ERS Portal Featured Resource: Gale Databases

 

Gale, a Cengage Company, is a global provider of research and learning resources. Thanks to the ERS Library and California State Library, you and your students have FREE access to several of their databases via the ERS Portals. Connect to these fantastic resources with any internet-enabled device in the classroom, at home, or on the go.    Gale’s mission is to help students succeed in school and in life by connecting them to the curriculum-aligned digital content they need to become lifelong learners. Log into the ERS Portals to access these Gale databases: Grades 9-12 A cross-curricular research tool supporting science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.   Opposing Viewpoints Resource Guide  Grades 9-12 Provides forty mental health and wellness eBooks with guidance for students, teachers, and counselors. Many titles include suggestions regarding professional help: where to go and how to find additional information, letting our students know they are never alone.   Cameron’s Collection Student Flyer Locate the folder for your district, then school site.
PROVIDED COURTESY OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
Grades K-8 Gale's National Geographic Kids is designed to take children on amazing adventures in science, nature, wildlife, culture, geography, archaeology, and space. Users can access videos, pictures, and eBooks from National Geographic Kids, as well as every page of National Geographic Kids magazine. National Geographic Kids Tip Sheet	Grades 7-12 Gale Interactive: Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the lab to the classroom. High-value, rich-media digital content is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students in middle school and high school grades. Science Tip Sheet

Grades 9-12 Empowers learners to critically analyze and understand important topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more. Updated daily, this resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum. Environmental Studies Tip Sheet