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From ProQuest, discover two online reference solutions to help students
understand the world, its peoples... and its problems. CultureGrams and
World Conflicts Today (free trials) connect learners to the real world,
offering access to current, deep, classroom-ready text, statistics, images,
multimedia, and more.
CultureGrams focuses on the daily life and cultures of 204 nations around
the world, while World Conflicts Today (WCT) examines 10 protracted,
unresolved conflicts, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian Territories,
and Darfur.
CultureGrams provides broad coverage of what holds societies together,
while World Conflicts Today provides deep coverage of what can tear societies apart. Check out
CultureGrams to find cultural context for political elements in World Conflicts Today--and World
Conflicts Today to find political context for cultural elements in CultureGrams.
Get a glimpse into the exclusive, timely information available in both solutions via the Afghanistan
country report from CultureGrams, and a slideshow of the Afghanistan conflict from
World Conflicts Today.
Breadth & Currency of Coverage
204 countries, 50 U.S. states, and all 13 Canadian Provinces -- CultureGrams spans the world. Every report is updated regularly, ensuring timely information and fresh statistics about daily life every time you and your students log in. CultureGrams offers the breadth of coverage and level of detail that makes it a perfect fit in libraries or classrooms in elementary, middle, and high schools.
World Conflicts Today offers clear, detailed materials that synthesize volumes of news articles, primary sources, books, and opinion pieces generated by 10 unresolved world conflicts. WCT gives high school students access to digestible quantities of current, in-depth information for analysis, further research, and debate.
Reviewed by scholars and experts in the field and constantly updated and rewritten to incorporate the latest developments, WCT is a one-of-a-kind, multi-dimensional reference solution no high school should go without.
Teaching Tools:
Beyond Data to Deep Understanding
Both solutions offer incredible content that can be used in more than a dozen curriculum areas, including geography, social studies, current events, media and cultural studies, world religions, environmental studies, and economics. For example, students can use CultureGrams to quickly create a data table exploring the economies of the countries involved in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, then turn to WCT to learn how economic factors have shaped those wars and been shaped by them.
CultureGrams and World Conflicts Today make it easy to meet relevant national, state, and provincial teaching standards using up-to-date content and resources. They help users understand the world with content that matters, both in terms of student benchmarks and learning.
Educators can use CultureGrams content to create standards-linked lesson plans, while students at all levels and with differing learning styles can study the world via print and visual media (slideshows, images, and videos). Our content can be streamed or downloaded for use in classroom or student presentations.
Our World Conflicts Today PowerPoint slideshows and many hundreds of embedded images offer a visual glimpse into all 10 hot spots. Students can quickly and easily download slides to create their own multimedia presentations. Teachers can use the slideshows each in their entirety as part of their classroom curriculum.
Tools for Understanding the World
We make it easy to visualize data about daily life that helps explain our ever-changing world. Choose the countries or regions you wish to compare, choose the data you want (infant mortality, female literacy, etc.), press a button, and watch as a graph or table instantly appears.
Or, instantly access more than 50 top-ten extremes charts, such as the countries with the highest oil consumption, the most cellular phones, the most military spending, and the most doctors.
Go beyond quickly outdated encyclopedias and almanacs. CultureGrams offers a slate of online tools that make it easy for anyone to compare distances and currencies, check the time in country capitals, and create their own comparative tables and graphs.
Global Access @ Home or School
Your CultureGrams and World Conflicts Today subscriptions are accessible by staff and students both at home and school, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No matter when the need for research strikes, these critical resources are just a click away.
Plus, all of our CultureGrams content is available both online (Web) and in printable Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
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