Educator's Reference Complete: Gale OneFile
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
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Databases
Elementary: Gale In Context
Designed for kids, Gale In Context: Elementary delivers trusted, age-appropriate digital content. Through newspaper and magazine articles, videos, images, graphics, and eBooks, elementary students can learn about everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and favorite athletes. The database is visual and intuitive, and rewards students’ efforts by developing comprehension and research skills to prepare them for middle school—and a lifetime of learning.
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Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative project for scientists and lay-people whose goal is to document the nearly 2,000,000 living species on the planet. Over the last eight years, some one million species have earned their own encyclopedia page featuring such information as a complete taxonomy, description, images, videos and sound files.
Environmental Studies: Gale in Context
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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