Teacher Resources
In alignment with our mission to instill a love of and support lifelong learning, the Bellaire Public Library is thrilled to work with Bellaire area schools and teachers in whatever capacity we can.
Have a suggestion? Let us know. Contact us via email at kids@bellairepubliclibrary.org or use our online contact form.
Teacher Library Cards
The Bellaire Public Library provides a separate Teacher Loan Library Card for teachers who are interested. This card allows teachers to check out materials that would be used in the classroom for 30 days at a time (DVDs and Blu-rays may be checked out for one week).
Teachers are responsible for any materials that are lost, stolen, or damaged.
We ask that teachers use this card to check out materials for the classroom only, not for personal items.
Hot Diggety Dog Academic Challenge
The Bellaire Public Library, in partnership with Gulla’s Lunch, is proud to present the HOT Diggety DOG Academic Challenge for students at Bellaire Elementary School. Each month, classroom teachers will establish academic goals for their classes.
Students will document their achievements on a card each time they meet a benchmark. Once a student successfully completes 10 benchmarks for the month, based on their teacher’s goals, they will receive a certificate for a FREE HOT DOG courtesy of Gulla’s Lunch in Bellaire. Teachers have the flexibility to set new goals each month to best support their students’ learning needs.
Early Literacy Resources
Day By Day Ohio Family Literacy Calendar
Looking for fun, educational activities to enhance your child’s literacy development every day? The Day By Day Ohio Family Literacy Calendar is a free online resource filled with songs, videos, book suggestions, and hands-on activities designed to build early literacy skills and spark a love of learning. Created by the
World Book Early Learning
Early Learning is designed for preschool students with tools and content that reinforce early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, and matching and tracing games, among others.
For young readers
Explora Primary Schools
A trustworthy environment for students and educators in grades K through 5 to look up facts for class projects or homework.
World Book Timelines
Explore events from that span history or build and share your own timelines. Use your own events and images or add content and images from World Book.
World Book Kids
Ages 6-10. This go-to resource is chock-full of fun activities, hands-on science projects, and age-appropriate articles, and offers image-based navigation to help young learners find information quickly and develop necessary
What’s the Point?
By answering just a few questions, flint artifacts of Ohio can be identified as a blade, drill, point, or scraper and attributed to a likely era and people. Learn more
World Book Early Learning
Early Learning is designed for preschool students with tools and content that reinforce early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, and matching and tracing games, among others.
For Older Learners
Biography Reference Bank
Access biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. Biography Reference Bank allows students and library patrons to quickly find the biographical
College Consensus
Published rankings of the best colleges and graduate schools based on an aggregate method of both student and publisher perspectives, along with scholarship and test prep information.
Creating Good Study Habits
This online guide will help walk students through the steps of creating good study skills. Topics covered: Study Skills Taking Good Notes Critical Skills: Thinking Time Management Creativity
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Salem Press’s Critical Survey of Long Fiction offers 678 profiles of major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant novels and novellas. With
Current Topics
The Current Topics collection from Salem Press includes selected essays to help explore current event topics. Civil Disobedience, Social Justice, Nationalism & Populism, Violent Demonstrations and Race Relations The Electoral
Digital Public Library of America
Historic digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives across Ohio and more. The DPLA portal to photographs, maps, documents, and AV materials from across the country is a great starting
EBSCOhost
Let your research begin with EBSCO! Search THOUSANDS of magazines, academic journals, newspapers, reference books, photos, and maps on MILLIONS of topics.
Explora Secondary Schools
Grades 6-12: A far better alternative to websites and search engines for students to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework.
Great Events from History
The Great Events in History volumes collect essays that cover the world’s most important events and developments, using maps, illustrations, biographies, genealogies, primary source materials, and much more to define
Literary Reference Source
Research an author, novel, or poem for school or personal interest. Learn more about a literary movement for book discussions. Literary Reference Source gathers information about well-known authors and their
Novels Into Film: Adaptations & Interpretations
Novels Into Film: Analysis & Interpretations offers a unique look at how a story makes its way from the printed page to the screen. Each essay offers valuable top matter about both the
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center covers over 400 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical