Direct Linking
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Overview
In Context High School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access reference articles, primary sources, and news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. Subjects covered include: Humanities & Social Sciences, Literature, Science, U.S. History, and World History. See full Title List.
Target Audience: Grades 9-12
Content Connections: All
Access: Username and password information for BCPS staff and students can be found on the BCPS Digital Content Access Page.
⭐Click here to see a list of translation, accommodation, and modification features available for English Language Learners and students with special education needs.⭐
Learning How
GALE Tools video tutorials (tools included in all GALE databases):
Guides:
3. Knowledge Constructor- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
Features & Learning Supports
Interface available in more than 34 languages
ReadSpeaker technology with 19 text-to-speech languages
Dictionary
Downloadable PDFs allow for offline reading anytime, anywhere
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