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Online Resources that may help you with school work while at home.
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Elementary/7-8 http://bit.ly/GGUSDk6resources
NEW RESOURCES are listed below. There are MANY more resources. Take advantage of these while we have FREE access to them. They are fabulous for research.
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Gale Student Resources in Context
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Offers current and authoritative information to meet the needs of today's learners with a mobile-responsive design that is easy to navigate. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. |
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Gale In Context: Middle School combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more for students in middle grades. |
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Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content for undergraduate students that reinforces skill development in problem-solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. |
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The Gale eBooks: Coronavirus & Global Pandemics Collection helps learners better understand global viruses, pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks, and more. |
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Gale Health and Wellness – Coronavirus Gale Health and Wellness is a comprehensive consumer health resource that provides authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues. |
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Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. |
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Gale In Context: Science provides contextual information on hundreds of todays most significant science topics. Also supports virtual science instruction. |
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Gale Interactive: Science pairs high-quality digital content with interactive 3D models and empowers instructors to lead virtual science labs and lessons. |
ProQuest
 See the PASSWORD page (to the right) for help.
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Concise cultural information on countries around the world. |
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General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. |
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Millions of articles from more than 10,000 full-text scholarly journals. |
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Selected content for novice researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators. |
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Curriculum-aligned database of content organized by complex issues, ideally for middle and high school students and educators. |
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Information literacy tools and tutorials to help develop critical thinking. |
 See the PASSWORD page (to the right) for help.
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eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology). |
AncestryK12 for the Classroom
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AncestryK12 offers free access to all the original and primary documents of Ancestry's U.S. Collection for use in any K12 classroom. |
Britannica Databases
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Database of fact-checked resources that include articles, images, videos, dictionary, magazines, Web's Best Sites, Primary Sources & Ebooks, and Year in Review. |
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En espanol, database of fact-checked resources that include articles, images, videos, dictionary, magazines, Web's Best Sites, Primary Sources & Ebooks, and Year in Review. |
TeachingBooks.net
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TeachingBooks.net offers every reader the power to enrich their relationship to the books they are reading.
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Orange County Public Library
Portal to eResources Try Gale's Opposing Viewpoints, OC Register, ....
MLA8 Citation Template (make a copy)