Would you wear a watch and slippers made from carbon dioxide emissions? Or brush your teeth using toothpaste made from CO₂? Before the pandemic, students at Evergreen Middle School were learning about real products that capture and store carbon dioxide that would otherwise go into the atmosphere.
Redmond, Wash. – At a live event on the evening of Wednesday, January 6, Lake Washington School District (LWSD) Superintendent, Dr. Jon Holmen, announced Pathway Forward, LWSD’s plan to return students to in-person learning for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.
Redmond, Wash. – Lake Washington School District’s (LWSD’s) 2020-21 Budget has earned the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) Meritorious Budget Award (MBA). This award promotes and recognizes excellence in budget presentation in school districts.
An International Community School student is the 2019-20 winner of the sixth annual Washington State Zine Contest. Katya Rukhlinskaia, who is now in eighth grade, won for grades 7-9 for her “Tribes: The Cowlitz” zine entry.
If you need to know more about customizable responsive hydrogel patches, look no further than Tesla STEM High School. Two Tesla STEM students were named regional winners of the 28th annual ExploraVision competition.
To access the research databases below from home, please go to your school's Library Team Site or contact your school's library media specialist for login information.
Use the links below when accessing from school.
American History Online
Facts and reference material for American History.
Britannica ImageQuest
Millions of rights-cleared images.
Britannica Original Sources
Primary source documents in history, literature, science, law, politics, religion, and more.
Britannica School
Age appropriate encyclopedias, reference books, magazine and journal articles, and websites.
CultureGrams
Comprehensive information on countries and states.
eLibrary
Newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio/visual, transcripts.
History Study Center
Delivers primary and secondary sources covering 14 centuries of world history.
Facts and reference material for Modern World History.
Proquest
Articles from magazines, newspapers and journals (abstracts and full-text).
ProQuest Learning: Literature
More than 180,000 searchable works of literature from medieval times to the present. It includes biographies, contemporary criticisms and reviews.
SIRS Discoverer
A general reference resource for all grades. Includes web sites, images and full-text articles organized by grade level.
SIRS Researcher
Social and health issues in a pro/con format.
![Carbon XPrize EMS]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1609189218/lwsdorg/r1k2vhpjlynkvwwh52lm/CarbonxPrize2.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1609189218/lwsdorg/r1k2vhpjlynkvwwh52lm/CarbonxPrize2.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1609189218/lwsdorg/r1k2vhpjlynkvwwh52lm/CarbonxPrize2.jpg","width":800}])
![Meritorious Budget Award]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1607980423/lwsdorg/fzahzvqa2zntwxlx62pf/meritorious-budget-award.png","width":130}])
![Katya Rukhlinskaia]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1607549449/lwsdorg/ragopww0qftkog8gnsb8/KatyaRukhlinskaia.jpg","width":240}])
![Calista-Morley-and-Elisabeth-Berger-Tesla-STEM-ExploraVision-contest]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1607549329/lwsdorg/cz1ogjqt7g87xa8dbnwn/Calista-Morley-and-Elisabeth-Berger-Tesla-STEM-ExploraVision-contest.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1607549329/lwsdorg/cz1ogjqt7g87xa8dbnwn/Calista-Morley-and-Elisabeth-Berger-Tesla-STEM-ExploraVision-contest.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1607549329/lwsdorg/cz1ogjqt7g87xa8dbnwn/Calista-Morley-and-Elisabeth-Berger-Tesla-STEM-ExploraVision-contest.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1607549329/lwsdorg/cz1ogjqt7g87xa8dbnwn/Calista-Morley-and-Elisabeth-Berger-Tesla-STEM-ExploraVision-contest.jpg","width":1030}])
