Get help in every subject with digital resources from the Library
October 1, 2020
This blog was updated on September 12, 2022.
This blog was written by Darrell Anderson, marketing and communications specialist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
Looking for resources to help your student with online learning? Get homework help in every subject with the Library’s selection of digital resources. Find everything you need from online research texts and earth and space science help, to encyclopedias and cultural studies resources, all free with a Library card or ONE Access account. The key to student success is just a click away. Check out our homework help resources below:
Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
CultureGrams
CultureGrams, gives you the world at your fingertips. CultureGrams goes beyond basic facts and figures with local perspectives on more than 200 countries, detailing daily life and culture, including history, customs, and lifestyles.
PowerKnowledge Earth & Space Science
An online Earth & Space science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6. Informs about earth cycles, ecosystems and biomes, rocks, environmental issues, space and more.
PowerKnowledge Life Science
An online Life Science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6. Topics include animals, endangered and extinct species, food chains, green living, habitats, human body, plants and more.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
An online Physical Science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6. Topics include atoms, molecules, elements and the periodic table, energy and matter, force and motion and temperature and measurement.
Scholastic Go!
Scholastic GO! contains more than 115,000 articles covering every core-curriculum subject. The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.
World Book Encyclopedia Online
World Book Encylopedia Online is a dynamic and interactive online encyclopedia for young students to adults. Includes Spanish version, as well as access to e-books for homework help and research projects, grades K-12.