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Elementary: Gale In Context
Covers a broad range of elementary school topics in one accessible resource. It features a modern, graphical interface that improves navigation understanding to offer students an introduction to database searching. Audience: Children, Elementary School
Environmental Studies: Gale in Context
*NEW RESOURCE* - Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides detailed information on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint suitable for high school, undergrad, and graduate students. Reference works, case studies,
High School Edition: Gale OneFile
Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides access to cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards. Students can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals. Audience: Middle School, High School
High School: Gale In Context
Covers a broad range of topics, people, places, and events in an engaging online experience to help high school students with papers, projects, and presentations. Audience: High School
Middle School: Gale In Context
Designed for middle school students, provides access to reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia. Audience: Middle School
Opposing Viewpoints: Gale In Context
Covers today's social issues, from capital punishment to marijuana. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Audience: High School, College/Research
TEL4U.org
The Tennessee Electronic Library's website for grades Pre-K‐5 provides a safe place for kids to go online for educational and fun websites. Audience: Children, Elementary School
World Book Advanced
Online encyclopedia that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. Also includes access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials. Audience: High School, College/Research, Public
World Book Early Learning
An immersive, educational experience for young learners eager to learn more about the world around them while learning to read. Audience: Children, Elementary School
World Book eBooks
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels. Audience: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Public
World Book Kids
A general reference website developed especially for young students. The site offers image-based navigation, easy‐to‐read articles, thousands of illustrations, and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities. Audience: Children, Elementary School
World Book Student
Features more than 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, biographies, videos, images, and activities that support middle school research needs. Audience: Elementary School, Middle School
World Book Timelines
Allows students to discover and map important events in society and culture. Users can browse more than 400 ready-made, interactive timelines covering various periods in history or create their own timeline on any subject. Audience: Middle School, High School
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