eResources

Fun and educational games – math, sports, science, environment, geometry, and more. And it’s from PBS!

Where kids can play free reading games and activities with their parents, teachers, and caregivers!

Great source for tips on talking to children about growing up

This is a great poetry resource. Here’s how they describe it on the site’s home page…“The collection covers roughly 7,000 works by about 800 poets – including some of the best known works in the English language – and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading .”

This isn’t your standard poetry – there’s something for everyone. Sponsored by the Library of Congress, the introduction says, “Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.”

This page is part of the Internet Public Library. It displays links to biographies of every U.S. President, from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Lots of information, too, like family backgrounds, cabinet members, votes received in elections, etc.

The site offers thousands of public domain ebooks for free use on any device. Because they are public domain, they are typically limited to items published before 1924, but that still includes a wide range of classics.

Follow the link for Grades 7-12 Instructors and Students. There are some great tips to help you with research papers or essays. There’s even a section on how to conquer “writer’s block”. You know – the inability to concentrate and focus and get things on paper, and it’s the night before the assignment is due…

A great podcast for grammar/writing questions

ConsumerReports.org features ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel. Subscribers have access to Consumer Reports’ unbiased product and service ratings and recommendations, selections from the latest issue of Consumer Reports, a searchable archive of the past four years of ratings, Consumer Reports’ exclusive product- and car-reliability reports, comprehensive decision guides, the ability to participate in expert Discussions, access to consumer/user reviews, and much more.
Please call the Library for the username and password to access this site. 

You must be a patron of the Vernon Free Library to obtain this information.

Tips from scholastic to help your kids succeed in school from PreK to grade 8