Check out some of these free websites and links to specific PA POWER library databases (you need your library card for those) for help with research — for middle and high school students and Teachers!. There is one good guide for Elementary students beginning the research process. If there’s a topic you need, let us know!

General Research Help

• 5 Steps to Research
• Elementary (Kids!) Research Start here!
• Brainstorming, Note Taking, & Organizing
• Your PA POWER eLibrary card
• Ready Reference Guide
• Presentation Tools
• Free Image & Video Resources
• Free Sound Resources
• The Zine Guide Online Magazines by Subject
• Academic Honesty: Plagiarism & Citing Sources
• Fake News? Media Literacy!
• Wikipedia for Research?!
• Information Literacy Resources For Students and Teachers
• Checkology: Levels of Scientific Evidence
• Research Ethics
• Surveys: Design & Conduct
• Learning Differences / Learning Disabilities

Subject Research Topics — Overviews, Suggested Websites & Specific POWER Databases

• African American Studies
• AIDS & HIV
• American Civil War & Reconstruction
• American Revolution
• Ancient Civilizations
• AI: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, & Us
• Biography Research
• Biology Basics
• Biomes & Climate Zones
• Black Lives Matter
• Bullying & Prejudice
• Chemistry Basics
• Chinese History
• Civic Literacy Curriculum
• The Cold War
• Contemporary Issues
• Country Studies & the United Nations
• East Asian Studies (China, Japan, Korea)
• Environmental Systems & Societies
• Elementary (Kids!) Research
• Fairy Tales & Folktales
• Film Studies
• Geography
• Global Climate Change
• Globalization
• Harlem Renaissance Art & Literature
• Healthy Relationships
• Human Rights
• Industrial Revolution, The Victorian Era, & Charles Dickens
• Inventions & Inventors
• Learning Differences / Learning Disabilities
• LGBTQ Studies
• Literature Some authors you might study
• Mark Twain
• Mathematics Overview
• The Middle Ages
• Middle School Science
• Mythology
• Native American Information & Resources
• Philosophy 101
• Physics Overview
• Political Theory Primer
• Racism, Anti-Semitism, Genocide
• Renaissance, Reformation, The Enlightenment, & The French Revolution
• Shakespeare & The Elizabethan Era
• Social Bias
• Southeast Asian Studies (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
• Stress
• Theatre Studies
• Understanding Prejudice
• UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Visual Arts
• War in Vietnam
• Women’s Studies
• World Religions
• World War I
• World War II