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.
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.
Please Note: To use these resources on your school website, please right click on the button and choose, "Copy Shortcut" to copy the website address. Some resources won't work properly on your school website if you copy the website address from the address bar after you open the resource.
Teachers throughout Polk County Schools use the Curriculum Based resources in class. The Teacher provides the login and password for these resources.
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
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.
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
Infobase eBooks are Web-based versions of Infobase Publishing's outstanding print reference books. Infobase offers students, librarians, and educators authoritative, reliable resources supporting the curriculum across a wide range of subject areas.
Grades: Middle, Senior
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, Middle
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
Another great source of cultural, historical, and statistical country information. Includes a new Kids section.
Grades: All Grades
CountryReports provides over 35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world.
Grades: All Grades
The American History database is designed to move students and young adult library patrons beyond memorizing names and dates toward a deeper understanding of America’s fascinating, complex story—its precontact origins, westward expansion, social movements, internal conflicts, and contemporary defining moments.
Grades: Middle, Senior
World History: The Modern Era covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
Grades: Middle, Senior
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
Grades: Middle, Senior
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: All Grades
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.
Grades: Elementary
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, Senior
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, Senior
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, Senior
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: Middle, Senior
Full featured online encyclopedia and reference center. Resource selection page.
Grades: All Grades
Based on World Book's award-winning Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources.
Grades: Elementary
Includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
Grades: Middle
Designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
Grades: Senior
Includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
Grades: Middle
Dramatic Learning contains lesson plans tailored to meet curriculum-based standards and specifically related to their play unit’s content. Nearly all these lesson plans contain both an Educator Page on-site and a Student Page as a downloadable Word document.
Grades: All Grades
The Early World of Learning offers busy educators many stimulating ways of teaching concepts and reinforcing skills in the classroom.
Grades: Elementary
Offers World Book's excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
Grades: All Grades
Offers World Book's excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
Grades: All Grades
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