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Contemporary World Subject Guides: Junior School Digital Resources

Junior Library Digital Resources

The LCC Library Staff is happy to offer digital resources to Junior School students. These can be used in school and at home to augment students' learning in the classroom.

Off-Campus Use

Students in Kindergarten through Grade 3: For access, parents should refer to the communication received from your child's teacher with their login information. If you do not have this communication, contact the Head Librarian.

Students in Grades 4-6: Students can access the list of passwords by logging into their school e-mail accounts, then clicking here. (Remember, it will not work unless you have logged in!)

Reading

Sora

Use the Sora app to access LCC's Overdrive collection of top e-books and audiobooks, which are continually updated by the library staff. Read or listen to bestselling novels, non-fiction, and picture books in English and French.

Click here for a video tutorial on how to download and use Sora.

Tumble Book Library

Tumble Book Library is a curated database of children’s e-books, with over 1,100 titles for Grades K-6, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, non-fiction books, graphic novels, and National Geographic videos in English, French, and Spanish.

Research Resources

CultureGrams

A geography resource for Grades 3-8 covering over 200 countries, the Canadian provinces, and all 50 American states. These reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available.

Encyclopedias

World Book Kids

World Book Kids is an online encyclopedia geared at students in Grades 1-4, with simple, easy-to-understand articles on a variety of topics in English.

World Book Student

Intended for students in Grades 5-8, World Book Student provides more in-depth articles, over 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures, a built-in dictionary and atlas, and a citation generator.

L’Encyclopédie Découverte

A full-featured, beginner-level reference source, Découverte provides users with a database written at basic French reading levels. Seamlessly integrates with World Book Kids for parallel English-language content.

Streaming Services

Available only on the LCC campus.

Idéllo

A digital platform of Canadian French resources for K-12 students across disciplines, including literature, history, science, math, and technology.

Curio

A bilingual streaming service featuring award-winning documentaries, news, drama, and children's programming from CBC and Radio-Canada.

NFB Campus

Campus is a collection of 5,200 National Film Board of Canada documentaries, animated films, interactive productions, and short films in English and French. Selections include both recent and historical productions.

 

 

NoodleTools is a citation and research tool that helps you:

  • Brainstorm and organize your ideas
  • Create an outline
  • Generate a Works Cited and in-text citations
  • Link your sources to your ideas

Lower Canada College Libraries

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