Staff Resources: 9-12

Online Resources: 9-12

Resources include online databases for research and subscriptions for student use.

Student and staff programs are accessible in the Clever portal. Log in to the Clever portal with your Google account.

If you need further help, please email Mrs. Sheaffer ksheaffe@dinuba.k12.ca.us or ask your site library technician for help.

GALE Cameron's Collection for SEL Resources

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Discovery Education Streaming Plus is more than just video. Streaming includes curated content collections and instructional resources that deepens student engagement, extends critical thinking, and saves teachers time. Has available:

  • Lesson Plans

  • Curriculum

  • Activities

  • Assessment Builders

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TumbleBookCloud is an online database of eBooks and educator resources perfect for your middle school, high school, or public library. We offer a robust selection of Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, eBooks, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources, and audiobooks. The collection is available online around the clock. No downloads, no waiting! If you can access the internet, you can be reading, watching, or listening to fantastic content.


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Britannica is online, in e-books, and on mobile devices. Britannica is math, science, and social studies.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a global educational publisher with products that promote knowledge and learning. We provide timely, relevant, and trustworthy information and instructional products used in schools, universities, homes, libraries, and workplaces throughout the world.

In a world where questionable information is rampant, we provide products that inspire confidence, with content people can trust. We do this, as we have for many years, by collaborating with experts, scholars, educators, instructional designers, and user-experience specialists; by subjecting their work to rigorous editorial review; and by combining it all into learning products that are useful, reliable, and enjoyable.

Creating Individual Account:

Create an Individual “My Britannica” Account (Save & Share Content):1. While already in the product (you’ll see 3 trees), click ‘Sign In to My Britannica’ at the top right of the screen.2. Then click ‘Create an account’.3. Create a unique username/password (different from your school log-in.) and enter other required information.4. Choose if you’re an Educator or Student.5. Finally, click “Create Account’ and your personal account will be created.

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Database designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language arts presents each side of important issues and empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.

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Student Resources In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

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An engaging database of contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 650,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.

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Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science In Context features authoritative information covering all major science topics. This revolutionary, curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers. Science In Context integrates content from comprehensive Gale reference sets (Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, Science in Dispute, and Macmillan Science Library), as well as topic overviews, biographies, periodical articles from noted publications, images and videos, detailed experiments from Experiment Central, biographies, and dictionaries.

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An engaging database of contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 650,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.

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Grades 3-12

A leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world. Provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

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Grades 6-12

eLibrary® helps simplify the research process and empowers novice researchers to more easily and efficiently choose their research topic and find authoritative information to support their research claim. It delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content editorially selected to support novice researchers. Presented on the award-winning ProQuest platform, eLibrary offers two methods of access: a custom Guided Research application, and as part of the unified platform, assuring fit-for-purpose use. The responsively-designed user interface offers access on any device at any time. and, users can cross-search eLibrary with other ProQuest databases, improving your library’s return-on-investment.

More than 11,000 editor-created Research Topics pages deliver the essential elements on a vast array of people, places, historical events and eras, literary genres, current events, broad curricular themes and much more. Editor’s Picks and Trending Topics make it easier to explore appropriate subject matter and get started. Researchers can access primary and scholarly sources, and all content is in 100% full text. 1,700+ magazines, newspapers, transcripts and digitized reference book content, more than seven million images, maps, websites, videos and interactive simulations, all expertly curated by ProQuest editors.

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Grades 9-12, IB, AP, College Prep

ProQuest Central Student is designed to bring instant results to users across thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, and reports. This multidisciplinary resource brings together some of ProQuest's most used data bases in science, technology, education, social sciences, humanities, and news.

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Grades 3-9

For elementary and middle school librarians, teachers, and students who need access to reliable, age-appropriate content in support of classwork, homework, and research assignments. SIRS Discoverer provides a variety of current articles, images, and websites that are 100% full-text, hand-selected, and Lexile scored.

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Schools and Educators Complete™ (educators) includes ebooks from publishers such as ALA Editions, ASCD, and the National Science Teacher Association. The collection includes a growing selection of over 12,000 titles with unlimited access and a wealth of information in professional development and training resources. Almost 4,500 titles in the database have relevance to state, national or provincial curriculum standards, with coverage of all Common Core subjects.

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Grades 9-12, possible some content for Middle Schoo, also includes PD content for faculty

eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology)

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Grades 6-12

When it comes to helping researchers understand the major issues of the day, SIRS® Issues Researcher makes the grade by offering only the very best article selections from more than 2,000 international sources. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between of 345+ social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Editorially created content with engaging Essential Questions with answers, and viewpoint articles help build solid foundations for understanding complex global issues. Articles and graphics in SIRS Issues Researcher are carefully selected according to strict SIRS criteria for content reliability, relevance, and age-appropriateness. Titles include: American History, The Christian Science Monitor, Economist, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Global Viewpoint, Maclean’s, National Geographic, and Newsweek.

Thousands of hand-selected, authoritative newspaper and magazine articles, graphics, charts, maps, primary sources, government documents, websites, multimedia, as well as critical thinking questions, and timelines help broaden student comprehension of each topic. A Research Guide leads students through their assignment step-by-step. Users can easily retrieve information by browse, subject heading, and keyword searches. The articles are indexed according to Library of Congress-derived subject headings to ensure the best results can be printed, saved, emailed and shared.

New state, national, International Baccalaureate, and Common Core standards search helps educators locate standards-aligned articles and other resources, saving teachers time in the lesson planning process, and ensures that library resources are correlated directly to learning benchmarks.

Lexile Reading Levels are integrated with each full-text article. Lexile scores match reader ability and text difficulty, allowing individualized monitoring of student progress.

SIRS Issues Researcher is available online through the SIRS Knowledge Source® portal. SIRS Issues Researcher provides the following features and tools:

  • Trending Leading Issues

  • Daily updating

  • Article Text to Speech

  • Language Translation

  • Citation Generator

  • Integration with Google Drive and Google Classroom

  • Responsive design, optimized for viewing on mobile devices

  • Curriculum Guides

  • Note Organizers

  • Educators’ Resources

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Grades 8-12

ProQuest Research Companion is ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.

Check out this video for a quick overview of the power of a research companion…ProQuest Research Companion.

More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" Different kinds of "pre" and "post" assessment questions make the viewing experience more interactive, while allowing educators to measure students’ learning and identify gaps in their understanding.

Using data from Ulrich’s Web and Bowker Books in Print, several interactive tools automate parts of the research process and allow students to focus on the things that interest them most. ProQuest Research Companion is a new cloud-based information literacy solution for student researchers and educators. Aligned both to ACRL Information Literacy and Common Core English Language Arts standards, Research Companion provides a framework and foundation for information literacy instruction.

It easily guides students through the research process and helps them develop their critical thinking and information literacy skills. Studies have shown that today's researchers are unequivocally overwhelmed with too much information and data—throughout all the stages of research process. Developed by writing instructors and librarians, Research Companion combines multimedia-based learning modules and powerful quick-start evaluator tools into one resource.

Provide support to your literacy instruction Learning Modules with Assessment The Learning Modules are organized into easily digestible sections and are structured as nine commonly asked researcher questions which provide a foundation and context for finding, evaluating, and using information. The modules cover such topics as "Where do I start?" to "How do I avoid plagiarism and find my own voice?" to “What's the best way to revise?” They are delivered as a series of visually compelling and inventive videos, or in a full-text, readable format and are written in a conversational style that improves learning outcomes and maximizes retention.

Pre- and post-assessment questions make the viewing experience interactive, while allowing educators to evaluate students' performance and identify gaps in their understanding. Tools Organized as Topic and Search Aids, and Source Evaluation Aid, researchers get right to the information they need. These quick and easy-to-use tools automate the basic parts of the research process by leveraging the power of ProQuest data sources—including Ulrich'sWeb and Books In Print, and the expert ProQuest editorial team.

  • The Source Evaluation Aid makes evaluating research resources easy—a simple search box allows the user to type in the title of a periodical or book, or copy and paste a URL, and data results about that source are displayed.

  • The Search Aid helps students develop more effective search queries.

  • Topic Aid connects students to topic overviews and helps them choose a topic they're really interested in.

  • The Revision Aid helps researchers write more clearly and persuasively.

Customization Features

  • Editor tool that allows educators to add their own assessment questions and other resources

  • All videos are fully embeddable, individually or as part of custom playlists

  • Tools are customizable and configurable with library resources

  • Full functionality and optimized display on tablets and phones

Harnessing the Power of ProQuest Presented in an easy-to-use and collaborative format, ProQuest Research Companion can be effortlessly incorporated into the student researcher's workflow to get to answers and context quickly. ProQuest Research Companion gives librarians and educators the tools and resources to:

  • Prepare high school and community college students for university-level research

  • Help undergrad and graduate students produce better papers faster

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