Middle School

Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues.  Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.   

This unique database provides stellar support for papers, projects, and presentations while reinforcing the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.

• Topic Portals:  More than 335 topic portal pages to present material in the way most useful for students, and continuously updated
• Reference:  Contains more than 128 reference titles from Gale, UXL, Lucent, and Primary Source Media for reference articles, topic overviews, critical essays, and plot summaries
• Magazines:  More than 1,240 full-text periodicals providing more than 2 million articles
• News:  Over 1.5 million news results from sources such as KidsPost, Cross Currents, USA Today, CNN Wire, and more
• Multimedia:  Over 150,000 images;  nearly 12,800 videos, and more than 165,200  audio clips  from a variety of sources including the History Channel/A&E,  AP Video News, NASA, UPI Photo Collection, and NPR programs.
• Biographies:  51,300+ biographies from UXL Biographies, Newsmakers, Scientists: Their Lives & Works, Discovering Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography, and more.
• Primary Sources:  3,200+ core primary documents, including government documents, court testimony, letters, legislation, memoirs, and more.
• Integration with Google:  G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools so users can share, save, and download content, including highlights and notes.
• Alignment to state and national standards from grades 6-12 in language arts, social studies, and science
• EasyBib or NoodleTools citation tools
• MLA, APA, and Chicago-style citations *

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