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Britannica School allows children to search by topic—there is an entire section on "pets"—the layout is image-forward and easy to navigate. Text is scaled to the appropriate level, and users have the option of using a read-aloud function that highlights each word as the narration reads it aloud. Free with a Pennsylvania public library card.

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Enter the Access ID and Passcode provided by your school to access Britannica School.

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Deciding on a pet is not only a fact-driven choice; it's also a heart-driven one. BookFLIX pairs a nonfiction and a fiction book to give readers a wide-ranging, nuanced view of a single topic. (I liked their pairing of Emily Jenkins's picture book That New Animal with Laine Falk and Joan Michael's Let's Explore the Five Sense with City Dog and Country Dog.) Free with a Pennsylvania public library card.

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BookFlix: Where Stories and Nonfiction Connect

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With Gale In Context: Elementary, patrons can access a wealth of information delivered in textual and visual forms, including a bar graph of 2023's most popular pets. Free with a Pennsylvania public library card.

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Start Children on the Path to Discovery

Children learn best when there are fewer barriers to learning. That's why Gale's popular, kid-friendly student database, Gale In Context: Elementary, matches how students naturally navigate online.

Elementary school resources like Gale In Context: Elementary give children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore interests inside and outside the classroom. It also gives teachers access to digital resources that can supplement and enhance in-person and online instruction.

Like you, we want kids to be excited about learning, not overwhelmed! By linking library resources to the classroom, educators can make learning more engaging for students. With a simple, easy-to-navigate platform, Gale In Context: Elementary helps students gradually become comfortable with research. Elementary delivers age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content that covers a broad range of subjects, like animals, geography, health, influential people, literature, social studies, sports, and technology.

Unlike other classroom databases in the market, Gale In Context: Elementary has rich visuals that are immediately welcoming to kids through grade 5. With a modern design and intuitive search functions,the Elementary database makes it easy for elementary-school children, teachers, and parents to find information related to lessons in articles, magazines, eBooks, periodicals, reference materials, and more. Plus, it gives users the option to plan fun activities around what they're learning.

Available resources include full-text proprietary content from top education publishers, like Encyclopaedia Britannica, Blackbirch Press, KidsPost from the Washington Post, Youngzine, and more. Our content is continuously updated, giving kids an easy way to search for relevant and important facts connected to current and past events.
Direct Access to Your K-5 eBooks
To make cross-searching across Gale resources easier, we've includeda Books tab on the main Gale In Context: Elementary topic page. The tab connects students directly to your K-5 eBooks from Gale, offering them uninterrupted access to elementary-school content. Student eBooks not only add depth to instructional content but they also complement other resources within Elementary.
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We've curated age-appropriate, fun, and engaging student eBook collections to safely introduce elementary students to the research process-and inspire a lifelong love of learning. When reading these eBooks within Gale In Context: Elementary, students benefit from a kid-friendly environment designed for them, complete with a simplified eBook viewer and ReadSpeaker at the book level.

K-5 eBook collections are an easy way to offer more eBooks based on class subjects and student interests. One of our favorite elementary student eBook collections, the Jump Start Collection, includes over 120 titles that cover each of the main topics on the Gale In Context: Elementary home page. It's a simple way to add the depth of eBooks in multiple subject areas with a single purchase.
Easy-to-Find Elementary Content
Along with learning activities, Gale In Context: Elementary includes indexed, searchable content with:

More than 16,600 images to visually enhance projects

Over 1,700 charts and graphs for students to easily download and add to reports

More than 600 high-quality educational videos

Over 1,050 topic pages for "one-stop-shop" learning

All of the K-5 eBooks you have access to

Gale In Context: Elementary ensures equity and continuity for all students in your district. As part of the Gale In Context suite of resources, this database advances education and gives young learners the research skills they'll need in middle school, high school, and beyond.

You can also leverage your Gale In Context student databases by adding Gale In Context: For Educators. This specialized tool kit lets all school educators collect, organize, customize, and share resources from their school's library subscribed Gale In Context databases.

FEATURED RESEARCH

In a nationwide study conducted by Project Tomorrow®, 100 percent of grade school teachers said their primary goal is to differentiate instruction for young learners.

Platform Features & Tools

I WONDER . . .

Continuously updated "I Wonder . . ." questions located on the home page engage kids and draw them into subject areas.

LEVELED CONTENT

Leveled topic overviews provide users with both a basic and advanced version of the same overview, allowing educators to differentiate instruction.

Workflow Tools

Integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content-including highlights and notes. Learn More

"The interface is clean and intuitive and the content timely. Whether as an environment for teaching younger students about database searching or providing a platform for exploring on their own, for informal browsing or for targeted searching, Gale In Context: Elementary is an excellent resource."

"For those interested in personalizing education, allowing students to read about people from their culture, and seeing history from multiple perspectives, this resource is terrific. Gale In Context: Elementary also allows teachers to share curated resources and primary sources with students. This phenomenal tool enables culturally relevant teaching, which is a great need in schools today."

"I like using Gale In Context: Elementary. It has lots of things I never knew! It was funner learning on Gale In Context: Elementary!!!!!! I definitely didn't know that Texas has a Tornado Alley."

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Children learn best when there are fewer barriers to learning. That's why Gale's popular, kid-friendly student database, Gale In Context: Elementary, matches how students naturally navigate online. Elementary school resources like Gale In Context: Elementary give children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore interests inside and outside the classroom.

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This resource offers award-winning science books, along with related articles, project ideas, and videos. A patron seeking more information about reptiles, for example, can also find an article about the dangers of keeping wild and exotic pets from Scholastic Math (a publication I never would have thought to check for information about pets!). Free with a Pennsylvania public library card.

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AT A GLANCE

WHAT

Digital Science and Social Studies Units

FOR

Grades 3 and up

HOW

Web-based, unlimited access, unlimited users

TERMS

One-year subscription

PRICING

Schools: Per Building
Public Libraries: Per Population Served

Beautiful, authentic ebooks are enhanced with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content in a variety of text types and media-including primary sources, fiction, videos, audio clips, images, and related websites. TrueFlix® helps students improve literacy skills, build content-area knowledge, and cultivate the critical skills necessary for academic success and college and career readiness.

TrueFlix helps students:

Comprehend and evaluate a range of texts

Build strong content knowledge

Use technology and digital media strategically and capably

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TrueFlix | Interactive Science & Social Studies Learning

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AT A GLANCE WHAT Digital Science and Social Studies Units FOR Grades 3 and up HOW Web-based, unlimited access, unlimited users TERMS One-year subscription PRICING Schools: Per Building Public Libraries: Per Population Served Beautiful, authentic ebooks are enhanced with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content in a variety of text types and media-including primary sources, fiction, videos, audio clips, images, and related websites.

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Innovative interactive graphics make it fun to browse and explore your preferred topic. An article on pet care encourages users to click on the pets you're most interested in to see what type of upkeep they require. Free.

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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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Articles and videos from the World Almanac Kids offer insight on topics including presidential pets, animals you wouldn't want as a pet, and the cost of pet ownership. Subscription required.

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InfoBase Just for Kids Streaming Collection

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InfoBase Just for Kids Streaming Collection

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This resource allows users to find streaming videos that are fact-based or feature beloved fictional characters. Either approach will help the patron gather information on their desired subject. The episode The Trouble With Pets from the Berenstain Bears might be a good fit for this family. Subscription required.

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Just for Kids Streaming Collection - Infobase

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Explore the essential online curriculum-based resources for instructors and students offered by Infobase. Easily integrate courseware, content, and tools seamlessly into your learning management systems for efficient researching and course creation.

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This book recommendation database allows librarians and patrons to search for recommended books by keyword, then narrow by a range of filters, including audience age, format, and fiction/nonfiction. Listings include industry reviews, which might not be of interest to young patrons, but are a great source of support for caregivers, educators, and librarians who are assisting young patrons in their search. Free with a Pennsylvania public library card.

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EBSCO Information Services, Inc. | www.ebsco.com

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Connecting readers, books, and libraries We believe books and libraries have the power to change lives. For over 25 years, we have been working with libraries to support their communities and change the future, one reader at a time.

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After narrowing down a list of books or audiobooks with EBSCO NoveList Plus, I might recommend searching for and checking them out on Libby. The app is a great, user-friendly way to engage with audiobooks and e-books; my library has a surprisingly robust selection of kids' books and audiobooks. Free app; must have a card from a participating library to access titles.

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Phew—that's a lot of information! Sometimes we just want have a moment and connection and play with a special animal. Take a minute to dream up a magical pet, name it, and care for it with The Creature Garden app, which emphasizes creativity and storytelling. Named to the ALA's ALSC list of Notable Children's Digital Media in 2021. Paid app.

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Play The Creature Garden, a new app by Tinybop. Kids develop creative-thinking, problem-solving & storytelling skills.