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All pictures in this website are murals on the walls of FSEMS.

All websites listed were provided by faculty and staff at FSEMS.

Copyright 2006 Katie Arnold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live Homework Help

The Chester County Library System is pleased to announce a new, free after-school service for student in Grades 4 through 12 and College Intro – Live Homework Help. Live Homework Help is an exciting online service featuring expert tutors. Help is available in math, science, social studies, and English. Spanish-speaking tutors are available in math and science.

Live Homework Help is available seven days a week from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Students can connect to online tutors for free from their local public library or from home. They simply go to www.ccls.org and click on the Live Homework Help icon to access this service. A library card is required for home access.

Live Homework Help tutors never simply give answers; they work with students until they understand a concept. Students and tutors can review specific homework questions, as well as subject-specific concepts, using features such as controlled chat, an interactive white board, and shared Web browsing in the Online Classroom.

Live Homework Help tutors are certified teachers, university professors, graduate school students, students at accredited four-year colleges, and professionals who are experts in their fields. All tutors have received 7-year criminal background checks as well as reference checks; students’ credentials are confirmed by their universities. Our tutors have also been certified through the Tutor.com Training Program.

POWER LIBRARY


Just a reminder for easy access to information: our middle school library is part of the Pennsylvania POWERlibrary (Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources) system. This is a service that allows students and families
free access to many reference and information sources.

It may be accessed by:

going online to http://www.powerlibrary.net,
and clicking to find a Power library.
Then click on either the map section or the name Chester County;
on the next screen, scroll down to find the name of your local library,
click, and find the Power library icon on the left-hand side bar.
Enter your library card number and click submit.

You can now access many reference tools:

EBSCOhost - (Comprehensive periodical & reference databases: MasterFILE Premier
Professional Development Collection, NoveList, EBSCOhost Español, Business Source Elite, & Health Source Plus)
Grove’s dictionaries - (Comprehensive resources on topics relating to Music, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Life Sciences as well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American, 1993-present)
Bigchalk - (Designed specifically for younger researchers, e-Library Elementary contains more than 60 cover-to-cover magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text, updated daily)
SIRS - (An interactive reference tool for young readers including: full text articles and graphics, country facts, World Almanac), Poem finder - (Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over 70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts)
ACCUnet - (Archive of more than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics that can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added to the archive daily)