Stop Student Googling!
It only leads to bad results.
Where can students find vetted, reliable, and trustworthy information?
Try one of the many Databases easily located on the library media webpage. All logins are the same, for ease of use.
Here are some of the newest titles added to our database collection.
Issues and Controversies
Highlights:
- Exclusive, extensive, and objective coverage:
- Pro and con statements
- Original videos and educator support materials
- Debate videos: videos from the renowned Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series, featuring some of the most prominent political figures, journalists, academics, and experts in the United States and throughout the world on a wide range of crucial topics
- Interactive polls on every issue
- Rich related resources: editorial cartoons, timelines, primary sources, speeches, congressional testimony, newspaper editorials, and discussion questions and activities, along with topic-based Reuters® newsfeed
- Full coverage of each National High School Debate Topic: comprehensive overview, with a series of in-depth articles on the key aspects of the annual debate topic
- Bill of Rights in Debate: deepening understanding of constitutional issues in contemporary life.
Poetry and Short Story Reference Center
Highlights:
-Contains selected works of major and minor American and English poets, along with international poetry representing each continent.
- Allows users to browse content by categories such as most studied poems, poets, short stories and themes. In addition, it offers supplemental teaching and learning guides featuring lesson plans and assignments specifically crafted for use with this database.
World News Digest
Highlights:
- Topic-based research support
- News headlines: up-to-the-minute coverage with news articles from Reuters®
- Navigation by topic, decade, country, or person: the "Browse News" tab allows for a thematic, chronological, geographical, or biographical approach to recent history and current events
- Facts and figures researchers can trust
- Landmark Events: highlights key events by decade from the 1940s to the 2010s
- Background and overviews: summaries of key topics to jump-start research
- Authoritative sources: expertly researched and written content distilled from a multitude of carefully selected print and electronic sources to form the essential record of world events
As you can see, these databases have a great deal to offer!
Please let me know if you would like me to provide a tutorial for you and/or your students!