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Get free one-on-one homework help from a live online tutor. Tutors are available for all-subjects grades k-college on the Brainfuse platform. Make flashcards, create a whiteboard, or make a virtual study room for you and your friends. Help available in Spanish and English every day from 2 to 11 p.m. MST
This service is available to Boulder Public Library account holders and BVSD students who attend school within the Boulder city limits. Need a library card? Set up your free Boulder Public Library account today.
- U.S. History In Context This link opens in a new window
Put the tools of the historian into the hands of students. Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, U.S. History in Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, people, and more. - Explora for Middle School Students This link opens in a new window
Easy-to-use features and age-appropriate content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books. Explora offers easy to browse categories, citation help, topic overviews and Spanish language translation for entries. - History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Covering both U.S History and World topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents. - Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Meet the people who made history! Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, alongside primary sources, multimedia, videos, audio selections, images, and magazine and journal articles - National Geographic Kids Edition This link opens in a new window
Includes NG's Kids magazine edition, book publications on peoples, animals, and places, as well as videos and images. - History eBook collection This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of ebooks, including American Decades Primary Sources
- Novelist K-8 This link opens in a new window
A trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for middle school and younger readers.. Find books that interest you. Parents and teachers can also find tools to teach with fiction books and engage young readers.
- eBooks & eAudio from Overdrive
Overdrive eBooks and eAudio for middle grade readers.
NOTE: If you are a student in BVSD, you can use the SORA app and your Student ID to access the library's Overdrive collection. Ask your teacher about SORA and the public library.
- OverDrive Magazines This link opens in a new window
Over 3,000 titles, including top titles like: US Weekly, National Geographic,
New Yorker, Vanity Fair Rolling Stone
All magazines are available as simultaneous use without circulation caps.
- Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
- Khan Academy Math CoursesMath Course up to 8th grade level
- NASA STEM for Grades 5-8Home Resources --STEM Activities for students from NASA
- CultureGrams This link opens in a new window
Concise reports on countries,U.S. states & Canadian provinces. Uses primary & secondary sources.
- Country Profiles from the BBC
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives. - The World Factbook from the CIA
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities
