SIRS Discoverer

Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offers articles, nonfiction books, images, activities, and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

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ProQuest SIRS Discoverer

Creating an account

Some resources and databases allow you to create an account on their site to store progress or research information. When creating accounts for library resources & databases, please be sure to select "Fontana Regional Library" if prompted to select a library.

Logging in with your Library Card

Some resources and databases will require you to login using your library card number and password/PIN. Your library card number is located on the back of your library card. Your password/PIN will be the same password you use to login to your online catalog account. The default password/PIN (if you have not reset or changed it) is usually the last 4 digits of your primary phone number.

Additional Vendor Information and Help

For search tips and help resources visit: http://proquest.libguides.com/sirsdiscoverer/education

Overview

SIRS® Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine, and reference book content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality global sources. The collection includes vetted educational Websites and reference materials such as the Compton’s by Britannica encyclopedia and DK Eyewitness books. Trusted periodical titles include Ranger Rick, Highlights for Children, Monkeyshines, New Moon, PopSci for Kids and many others.

SIRS Discoverer features easy access to the most-used content and features, logical subject tree hierarchy, age-appropriate search and filter capabilities, as well as streamlined results and article pages to help young learners connect with and comprehend content. User-friendly advanced search features enable young learners, and the educators who support them, to find exactly what they need by limiting any search by source type and offering the ability to filter by Lexile range.

SIRS Discoverer is available online through either the visually-stunning Guided Research application or the award-winning ProQuest Academic platform. SIRS Discoverer provides the following features and tools:

Animal Facts to support the common animal report assignment
Article Text to Speech, including MP3 downloading
Citation Generator
Integration with Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and Google Classroom
Language Translation
Country Facts & Maps
Educators’ Resources
Over 500 DRM-free Nonfiction digitized books
Controversial Issues feature for middle school projects
Responsive design, optimized for viewing on mobile devices
Curated Biography Pages
Standards Correlations tool for state, national and international curriculum standards