UMS Online Databases

You will need our school login and password for each of these subscription databases.
 
Bridges Bridges   CultureGrams CultureGrams
Career and education planning system offering test prep, career information, and planning tools   Provides cultural, historical, and geographical information on countries around the world
     
WorldBook Worldbook   World BookKids
Full-text of the print version plus additional articles, an atlas, multimedia content, and "Behind the Headlines" (current events) as well as an intermediate-level Spanish language encyclopedia   A version of World Book Online for younger students that infuses creativity and wonder in learning
     
SIRS SIRS Discoverer   TeachingBooks TeachingBooks
General reference database for children in grades 1-9 with full-text articles and images. Features include activities such as science experiments, craft projects, writing activities, biographies of every U.S. President and other notable people, fiction articles, and country facts. Discoverer WebFind is a database of carefully chosen Internet resources on almost any subject appropriate for researchers in grades 1-9.   Original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature
     
SIRSKS SIRSKS   Student Resource Center SRCjr
Collection of 5 databases for students in grade 6-12. Full-text articles, graphics, photographs, government documents, ebooks, and previewed web sites   A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 300 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
     
Science
 
Infotrac
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
  Infotrack Junior Edition periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
     
WorldAlmanac World Almanac  
Issues Issues
Facts, figures, and other statistical information on topics of general interest   Topical essays provide a thorough review of all sides of an issue
     
 
Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the dicoveries pushing the boundraies of science today. Updated weekly!   Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
     
Gale    
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