CISD Middle School Databases
2020-2021
ABC-CLIO Information Services
American History
Daily Life Through History
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
World History: The Modern Era
ABC-CLIO subject-specific databases are organized into curated topic centers aligned to social studies curricula. These topic centers scaffold the learning process with three types of resources that collectively increase students’ capacity to learn: essential background information, critical analysis, and primary and secondary sources.
In ABC-CLIO Solutions, expert content, intuitive organization, and impactful tools combine to make a difference in student learning.
BrainPOP
BrainPOP
BrainPOP Jr.
BrainPOP ELL
BrainPOP Español
BrainPOP Français
Content Areas: All PK-8
Britannica School
Made for today’s digital classroom, with extensive, up-to-date information sources, Britannica School is specially designed for differentiated instruction, allowing students to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.The content of Britannia School is reliable, age-appropriate, updated continuously and closely correlated to all curriculum standards.
Britannica Image Quest
More than three million rights-cleared images from over 60 of the best collections in the world are now available from one site—Britannica Image Quest. Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, the National Geographic Society, and other leading names have joined with Britannica to provide the best and broadest collection of proprietary educational imagery. Teachers can use the images in their classroom activities while students turn to the site for homework assignments and school projects.
Cavendish Square Digital
The Elements: Discusses the origin, discovery, special characteristics, and importance of the 117 known elements, from aluminum to zirconium.
Exploring Earth and Space Science: Features information on the fields of astronomy, physics, geography, geology, and more.
Exploring Life Science: Examines topics that are relevant to life science in the twenty-first century and does so in a readily accessible and highly visual manner.
Life Sciences: Includes coverage of life science topics such as agriculture, anatomy, biochemistry, biology, genetics, medicine, and molecular biology.
CultureGrams
Content Areas: Social Studies PK-12
EBSCO E-Book Collection
Explora Secondary
Provides a dedicated search interface for the EBSCO databases owned by a secondary school.
GALE: Research in Context
Research In Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
Research In Context provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. Middle school students will benefit from an interface that delivers a combination of the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users as well as the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.
GALE: Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
How your users research is just as important as what they research. While other eBook platforms direct users to title-level results, GVRL is designed to cross-search all of your eBooks to pinpoint relevant material. The result? They spend less time looking for credible information, and more time diving into it.
Offer your users an award-winning, hassle-free eBook experience —anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
GALE: Infotrac Newstand
GALE: National Geographic Kids
GALE: Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.
GALE: Science in Context
Science In Context is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Drawing students in with captivating subject matter, Science In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather.
The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
Learn360
LearningExpress Library
SIRS Discoverer
TeachingBooks.net
World Book Online
World Book Kids
World Book Student
World Book Advance
World Book Timelines
World Book Discover
World Book Ninos