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Beanstack makes it easy for your students to track their independent reading, earning virtual badges along the way. Students can also write book reviews and complete activities to further engage with what they have read.

In a world of digital news, World Book Advanced gives high school students and adults a reliable source to check the facts. The In the Headlines live news feed and world newspapers promote global awareness and international perspective. Primary source documents, biographies, Back in Time articles, and Teaching with Documents all aid in more in-depth and conceptual understanding within the classroom curriculum.

With Learn360, teachers and students can stream and/or download from a premium library of more than 151,000 handpicked videos, video clips, interactives, teacher guides, audio programs, math activities, science diagrams, science experiments, timelines, and more. You will see videos and clips from more than 200 producers including History Channel, Bio, National Geographic, HBO, BBC Learning, Reading Rainbow, Sunburst Visual Media, and much more.

Designed to reinforce the development of skills such as critical thinking, this product offers cross-curricular content aligned to national standards and Common Core State Standards. 

Gale In Context: High School includes more than 150 reference publications, full-text newspapers, and periodicals, maps, hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections as well as archival materials from well-known sources like the Economist, the New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

Gale Health and Wellness offers 24/7 access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Gale In Context: Science is an engaging resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Drawing students in with captivating subject matter, Science showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather.

Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.