Polk County Public Schools, Students
Welcome to the Students Online Resources page. We have two main areas of resources sponsored by Polk County Schools, Curriculum Based Resources and Library Research Resources. The navigation to the left will guide you to additional online resources.
Teachers throughout Polk County Schools use the Curriculum Based resources in class. The Teacher provides the login and password for these resources.
The Library Research Resources are available to all Polk County Students; some require a username and password, which may be obtained from the school library media specialist. This area provides resources for all subject areas and grade levels.
FCAT Explorer is an online educational program for Florida's students that reinforces reading and math skills outlined in the Sunshine State Standards. Science skill practice is available at the 8th grade level.
Grades/Availability: All students grade 3-12 with teacher provided login information. www.fcatexplorer.com
EasyTech is an online Sunshine State Standards aligned curriculum that provides technology skills training to K-8 students.
Grades/Availability: Middle school students in selected courses with teacher provided login information. www.learning.com
Gizmos is a collection of online mathematics and science simulations that power inquiry and the understanding of abstract concepts.
Grades/Availability: High School students in selected mathematics and science courses with teacher provided login. www.explorelearning.com
Odyssey is a Sunshine State Standards aligned PreK-8 curriculum that provides interactive, self-paced activities in mathematics, reading, language arts and science.
Grades/Availability: Grades PK-8 with teacher provided login. Parent login is also available and allows parental monitoring of student progress. odyssey.polk-fl.net
Blackboard is used by teachers to collaborate with their students online.
Grades/Availability: Grades K-12 with teacher provided login. blackboard.polk-fl.net
These sites are for use by all students of Polk County schools. Some require a password. This may be obtained from your school library media specialist.
Destiny is used for the Polk County Schools district library catalog. Select your school from the list. If you want to check out a book, contact your media specialist with the title, author, and call number.
Grades: All Grades
Imagine a giant card catalog or electronic catalog that contains the records of all school library media centers in Florida! And you can ask to borrow any of them! That's SUNLINK! Includes Educational online resources selected by the Department of Education. Including; Ask a Librarian, Ask for Kids, FINDS, Florida Electronic Library Kids’ Search Tools and many other resources.
Grades: All Grades
The Polk County Library Cooperative (PCLC) is a group of libraries and government entities who have chosen to unite and cooperate to provide excellent library services to Polk County residents, businesses, and organizations.
Grades: All Grades
Click the icons below to access the online subscriptions offered by Polk County Schools. These sites are for use by all students of Polk County schools. Some require a password. This may be obtained from your school library media specialist.
Here you will find several databases that will give you access to current information for any subject area. You can search one at a time or search multiple databases with one search.
Power Search for full text magazine articles including:
Grades: All Grades (includes Staff Resources)
Searching for Accelerated Reader books is fun and easy with this free online tool.
Grades: All Grades
Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows Floridians to chat live with a librarian for immediate assistance. A trained information professional can guide you to the answers you need in minutes.
Grades: All Grades
The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues.
Grades: All Grades
Connect To over 180,000 of the best online resources, aligned with state standards and organized by readability and grade level. Each resource is carefully selected by educators to ensure it is safe, age-appropriate and 100% academically relevant.
Grades: All Grades, Staff Resource
TeachingBooks.net is a time-saving portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.
Grades: All Grades
A collection of electronic books offered by Polk County Schools. Books are separated by category and come in English and Spanish.
Grades: Elementary
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.
Grades: Elementary
Seachasaurus makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
Grades: Elementary
Weekly Reader Express is a searchable compendium of articles, teacher's guides, and reproducible activities from eleven Weekly Reader classroom magazines - over 7 million words in all - from 2000 to the present.
Grades: All Grades, Staff Resource
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated,
talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format students will love.
This resource is provided by the Lakeland Public Library
Grades: Elementary
The home page of World Book Kids has a large search box at the top of every page in the site. Users can enter search terms into the search box to search for articles, dictionary definitions, pictures, and maps.
Grades: Elementary
CountryReports.org is the leader in providing Cultural, Historical and Statistical information for students of all ages. With over 30,000 pages of information, students can gain a unique insight into the everyday life and cultures of the peoples of the world.
Grades: All Grades
Another great source of cultural, historical, and statistical country information. Includes a new Kids section.
Grades: All Grades
Gale Databases - This is the Product Selection Page for the Gale online resources. From here you can search all the databases below from one search as well as additional databases. This is a great place to start researching.
Grades: High School
Gale Databases - Junior. This is the Product Selection Page for the Gale Junio online resources. From here you can search all the databases below from one search as well as additional databases. This is a great place to start researching.
Grades: Middle School
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Grades: Middle and High School
History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Grades: Middle and High School
History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronological research materials for the study of world history.
Grades: Middle and High School
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Grades: Middle and High School
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier database covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center helps students develop critical-thinking and information literacy skills by bringing together a variety of information on social issues.
Grades: Middle and High School
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Grades: Middle and High School
Student Resource Center - Junior offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips.
Grades: Middle School
Student Resource Center - Gold offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
Grades: High School
Full featured online encyclopedia and reference center. Use the links below to access the five World Book areas:
Grades: All Grades