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CGHS Databases

New this year:

Learn360:   Academic documentaries and movies!

Swank K12 Streaming:  Movie streaming for the classroom

Cameron’s Collection: Digital books about mental, physical, sex health topics. Science based information. Multi-use, simultaneous check-outs. Use school emails or “cghs” for the password.

Databases

Titles are linked to the databases, and followed by username/password if needed. 

World History Encyclopedia: With 13,922 images, videos, and 3D models.

Bloom’s Literary Criticism: casagrande /gauchos Literature database

Encyclopedia Britannica School (English)

Encyclopedia Britannica Escolar (Spanish)

Global Issues in Context: cghs       Empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world

World History in Context: petaluma  
Gale In Context: World History reaches back to the ancient world—and forward to today's headlines—to deliver a chronicle of the people, cultures, events, and societies that have formed the history of the human race.


ProQuest CultureGrams: petaluma/P3t@luma Concise cultural information on countries around the world

ProQuest eLibrary: petaluma/P3t@luma General reference collection of periodical and digital media content for beginning researchers

ProQuest Central: petaluma/P3t@luma Database of millions of articles from more than 10,000 full-text scholarly journals

ProQuest Research Companion: petaluma/P3t@luma Information literacy tools and tutorials to help develop critical thinking.

SIRS Discover: petaluma/P3t@luma    Selected content for beginning researchers. Perfect to focus on using information. ​


SIRS Researcher: petaluma/P3t@luma Curriculum-aligned database organized by current events & complex issues

Teen Health and Wellness: petaluma/petaluma Medical Board certified mental and physical health information





OUR WORLD IS DATA: Our World in Data is a non-profit website that brings together the data and research on the powerful, long-run trends reshaping our world: Through interactive data visualizations we show how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we explain why.
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​The State of California has created quick access links for the databases below. You may use this link to access databases from anywhere in California WITHOUT logging in. 

California K-12 Digital Resources

Online content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, ProQuest research databases, and TeachingBooks.net are available — at school, at home, in libraries, on laptops, on phones — to all.

These three databases are provided for all California students from the California State Library.


Encyclopaedia Britannica (PreK-12)

A comprehensive interactive resource for research and learning for grades K-12. Includes correlations to California Content Standards and other valuable teacher resources. Post links directly to each school level, elementary, middle or high.

Elementary  Middle  High Escolar

Need help from Britannica? See our support page. (800) 621-3900 x 7160 | edsupport@eb.com

TeachingBooks.net (PreK-12)

One-stop resources for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content.

      

      

Need help from TeachingBooks.net? See our support page. (800) 596-0710 | accounts@TeachingBooks.net

ProQuest (Grades 3-12)

CultureGrams SIRS Discover SIRS Issues Researcher elibrary Guided Research Edition elibrary Database Edition ProQuest Central Student

ProQuest Research Companion Schools and Educators Complete

  • CultureGrams - Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world. (Grades 3-12)
  • SIRS Discoverer - A general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators. (Grades 3-9)
  • SIRS Issues Researcher - Pros and cons on 360+ (and growing) complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day. (Grades 6+)
  • eLibrary - Guided Research edition delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content including more than 11,000 Research Topics (Grades 6+)
  • eLibrary - Database Edition General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. (Grades 6+)
  • ProQuest Central Student - designed to bring instant results to users across thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and more. This resource brings together some of ProQuest's most used databases in education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news. (Grades 9+, IB, AP, College Prep)
  • ProQuest Research Companion - a self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction.(Grades 8+)
  • Schools & Educators Complete - eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology. (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)

Need help from ProQuest? See our support page. (800) 521-0600 ext. 72971 | customerservice@proquest.com


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