Education and Social Science

Databases

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Connecting learners to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

The database offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

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Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.

Gale In Context: U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work established in the field.

gale world history

With Gale In Context: World History, access centuries worth of rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content, and give students the tools to research and learn effectively. Students can dive deeper into a variety of topics ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Holocaust to modern Human Rights Movements. Pinpoint comprehensive media-rich collections to help learners evaluate content in diverse formats and enhance their critical thinking skills.

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LearningExpress Library
More than 700 online practice tests and interactive skill-building tutorials plus 130 e-book titles developed by expert academic and industry professionals. Includes STAAR tutorials.

Explore articles and full text from Salem Press offerings, including careers, health, history, and science. 

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TeachingBooks.net
This easy-to-use website adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The database includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment.

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Teacher Reference Center
Read from many different peer-reviewed journals aimed at professional educators. 

Websites

Curriki
Curriki, a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a not-for-profit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which will provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12.

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Homeschooling Adventures
Homeschooling Adventures has worksheets, lesson plans, activities and information about laws pertaining to homeschooling.

Texas Education Agency
Find curriculum standards, school and district reports, teacher certification information and STAAR test resources.