UW Lab School Research Projects: 5/6 Nonfiction Research

Search for people - both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor.

Find information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and websites. Content includes learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features. Britannica School offers content targeted towards varying grade levels.

Developed especially for beginning researchers, this database covers a wide variety of topics.

Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they've never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

A broad-based general research experience aimed at the middle school researcher.

Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating reference, news, and magazine articles as well as a wide variety of multimedia content such as videos and images.

Covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.