Digital Databases

TumbleBook Library

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which help teach kids the joy of reading in an enjoyable format . They are electronic picture books which you can read or have read to you. Students can experience the books in automatic mode (pages turn by themselves and are narrated) on in manual mode (students work at their own speed). Student and teacher can use pause to stop the story at any time for purposes of discussion.

TumbleBook Cloud

TumbleBookCloud and TumbleBookCloud Jr.  Online collection of read-alongs,e-books, graphic novels, audio books, and educational videos for elementary, middle, and high school. With over 400 titles, a great addition for schools and libraries, meets curriculum standards, PLUS highlighted text and optional narration makes this a great addition.

LEARN  360

CESA 9/12 IMC provides a video streaming database consortium to support teachers as they build high quality instructional lessons that address all learning styles. ​

SALEM History Databases – Information on events, movements, people, and trends in popular culture, literature, art, sports, science, technology, economics, and politics in the United States and Canada. 

•     The Decades: Nineties in America 
•     The Decades: Eighties in America 
•     The Decades: Seventies in America 
•     The Decades: Sixties in America 
•     The Decades: Fifties in America

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Great Lives from History:  American Women - This new addition to the Great Lives from History series features over 700 essays on women from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries. Many individuals included in this multi-volume set have never been covered in this series before, notable for their work in such fields as politics, civil rights, literature, education, journalism, science, business, and sports. Included in this edition are such prominent figures as:

• Susan B. Anthony
• Amelia Earhart
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Katharine Hepburn
• Anne Hutchinson
• Harriet Tubman
• Serena & Venus Williams

Individual achievements of kings, queens, generals, artists, scientists, women, notorious figures, etc., and geography of Africa, Asia, Europe, North & South America and maps of the world during time period. 

• Great Lives From History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. 
• Great Lives From History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453
• Great Lives From History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
• Great Lives from History:  Science and Scientists 
• Great Events from History:  The Twentieth Century, 1901-1940
• Great Events from History:  The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970

Magill’s Medical Guide, 7th ed. – User-friendly interface provides all the content of the printed resource, hundreds of photographs, illustrations, indexes, appendixes, and directories. 

Research-based immersion program for English learners in the classroom. Rosetta Stone can be used by students of all ages for reading, speaking, and writing. Three levels: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.  Members of the CESA 9/12 Title IIIA consortium can receive this service as part of their membership.

These databases are accessible from any high school, middle school, elementary school or Central Office computer with Internet access. 

Please contact CESA 9/12 IMC for more information: 
Sandi Szafranski, 
sandras@cesa12.org 

Mary Maderich
marym@cesa12.org