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CPS Databases
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Rich reference resources for social studies, history, geography, current events, with teacher resources and links to textbooks. Great for biographies! Includes essays, maps, images, eBooks, primary documents, activities and more. |
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This online database for state research reports allows searches of over 1,400 colorful, easy-to-read, highly interactive articles with over 2,300 of the most useful Web links. |
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TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading. |
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4,000+ maps, current events materials, handouts, quizzes, games, lesson plans. |
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In addition to millions of articles on as many topics, this online encyclopedia includes Internet links, journal and magazine articles, teacher resources, timelines, dictionaries and atlas resources. Select the appropriate grade level. |
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Professional and educational magazine and journal articles. Includes ERIC, WorldCat, Article-First, WilsonSelect, and others. |
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Chicago Tribune Historical Archive (1845 to 1984), Chicago Tribune (1985 to present), Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present). Includes the Big6 Resource Center. |
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Thomson Gale
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A fully integrated database for high school containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and audio and video clips.
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Full-text of 126,500 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays.
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CPS resources in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students; Countries and their Cultures; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy; Modern American Literature and more!
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Over 1,400 essays on medical and health-related topics including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the medical and science fields. Full-text medical and health periodicals, pamphlets, a timeline, photographs and diagrams. Fully integrated into Student Resource Center Gold.
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Professional Resources for Teachers and Administrators
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The Gale Professional Collection includes a custom collection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators and administrators.
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Online database and library of 345 videos at the Professional Library.
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Resources from the Digital Library Project offering high-quality digital library of materials to supplement classroom instruction as well as support individual student inquiry. Special collections include: Chicago and African-American studies.
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This is your guide to the Professional Library's excellent resources for professional development materials for teachers and librarians, collection development aids, children's library materials, and educational videotapes and CD-ROMS.
Book Box Reading Resources: The CPS Professional Library has created a book box loan process in order to assist our high school and middle school book clubs. The selection list will be expanded this year to include additional elementary grade-level titles. Currently, the collection consists of fifty-eight titles.
Each box consists of twenty books of the same title. The titles were selected from a variety of genres and have been critically well reviewed. These books are in the paperback format popular with teenagers and younger readers.
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