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Multidisciplinary

  • SIRS Discoverer
    A general reference resource for grades 1-9 that makes learning fun and intuitive. Helps students develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.
  • Explora Canada (K-5)
    Designed specifically for students in K-grade 5. Access to full text articles, books, journals and more.
  • Explora Canada
    Search a variety of Canadian resources in this easy to use interface. Access to full text articles, books, journals and more.
  • eLibrary Elementary
    A kid-friendly interface with age-appropriate articles, websites and audiovisual resources
  • Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
    More than 25,000 general encyclopedia articles in text and audio in several languages. 
  • Middle Search Plus
    Full-text articles from 140 intermediate level magazines, dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as biographies, essays, photos, maps, flags and primary documents. 
  • World Book Kids
    An easy-to-navigate, richly illustrated site with interactive games, activities and teaching materials
  • World Book Student
    An intermediate-level resource integrating current events, biographies and basic facts with research tools and interactive features

Science

  • National Geographic Kids
    Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take students on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archeology and space. Includes National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present, 280 National Geographic Kids online books, 639 kid-friendly, downloadable images and 92 kid-friendly videos.
  • World Book Science Power
    A multimedia upper-elementary resource with podcasts, experiments, games, biographies, video demonstrations, voice audio, and ask-a-scientist sections.

Social Studies

  • Points to the Past
    Provincewide free, perpetual access to Gale research databases. These databases include all Gale Digital Collections–nearly 200 million pages of digitized rare historical content, including searchable primary source material such as maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, sermons and poems for research, teaching and learning.
  • Culturegrams
    A multimedia database of cultural, geographical, historical and social information about world countries. Includes separate editions for Canadian provinces, American states and younger researchers
  • World Book Timelines
    An upper-elementary level resource with hundreds of pre-generated timelines. These timelines focus on eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history and span the lives of historical public figures. This resource also allows users to create their own timeline from scratch.

English

  • World Book: Early World of Learning
    The Early World of Learning is an online resource for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades. Includes stories, interactive games, original videos and a visual interactive encyclopedia. 
  • Novelist K-8 Plus
    An elementary level database with reading lists of thousands of books, organized by age level, subject, genre and other criteria.

Language

  • Découverte
    A French-language World Book site with articles, photos, maps and website links. Features activities to enhance second-language research
  • Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta
    A Spanish-language World Book reference tool with links to periodicals, videos, images, a visual dictionary and bilingual tools
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    • Vision, Mission, Values
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    • Meet Our Heads
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      • WPGA Foundation
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    • Explore WPGA
    • Key Dates
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    • Quick Facts
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  • JK - 12 Overviews
    • Junior Kindergarten
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    • Senior Music Program
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    • Service Learning
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      • Vancouver Area Independent Schools Fair
  • Enriched Experiences
    • Character Education
    • Cocurricular Clubs
    • Digital Arts
    • Engineering Design
    • Global Learning & Languages
    • Outdoor Environmental Education
      • Wilderness Pursuits 10
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