CountryReports

Statistical information as well as cultural information which students, parents, teachers and researchers find valuable. CountryReports.org has over 26,000 pages of content

SIRS Decades

SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles.

 

Thomson Gale LitFinder

This enhanced service has different modules. Choose the one that best suits your students.
 
Poems  are a tried and true favorite, providing over 125,000 full text poems including more than 25,000 copyrighted poems. 800,000 poem citations.

Stories offers thousands of full text short stories, explanations and biographies. Also, includes Just Published Stories and pictures. Contents are based on standard library indexes of short stories.
 

Essays is a unique database with thousands of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. The controlled vocabulary subject access provides for precise searching. Full bibliographic information and Library of Congress subject classifications are provided for source books. thousands of full-text essays, biographies, pictures, and Genre Navigator.

Plays is the most complete single source of full-text plays, covering the full range of dramatic expression. Over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, children's and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Plays are analyzed for subjects, and also list all characters. This database will continue to grow with periodic updates to the most complete single-source for full-text plays available.
 

Speeches includes the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years.From antiquity to modern times, these speeches represent the finest examples of recorded oratory. Speechmakers have commented on the milestones of history as well as the minutiae of everyday life. We are collecting the best and the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and categorizing them into easily searchable genres.

The Foundation Directory Online

Search online for U.S. foundations, corporate giving programs, and grant making public charities -- over 68,000 funders in all. Also, offers extensive program details for 1,000 leading foundations, detailed application guidelines for 6,000+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of approximately 150,000 grants of $10,000 or more awarded by the to 1,200 funders and tutorials to make searching, writing and budgeting for your grant a smooth process.


Medianet

Order online from NCEMC's media collection of over 8,000 educational Videos, CDs, DVDs, and Books on Tape. Materials delivered to your school district.
 

Discovery Education unitedstreaming

Unitedstreaming.com is a video download and streaming system that instantly delivers over 2000 educational core-curriculum digital videos and over 20,000 clips. By simply searching the database, users are able to easily locate grade and subject specific content, and view the videos right on their computers. This can be done by downloading it onto their desktops, local server, or by live streaming. Each video has been indexed, giving educators the option of viewing the entire program or simply watching a short clip.

Additional features include extensive teacher's guides and blackline masters with pre- and post-tests for many of the videos and options to search via keyword, subject area and grade level to locate and use video content correlated to curriculum standards. Individuals have the ability to develop play lists and/or media groups for departments or subject areas.