Researching and Finding Information
As a middle schooler, research can be challenging, right? You’re not a research guru just yet, and online searches on their own can lead you to unreliable content. Thankfully, Gale In Context: Middle School integrates citable content from magazines, newspapers, videos, and primary sources into an easy-to-navigate database developed with you in mind. Dive into science, social studies, history, literature, and more from National Geographic, Scholastic, NPR, NASA, and other citable sources.
When you have a paper, project, or presentation to complete, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. Gale In Context: High School simplifies your search for information by bringing together hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections into one easy-to-use database. While online browsers can serve up unreliable or incomplete results, this database lets you explore vetted primary sources, biographies, critical essays, and other materials in many formats — giving you deeper context to high-interest topics.
Having a clear, compelling point of view on today’s most debated political and social issues requires finding the most credible facts and insights. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints simplifies your search by bringing together thousands of resources to provide authoritative articles, research reports, videos, and statistics. This database steers you away from unreliable content that online browsers sometimes serve up and helps you draw your own conclusions about global warming, the minimum wage, and hundreds of other debated topics.
The PowerSearch platform offers comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. PowerSearch is also a time saving tool as it cross-searches across the High School and Opposing Viewpoints Gale resources. Refer to this Cross-Search Gale Resources Tip Sheet for instructions on cross-searching .
Student Resources
Click on the links below for a quick lesson on each topic.
VIDEO: How To Use Our Database
Finding a Topic: Middle School
Researching an issue: Searching Opposing Viewpoints
Using Highlighting and Note-taking Tools
Educator Resources
Click the links below to access short tutorial videos, recorded webinars, scavenger hunts, lesson plans and more.
Middle School Educator Resources
High School Educator Resources
Opposing Viewpoints Educator Resources
Google Classroom Integration Tutorial
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