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Research Resources

Gale Databases
Click on this link for all three Gale Databases.
 
Password for remote access: slzusd
GaleElem
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate content.
 
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galems
This database, created specifically for middle-school students, contains age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
 
Password for remote access: slzusd
GaleHigh
Covers various topics, people, places, and events in an engaging online experience to help high school students with papers, projects, and presentations.
 
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Topic Finder is a great tool from Gale to help focus a research question, connect to articles, and help gather keywords.  It links back to articles in the Gale Database.
 
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Gale Environmental Studies
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. 
 
Password for remote access: POPPY
GALE SCIENCE
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
 
Password for remote access: POPPY
NATGEO KIDS
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
 
Password for remote access: POPPY
  • ProQuest Databases
proquest
Link to all ProQuest databases.
 For remote access: 
Username:   VPSGU86C4F
Password: T3tD+yGH
Country and State Reports
Geography and Culture
  For remote access: 
 Username:   VPSGU86C4F
  Password: T3tD+yGH
  • Pros and Cons of Current Issues
  • Articles that tell all sides of an issue.
   For remote access: 
Username:   VPSGU86C4F
Password: T3tD+yGH
  • A general reference resource for young researchers that makes learning fun and intuitive. Has a collection of over 500 full-color nonfiction books that can be sorted by Lexile!
   For remote access: 
Username:   VPSGU86C4F
Password: T3tD+yGH
  • Offers more than 2,000 full-text sources, with improved functionality and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
  For remote access: 
Username:   VPSGU86C4F
Password: T3tD+yGH
ebookcentral
  • Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage information.
                                 For remote access: 
Username:   VPSGU86C4F
Password: T3tD+yGH
alexanderstreet
  • Videos from PBS, as well as collections of Performing Arts such as plays, operas, dance, and music performances!
rosa parks Primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Over
3,000 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom. Created in 2020, open source,
no password required.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
BElem
Elementary students have a safe place to search, discover, and explore!
                          For remote access:             
Username: sanlorenzo
Password: slzusd
BMid
Middle-grade students have curriculum-aligned games and activities, plus the ability to toggle between reading levels.
                         For remote access:             
Username: sanlorenzo
Password: slzusd
BHigh
High school students have everything they need for research, fact-checking, and school projects.
                       For remote access:             
Username: sanlorenzo
Password: slzusd
Bescolar
Spanish language version!        
 
               For remote access:             
Username: sanlorenzo
Password: slzusd
 
Digital Citizenship Lesson
Puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games.
 
If you have to use Google, this will help you narrow down your search.
 
Find reliable news articles here!
 
This handy guide will help you evaluate a website.
 
Evaluate this website.Does it contain factual information?
 
Marshmallow Farming
Check out this video. Is it true? Are we going to have a marshmallow shortage?
Looking for information about a specific person? Try this site!
Dictionaries
 
For help with your vocabulary homework!