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Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. This database contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner’s Sons and U·X·L reference titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day. Watch an Overview and See the Benefits of the InContext learning environment.
Target Audience: Grades 6-12
Content Connections: English/Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Health, Arts
Standards Alignment
Features a national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline. In the database, click Curriculum Standards on the toolbar to find Related Subjects in the database aligned with national and state curriculum standards.
Content & Features
In addition to the engaging, streamlined interface and media-rich topic pages, the product's unprecedented collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives include:
Pro/con viewpoint essays
Topic overviews
More than 300 primary source documents
Biographies of social activists and reformers
Court-case overviews
Periodical articles
Statistical tables, charts and graphs
Images and a link to Google Image Search
Podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
Learning Supports & Tools
Interface available in more than 34 languages
ReadSpeaker technology with 19 text-to-speech languages
Dictionary
Downloadable PDFs allow for offline reading anytime, anywhere
Source citations at the bottom of each article. Export citations to NoodleTools.
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Lexile/Reading Level: Used Advanced Search for a target audience or Lexile range; or after searching, Limit Search Results (on right sidebar) to a reading level or Lexile range.
Direct Linking: Click the Bookmark button on the horizontal navigation bar; a new window will open displaying the direct link URL. See the GALE Bookmarking Guide and Bookmarking video tutorial for more information about creating direct links to GALE database content.
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