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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

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Overview

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.
  • Highlight & take notes; Sign In with Microsoft Office to export highlights/notes to OneDrive. 
  • 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.  

 

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