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Tex Quest in the Library

Access more than just encyclopedias with Britannica School Ebooks on TexQuest. Enhance your digital library with resources on various subjects like science, history, and more. Find detailed information, download ebooks, and customize your reading experience. Explore the vast collection for educational use.

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Tex Quest in the Library

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  1. Tex Quest in the Library Cherie Baker Manor ISD Pioneer Crossing New Tech Elementary Librarian / Technology Instructor

  2. https://texquest.net/welcome

  3. Britannica School and Ebooks It is more than encyclopedia’s. Expand you library holdings by using the ebooks.

  4. Once you log in you can search a subject, and see your options. In the below example I am working on a google classroom on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission of landing on the moon the first time. The below book is going to compare manmade versus natural satellites.

  5. What information is available

  6. Reading online or offline

  7. Once you download the free software reader the book can be read offline.

  8. Options that are available Waffle Icon Will give you the Table of Contents. Settings Icon Will allow you to choose how the pages are turned and to save the last page read. Links Will give you the citation in MLA, APA and Chicago Manual of Style.

  9. EBSCO offers books sorted by level and the allows you to search a topic for a book and then gives several options for use. It will allow you to download the the book, full text, view table of contents and most relevant details.

  10. By clicking on the individual links you can download just the chapter you are interested in.

  11. At the top are your tools.

  12. Gale resources are assessible via a URL which ends with a specific code for your district. Below is an example of some resources. Spanish options or other options at the top of an article.

  13. Below is just a sample of languages available for the articles and books.

  14. Here is an example of an article from CNN Wire with all available links to the right.

  15. The last two are for mainly articles, websites and teaching tools. Teaching books mainly covers book research and author information. All is shareable and able to be downloaded.

  16. Cherie Baker MA, MSIS Cherie.Baker@manorisd.net Twitter @pioneercrossin1 OR @BakerPCELibrary

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