Research the lives of famous athletes, world leaders, explorers, and people in the news.

A Comprehensive encyclopedia meeting the reference needs for pre-K through high school students with separate interfaces for each level.

Gale In Context: Elementary is a database developed especially forbeginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring adevelopmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popularsearch method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using thesubject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-textcontent is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. Thisdatabase covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people,government, history, sports and more.

General encyclopedia aimed at students in Grades 6-8.

Full-text coverage of this newspaper from 1980 to the present.

Full-text of The New York Times Newspaper from 1985 to present

A resource where students can explore information about:

People (e.g., biographies, business and industry, community, customs and beliefs, education, ethnic groups, festivals and holidays)

Places (e.g., monuments, natural features, continents, countries, regions, states, cities)

Science and mathematics (e.g., biographies, health and medicine, life sciences, machines and tools, mathematics, physical sciences)

World Religions (e.g., architecture, customs, Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology)

Plants and Animals

History and Government

Arts (e.g., architecture, authors, books, crafts, drawing, music, painting)

Sports and hobbies (e.g., outdoor sports, team sports, water sports, winter sports)

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