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Media & Technology: Online Resources

Online Resources
 

Access Newspaper Archive NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. NewspaperARCHIVE.com is adding newspaper pages faster than you can search them - with one newspaper page added every second - that’s over 80,000 images a day, or about 2.5 million pages per month!
CQ Press
CQ Press is your first source for information on politics, policy, and people. The online databases are widely used for teaching and promoting information literacy and the content is known for objectivity, breadth and depth of coverage and high standards of journalistic and editorial excellence.
Discovery Education Science
Discovery Education Science is the supplemental multimedia toolkit that shows you what students know so you can better target your instruction. It delivers dynamic, up-to-date, high-quality content in a flexible online format that will bring your curriculum to life and powerfully engage today’s technology-savvy students with science.

EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is a leading producer of electronic reference databases for a variety of library settings. These resources are designed to meet the needs of Iowa researchers through a pairing of the highest-quality content with subject-appropriate, state-of-the-art research environments.
Facts On File
Facts On File is an award-winning publisher of print and online reference materials in the subject areas of science, history, careers, literature, geography, and more. Schools and libraries have relied on our curriculum-oriented reference content for more than 60 years.

Gale
Thomson Gale, part of The Thomson Corporation, has built a reputation spanning more than 50 years as a trusted name in education publishing and e-research. True to our commitment of boosting achievement among learners of all ages, we proudly offer Iowa K-12 schools access to four of our most popular online resources, including the award-winning Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
 


Available to all K-12 Students in Iowa*
Iowa AEA Online includes electronic educational resources, funded and provided by Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEAs) to all Iowa accredited K-12 schools. (*EBSCOhost is available to all citizens of Iowa.)
netTrekker
netTrekker is the award-winning search engine for schools that increases teacher and student productivity. Through fast and easy access to over 180,000 high quality, educator-selected online resources delivered to every desktop, netTrekker enhances teaching and learning. netTrekker provides results across the complete K-12 curriculum, and features an interactive timeline, famous person list generator and easy-to-use collaboration tools. netTrekker integrates technology and curriculum resources into the classroom and daily education experience.

NoodleTools
NoodleTools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or APA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier!

ProQuest/SIRS K12
ProQuest provides easy-to-use, web-based, standards-aligned, and curriculum-focused educational resources to power learning and increase student achievement
ProQuest/SIRS - Public & Academic
ProQuest is committed to making research an exceptionally powerful experience and have built an entire organization around the philosophy that information should be readily and easily available for those who seek it. ProQuest uses experts to create and organize information. From arts to economics, genealogy to technology, medicine to science, and history to literature, we bring an extraordinary combination of immediacy and history across and within many different subject areas. ProQuest has many products geared towards growth and success that aid in the process of discovery, and we’re eager to help open patron eyes and minds everywhere!
Rosen Teen Health and Wellness Database
Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers, the award-winning, critically acclaimed database from Rosen Publishing Online, provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs & alcohol, fitness & nutrition, mental & emotional health, work readiness skills, family life, cyber-literacy, and more.

 

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