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Learn more about any subject – for all grades and all reading abilities – offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended websites, and three separate databases (Elementary, Middle, or High).
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Gale Interactive: Science
Imagine what it would be like to learn complex science concepts with more confidence and less fear. Gale Interactive: Science is a virtual lab that gives students in middle and high school grades the power to see beyond static text and embrace learning outside of the classroom.
Going beyond textbooks and traditional science curriculum, 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 selected from authoritative classroom resources, like Gale In Context: Science and Gale OneFile, is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students in middle school and high school grades. Students can entertain their curiosity and inspire grade improvement through an experience that allows zooming in, rotating, or pulling models apart to explore and experiment with complex scientific topics.
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Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensure that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
Milestone Documents in American History (Salem Press)
Access 133 full-text primary source documents with analysis and commentary.
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ProQuest CultureGrams
Access concise and accurate information on the countries of the world. Includes individual reports for 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces written and reviewed by in-country experts and updated regularly. The engaging interface includes a worldwide photo gallery, slideshows, video clips, famous people collection, Faces of the Worlds interviews, recipe collection, and data tables to help put facts into perspective and for comparison.
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ProQuest eLibrary
The ProQuest eLibrary simplifies the research process, making it easier for researchers to select their topics and get connected with scholarly information. Includes more than 11,000+ editor-created Research Topics on a vast array of people, places, historical events and eras, literary genres, current events, broad curricular themes, and much more. Editor’s picks and trending topics make it easier to explore appropriate subject matter and get started. Includes primary and scholarly sources in 100% full text. Includes 1,700+ magazines, newspapers, transcripts, and digitized reference book content. Includes more than seven million images, maps, websites, videos, and interactive simulations.
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ProQuest SIRS Discoverer
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers online learning for free about absolutely anything, including science and engineering, computing, arts and humanities, economics and finance, test prep, and much more.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Search for word meanings, pronunciation, origin, synonyms, and more. Merriam-Webster has been a trusted dictionary resource since 1828. Browse the ‘Word of the Day,’ word games, and word quizzes.
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Quizlet
Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study site. Free access includes flashcard development for topic studying and review, as well as games for learning.
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Oral Language Festivals
Schools all over Kern County participate in the Oral Language Festival, a competitive event where students perform interpretations of a piece of literature in front of an audience. Literature selections must be published works that are available to all students. Pieces from organizational newsletters, the Internet, and regional newspapers are not acceptable. Overall, most published works are appropriate Oral Language texts and you can choose any book you like! Pieces must be in 3-5 minutes in length, so you may edit the piece to an appropriate length. Since new titles are continuously available, any picture book found in the Children’s area is a good place to start. Pieces should be appropriate for age, event, and presentation to a community audience. Be sure to check out YouTube for videos of past Oral Language winners!
- Serious Solo
- Humorous Solo
- Serious Duo – 2 students
- Humorous Duo – 2 students
- Verse Choir – 3 to 6 students
- Impromptu Speech
- Kern County Superintendent of Schools – Oral Language
- Oral Language Coach’s Handbook
- Bakersfield City School District – Oral Language Information
| Book Name | Author |
|---|---|
| Little Match Girl | Andersen, H.C. |
| In the Ghetto: Teens Who Survived the Ghettos of the Holocaust | Ayer, Eleanor H. |
| Great Slave Narratives | Bontemps, Arna |
| A Day’s Work | Bunting, Eve |
| Fly Away Home | Bunting, Eve |
| The Wall | Bunting, Eve |
| The Fall of Freddie the Leaf | Buscaglia, Leo |
| Competition Monologues II | Various |
| The Rough Face Girl | Martin, Rafe |
| The Highwayman | Noyes, Alfred |
| The Giving Tree | Silverstein, Shel |
| Casey at the Bat | Thayer, Ernest L |
| Our Town | Wilder, Thornton |
| The Polar Express | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| Name | Author |
|---|---|
| Thirty Famous One Act Plays | Bennett, Cerf |
| 50/50 Monologues for Student Actors | Depner, Mary |
| Winning Monologues for Young Actors | Kehret, Peg |
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America’s Battle of the Books
America’s Battle of the Books is a nationwide reading incentive program encouraging students to read titles from a predetermined list and battle out their knowledge in a friendly competition.
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Google Translate
Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service. It includes language recognition, strong translations, and pronunciations.
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