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Our three new digital teaching and learning resources are generating a lot of buzz in schools across the country. Take a moment to learn more about these exciting offerings, then sign up for a free trial to discover them for yourself!
eLibrary® Science
Studying past experiments or testing your own hypothesis? eLibrary Science offers high-quality information to support your latest research and theories, along with unique video and dozens of manipulatives found in no other online science reference product. Students will love updated science news links, information about famous scientists, a today in science history feature, interactive periodic table, and more.
eLibrary Science offers unique, compelling content and editorial features for students and powerful teaching tools for educators:
- Multimedia Resources: Provide thousands of authoritative multimedia files--pictures, websites, and streaming audio/video--for use in illustration, demonstration, or presentations.
- Interactive Content: Enhance text-only information and illustrates complex theories with manipulative and interactive tools that allow students to experience science concepts
first-hand.
- Unique Content: eLibrary Science, in partnership with premier reference publisher Salem Press, will also include more than 20 of Salem's high-quality, high-interest reference titles, such as Animal Life and Plant Life from the Magill's Encyclopedia of Science program; science-related titles from the Great Events in History series, and other award-winning titles such as the Encyclopedia of Genetics. Most of these works are available for the first time in electronic format via eLibrary.
- Relevant Resources: Target articles from more than 400 leading science magazines and journals; or expand searches across the entire vault of eLibrary sources--locating the most relevant content from more than 2,000 titles indexed to thousands of science topics.
- Famous Scientists: Discover the life and achievements of more than 1,300 scientists from around the world, with detailed coverage on more than 500 leading figures from the past and present.
- Science News: Highlight the latest news in the sciences with daily topical updates.
- Today in Science: Explore an important discovery from the past for each day of the year--designed to immediately engage students in the content through recognizable or interesting events.
- State & National Science Standards: Locate resources aligned directly to learning benchmarks in the sciences.
- Science BookCart Learning Modules: Build and share customized content that links students to online material that is reliable, relevant, and appropriate for daily classroom use, research, or activities.
Retrieve a special product flyer, review our title list, and learn how to find resources linked to science standards on our special eLibrary Science product information page.
SIRS® Decades
The use of source documents offers students a direct glimpse into the past. But, without context these sources can confuse as often as illuminate. SIRS Decades places these resources into a relevant framework for understanding that enriches both the content and students' experiences with the material.
SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published article--some available from the UMI® microfilm vault for the first time in digital format. SIRS editorial staff carefully selects material based on its relevancy to the topic, range of viewpoints, authoritativeness, readability, and extent of coverage to ensure users receive best-of content.
By gathering these often hard-to-find resources together into one integrated source, students spend more time using content, not finding it. The colorful, user-friendly interface makes it easy to locate information. Users can browse by decade, topic, or timeline. Or, use keyword, subject, and advanced search features to develop targeted queries. Plus, regularly updated editorial features like Editorial Cartoons, Editor's Pick, and History Highlight bring to light documents on interesting and timely topics.
Each decade features an overview essay, spotlighted images, and list of related topics. By selecting a topic, students can access specific primary and secondary sources associated with the topic and further background essays that place the sources into context. All documents include a summary, which provides brief contextual information and description of the source. In addition, Document-based queries and So What? callouts for every topic also help students work with the primary sources and better understand the modern implications of historical events.
Find out more about SIRS Decades!
World Conflicts Today™ from CultureGrams
From the editors of CultureGrams comes a new way for students to understand the world around us: World Conflicts Today. World Conflicts Today explores a growing set of protracted, unresolved world conflicts that that have regional and global implications. Regions include Iraq, Basque Country, Chechnya, Colombia, Darfur and Sudan, Jammu and Kashmir, Korean Peninsula, Northern Ireland, and Palestinian Territories.
Clear, concise, and thorough editorially-created materials synthesize the volumes of news articles, treatises, and editorial commentary generated by each conflict over the years--giving students access to digestible quantities of in-depth information for analysis, debate, or research. Careful review by CultureGrams editors and regional content experts help ensure unbiased, high-quality coverage.
For each region, World Conflicts Today details the history, background, obstacles, and implications, so students can understand what's at stake and what it means for the rest of the world. Ongoing coverage of recent events keeps students informed about the very latest viewpoints, developments, and negotiations in each region. Intuitive site navigation allows students to easily move back and forth between sections, or quick search the site for targeted keywords.
Additional content to assist student research and add interest includes dynamic features like interactive maps, images, timelines, contextual information, statistics, and primary sources. Teaching tools like lesson plans, review questions, and classroom and research activities are also included.
In-depth information about all three new products can be found in our Product Information area. To obtain pricing or discount information, call 1.800.521.0600, ext. 3344. Be sure to sign up for a free trial.
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