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Welcome to the March issue of our K-12 newsletter. This newsletter is designed to help teachers, librarians and administrators stay informed about the latest changes to your subscription, while providing classroom resources and giving tips for using your subscription in a variety of settings. Don't miss our online archive (now available on proquestk12.com) for access to past issues, and to make changes to your newsletter options.
Our product development team is constantly reviewing customer feedback and making changes to our learning resources to meet your needs. Several updates or content additions were recently completed, and we wanted to bring them to your attention.
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March is the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Reminder: CultureGrams Adds Canadian Provinces Looking for a fresh, up-to-date solution to power your social sciences, geography, or cultural studies curriculum? As always, our CultureGrams line is here to help. Last month, our editors were proud to launch a new product -- Provinces Edition -- with reports on all 13 of Canada's provinces and territories. 
Each report includes maps, charts, a history timeline, and useful images, such as photos of the province's official emblems. Plus, statistical tables allow students to compare basic information on all of the provinces. Find out more about CultureGrams at our K-12 website, or sign up for a free trial today. eLibrary Canada BookCarts: Models, Collaboration + Did you know that eLibrary Canada BookCarts can be used by teachers and librarians as lesson plans for inquiry-based learning activities? Using the present format of our curriculum-focused BookCart Editor, teachers can include lesson plan information such as:
Unfortunately, almost all existing BookCarts created by teachers and librarians use the Description box to provide information that simply restates what is obvious by the BookCart title. For example, if the Title states “Civil War Battles” then the Description box usually includes “Resources for learning more about the Civil War battles.” Including this lesson plan additional information sounds like a lot of extra work, doesn’t it? But most teachers have to do this planning work for each activity if it’s going to be effective for learning. They also have to communicate the plan to students as part of each assignment. Why not combine planning elements and the BookCart together? Better yet, why not copy the best ProQuest model BookCarts -- from more than 500 -- that support your assignments, and type in your lesson plan elements? That way, ProQuest has done almost all the work for you. Librarians can copy (learn how) any or all of the ProQuest collection to get teachers excited about using BookCarts for lesson planning as well as using all the great eLibrary resources selected by our editors for each curriculum topic/issue. Here are some samples of Science BookCarts that include Quizzes and Essential Questions for each core curriculum area (click the Science and BookCarts with Quizzes folders: Science Teacher Resources | Professional Development | All Endangered Animals | Science -- Environmental | ES The Carbon Cycle | Science--Earth/Space | MS Nuclear Fusion--Energy of the Future? | Science -- Tech. | HS
CultureGrams can help you broaden your students' understanding of the world and its peoples. The World Edition includes 190+ country profiles, written for junior high students and older. CultureGrams also has a Kids Edition, Provinces Edition, and a States Edition, geared for upper elementary students. These editions include kid-friendly profiles of 70+ countries, all 50 states (including Washington, D.C.), and the Canadian provinces.
At least 85 percent of the people are ethnic Swede. Finns compose about five percent of the population; most of them are immigrants from Finland, but some are native to northern Sweden. A small indigenous minority (up to 20,000 people), the Sami (pronounced “SAW-me”), lives in the north. Traditionally, they herded reindeer for a living. While some continue that occupation, most are involved in other fields. The Sami are sometimes called Lapps, but this is a derogatory term and therefore not encouraged in Sweden. Language Swedes speak Swedish -- a Germanic language that is closely related to Danish and Norwegian, and more distantly related to Icelandic. It developed from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. Swedish emerged as a distinct language around the 10th century, but speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian can still understand each other. Religion Sweden, like most of Europe, is a highly secular society. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution. Most Swedes (about 80 percent) are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church but rarely attend church services. The Lutheran Church still enjoys limited support from the state; however, a complete legal separation of church and state took place in 2000. Now all church decisions are made by church leaders rather than the government. General Attitudes Sweden has created an egalitarian society in which men and women enjoy equal access to opportunities for personal advancement. In addition, Swedes highly value their extensive social welfare system, which provides for most of the population's health, education, and retirement benefits. While public sentiment in the early 1990s led to some cuts in the system, most people oppose deep changes in what are called “cradle-to-grave” benefits. To find out more about CultureGrams, connect to our website today. Training
Our trainer, Tasha Maddison, is standing by to help you get the most out of your subscription--and learn more about our other digital learning resources! She offers a wide variety of online training sessions (check our calendar of events) each month. The training sessions cover after-school hours within several time zones. Best of all, there's no cost to participate. All you need is a computer with Internet access, a phone and one hour. Click the button to sign up:
Each month, our SIRS® WebSelect and SIRS® Discoverer WebFind editorial teams scour the Internet for top-quality sites that help teachers teach and students learn. Although no Internet site can supplant a quality research database, these vetted resources offer unique resources that are sure to be of interest. Women Who Changed History ProQuest offers a growing family of K-12 classroom-focused, subscription-based online research tools. Many of these education solutions offer reading level-linked (lexile) content, support 21st-century information literacy skills, and help schools differentiate instruction across all curriculum areas. Learn more about all of our tools here, tap into our training resources and videos, and don't miss our new eLibrary research tool (more). We also have a pair of special resource pages just for teachers (with lesson plans) and librarians. 
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