WVInfoDepot Guides: Especially for Students

Video tutorial

6 minute video tutorial.

A brief introduction to searching techniques and strategies. (Text)

Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids (part of GPO Access) - Providing learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers on how our government works.

The online West Virginia Encyclopedia is the comprehensive reference resource for the Mountain State. A project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, e-WV offers thousands of articles on West Virginia’s people and places, history, arts, science and culture.
e-WV is a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council.

The online encyclopedia contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

Designed for students in grades 4-6, this resource offers an age appropriate, easy-to-use, graphic interface that emphasizes searching by topic.

Provides students an overview of a current, controversial topic with point and counterpoint arguments. Topics have supplementary articles, primary documents, and essays.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

The School Image Collection, a part of the EBSCO databases, provides quick access to photos, maps & flags, etc.