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General: Biographical information on a wide range of people, living and dead. More than 525,000 individuals from 170+ award-reference titles. 50,000 new or updated bios added annually in addition to daily updates for awards and events. Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content. Hundreds of hand-crafted topic pages covering the highest-interest features.
General: Search or browse for information in Compton's encyclopedia, magazines, videos, and Web sites. You can also explore Learning Materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features for middle school level.
Social Studies, Science, Foreign Language and others: Covers broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events. Includes detailed information on nations. More about this database - also see Quick Start training video.
History (8th Gr): Full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents. Moves chronologically over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe.
ELA, Social Studies, Reading, Science: More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays, 5,000+ topic overviews, 5 million periodical articles, statistical tables, charts and graphs, 70,000 images
Social Studies (Grade 7) World Data Analyst offers:
Reading, ELA: Excellent resource for information about current authors and books. Covers adult, YA, and children's publications. Author information includes awards, personal info, career, list of writings, and more.
ELA: database that offers biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline
Science: Browse or search More than 22,000 topic overviews, 7,000 biographies, 1.5 million periodical articles from noted publications like Science Weekly, Science News and The Science Teacher, 16,000 images and videos, 170+ detailed experiments, 8,100 biographies
Health: Consumer and student information on diseases & conditions, medicines, list of trusted websites and more.