provides online encyclopedias to the students in the School District of Waukesha. To access Grolier online from home click here

La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre is Grolier Online's Spanish-language encyclopedia. La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre online now features-- articles, images, timelines covering world history, Spanish-language news stories, a dynamic Spanish atlas, and the "Aula de español" module, developed for Spanish-language learners.

Encyclopedia Americana is a standard in school, academic, and public libraries, and is easy to search online. This database helps middle- to upper-grade students find a wealth of information to assist with homework and research projects. Further Reading: Articles link to OCLC's WorldCat® online union catalog.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is a quick reference with rich media and news for students. This powerful database reduces search time across a wide variety of digital media.

How-to-Cite-this-Article teaches students how to cite references correctly. Videos, animations, dynamic maps and sound all add richness to this encyclopedia!

World Book
This is an online reference Center is a subscription service provided for the students of the School District of Waukesha. Contact your child's school library media specialist for a user name and password if accessing from home.

World Book Student Resources provide a collection of tools and information to aid you in finding topics for study, conducting research, and reporting. World Book Parent Resources help parents help their children with schoolwork. Users can search or browse for topics or find links to Special Reports in the Related Information box within many World Book articles. World Book provides help for school projects with special online features filled with World Book articles, multimedia, and interactive quizzes. The Media Showcase demonstrates the richness of World Book's media, and how many users' questions can be answered by the media.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

DPI has implemented a new data collection system (ISES) to complete a more updated school performance report. That information is located on the state's website, which has information as current as the 2010-11 school year.

District Statistics

Student Enrollment:
12,720 students

20% minority students,
22% students qualify for free or reduced meals
39 languages spoken by students
12% special education students
Bilingual programming (Spanish language) in three elementary schools
English-as-a-second language programming (all languages) at one elementary school, one middle school and one high school.

Schools: 28 schools

14 elementary schools (grades 4K-5)
3 middle schools (grades 6-8)
3 high schools (grades 9-12)
6 charter schools

Graduation rate: 97% of high school students

Graduation requirements: 25 high school credits to graduate (state requires 21 credits).

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