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Issues & Controversies logo Through topical essays Issues & Controversies provide a thorough review of all sides of an issue.
Issues & Controversies logo Collegeboard.com's college and career planning Web site. My Road provides career and college guidance. This site provides personality assessments to assist in career selections, as well as tips on applying for colleges.
SIRS Discoverer logo SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for children grades 1-9 with full-text articles and images. Features include activities such as science experiments, craft projects, writing activities, biographies of every U.S. President and other notable people, fiction articles, and country facts. Discoverer WebFind is a database of carefully chosen Internet resources on almost any subject appropriate for researchers in grades. Online tutorial available.
SIRS Knowledge logo SIRS Knowledge Source is a collection of 6 databases for students in grade 6-12. Full-text articles, graphics, photographs, government documents, primary sources, ebooks, and previewed websites.
Thomson Gale logo Thomson Gale's Student Resource Center contain magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, multimedia content, and the Gale "Discovering", "Exploring", and "Junior Reference" series.
Also from Thomson Gale researching science topics has never been easier with Science Resource Center.
TeachingBooks.Net logo TeachingBooks offers original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, and a wealth of multimedia resources.
World Almanac logo Search The World Almanac reference database for facts, figures and other statistical information on topics of general interest. Please note: World Almanac is no longer being provided as a stand-alone product it is incorporated within Facts on File's Issues & Controversies.
World Book logo World Book Online provides full-text of print version plus additional articles, an atlas, multimedia content, and "Behind the Headlines" (current events) as well as an intermediate-level Spanish.

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