General Information
Check out the Digital Knowledge Central Program available to Little Flower Students and their families. Membership to this program includes both school and home usage. Use the links below to access this program. A user name and password are required. Refer to the information sheet that was sent home with each child. It contains instructions for signing on to each section. For further assistance, please consult with your child's teacher.
Digital Knowledge Central (DKC): A Virtual Library of Resources
Britannica Online: Britannica Online School Edition gives students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age appropriate language. High quality online learning materials have been developed by teachers and curriculum experts to assist and support teaching strategies in the classroom.
EB Online School Edition Features:
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
- Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
- Images and Video Clips
- Interactive atlases
- Merriam - Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus
- Spotlight Features with Study Guides
EBSCO: Enables Students access to both EBSCOhost and Searchasurus an Icon based middle and primary search plus. These two online databases provide the highest quality of full text periodicals, full text biographies, primary sourced documents, essays, encyclopedias, almanacs, reference books, pamphlets, newspapers, transcripts, photos, maps and other sources complement EBSCO's superior periodical collection.
EBSCO Features
- Charts, tables and graphs
- Book reviews
- Biographies
- Encyclopedia of Animals
- American Heritage Children's Dictionary
- World Almanac for Kids
- Searchasaurus Interface
- Online Dictionary
Newsbank: Gives students access to expansive collections and curriculum integration tools that are designed to help Texas students improve the quality of research, thinking and learning.
Newsbank provides:
- Support for school district curriculum
- BIG6 information Literacy model
- Correlates directly to TEKS with connections to real world content and research materials
- Kids page with icon based searching
- Appropriate content for Elementary level
- Newspapers, periodicals, historical documents, biographies and statistical publications.
