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Welcome to the BMS Media Center!  Our web page will guide you great learning links available here via BMS!

DestinyQuest
Search the Becker Middle School library, recommend books to friends, see what books you already have checked out, create lists and place holds. Use regular user name & password to log in.

Destiny Library Manager
Search the Becker Middle School library as a Guest or use the login button with your school username and password.

EBooks Minnesota

Books about Minnesota, published in Minnesota, or by Minnesota authors.....and they are all FREE to read online! Over 2,500 titles currently available!

Links to Log In!

Discovery Techbook

Skyward

Study Island

Edmodo

iCloud

Edmodo Parent Tutorial Video 
This will show you how to set up parent accounts in Edmodo.

Research & Projects

The following databases are provided to all students by the State of Minnesota. NOTE:  If you are at home, you can access these databases (with no login needed) and others at elm4you.org. 

Encyclopedia Brittanica
Middle school edition of the encyclopedia as well as magazines, websites, and videos. Also includes Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features.  Great resource for factual information and images.

Research in Context
A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia.

Student Resources in Context
Magazine and journal articles, reference materials, and multimedia files covering all topics. Contains the following databases: Health Source-Consumer Edition; MAS Ultra-School Edition; and Science Reference Center.

Points of View Reference Center
Contains full text essays and articles that present multiple sides of over 250 issues.  This should be the first place you look if you are researching a controversial topic.

Proquest
Full-text articles from many newspapers, including: Star Tribune, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times and Wall Street Journal. You can also access the Historical Minneapolis Tribune.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Middle Search Plus!
An essential tool for hundreds of middle school magazines and primary source documents.

EBooks Minnesota
Books about Minnesota, published in Minnesota, or by Minnesota authors.....and they are all FREE to read online! Over 2,500 titles currently available!

This resource is provided for all middle school students by Becker Schools.

Country Reports provides over 35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world. Students must log in to access this site.  User name is: beckermiddle and password is: bulldogs

What About Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a great place to start searching for information, but it is NOT an academic source.  Use Wikipedia to get ideas for research, and to see lots of valuable links to other great sources.