Div+III+(7-9)+Resources+&+Training

You will find the following resources listed alphabetically with full content descriptors under the Online Reference Centre tab at [|Learnalberta.ca.] On this page you will find a brief description of each Division III resource and the training materials available.
 * Division III (7-9) ORC Resources **

**Alberta Source ** Locate complete study units on Alberta History for SS, LA, First Nations studies in AlbertaSource.ca!

Click [|HERE] for the **"Self Directed Teachers' Guide"**.
 * Alberta Source Training Materials **

**CBC News in Review ** Use this **NEW RESOURCE ** to browse for CBC News in Review videos organized into topics such as Canadian History, Geography, Global Studies, Government & Politics, Science & Technology and World History. Resource guides are included. New video content is available 8 times a year beginning in September.

**CBC News in Review Training Materials** Click HERE to learn more about how to use News in Review in the classroom.

Click HERE for recent CBC News in Review resource guides.

Click HERE for worksheets available from CBC News in Review.

News In Review Index Sept 2009-May 2010

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Culturegrams ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This database provides detailed information on every country in the world! Includes images, slideshows,statistical graphing tool,recipes and much more. Includes interviews with children, teens and adults from countries all over the world. Check out the [|Culturgrams Teaching Activities.]

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|HERE] if you are interested in viewing a **2-minute overview** of this resources.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Culturegrams Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are looking for something more in-depth, click [|HERE] for the **full training video**. This video in its entity is about 30 minutes long. However you can skip around to find sections that are relevant for you. Be sure to check out the "Searching + Content" section which is 12:11 minutes.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To look at the archived **podcasts** from ProQuest click[| HERE].

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Canadian Points of View ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Addresses multiple points of view on over 200 current social issues with a Canadian perspective. Search for magazine and newspaper articles, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, images, video clips and Web links.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click HERE to access a **6-minute video overview** of Canadian Points of View. Topics include: browse by category, advanced searching, research tools and research guides.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Canadian Points of View Training Materials **



**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Canadian Reference Centre ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Search here for current events in popular Canadian newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, CBC radio & TV transcripts, as well as international news. eg. Canada & the World; Maclean's; Canadian Geographic; History Today; Science Activities; and many more!


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Canadian Reference Centre Training Materials **



**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Histor!ca The Canadian Encyclopedia ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For everything Canadian regardless of topic!

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|"Histor!ca"]to access great teacher support materials.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Histor!ca Training Materials **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eLibrary ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use this database to locate current magazine and newspaper articles, maps, pictures, Web links, and audio and video clips. [|Proquest Essential pages] provide up to the minute pre-selected content in multi-formats (magazine, journal and newspaper articles, web links, images, audio/video) for all subject areas for 7-9.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|Here] for the pdf Quickstart Guide.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eLibrary Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click HERE if you are interested in viewing a 2-minute overview of this resources.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are looking for a very in-depth overview of how to perform searches, navigate the database and use the embedded features, click HERE for the full training video. This video in its entity is almost 2 hours long. However you can skip around to find sections that are relevant for you at the moment. Sections include: Introduction/Quick Tips (3:47), eLibrary Overview (5:15), Searching eLibrary (28:54), eLibrary Tools (23:02), My eLibrary (55:25). Although the introduction references US content, the other sections are about how to use the resource and thus more applicable to Alberta teachers.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To look at the archived podcasts from ProQuest click HERE.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Global Issues in Context - NEW TO ORC for Grades 7-12! ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use Global Issues in Context for locating critical analysis related to topics such as business and economy; environment and climate change; conflict and diplomacy; government, politics and law; health and medicine; science and technology; and society and culture. The database includes newspapers, magazines, journals, reference works, web sites, primary sources, videos, and more.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For a **3-minute guided tutorial** on navigating the Global Issues in Context homepage and performing a basic search click HERE.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Global Issues in Context Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For a 4-minute guided tutorial on **article options** for the Global Issues in Context database click HERE.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Learn about using the Global Issues in Context **portal pages** in this 4-minute guided tutorial. Click HERE.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|Lessons Plans Global Issues in Context] for **list of lessons** created for teacher use with this resource. To start: scroll down the "product list" to Global Issues in Context, click that title and then select lesson plan.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This general encyclopedia that includes interactive atlas, dictionary, images, web links, games and more. Moderate reading level ([|Lexile Reading Levels]) ...use the Advanced Search option to return results at a specific reading level.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Grolier Online Passport **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|HERE] for a short tutorial on Grolier Online Passport.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Grolier Online Training Materials **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">History Study Centre ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Find historical reference material such as newspaper and journal articles, rare books, video clips, images, historical and contemporary maps, biographies, statistics, Web links, and time lines in this database.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**History Study Centre Training Materials** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click here for a full list of accessible [|Study Units]

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Peel's Prairies Provinces ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This database provides primary documents (images, newspaper articles, related to early history and culture of Métis and First Nations peoples, Franco-Albertans, Alberta local history, the history of Edmonton, and Alberta Railways.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|HERE] for link to special Featured Collections.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Peel's Prairie Provinces Training Materials **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ProQuest Learning Literature ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This database provides full-text works of poetry, prose and drama from around the world, author biographies, literary criticism, essays, reviews, and much more!

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">See document below to view comprehensive list of available study pages/units.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ProQuest Learning Literature Training Materials **



**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Science in Context ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Locate magazine articles, science experiments, encyclopedia entries, images, audio and video clips, illustrations, graphs and Web links related to a wide range of scientific study in this database.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For a 1-minute guided tutorial on navigating the Science in Context **homepage** click HERE.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Science in Context Training **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For a 2-minute guided tutorial on **searching** the Science in Context database click HERE.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Learn about the **topic pages and documents** in Science in Context in this 3-miunute guided tutorial. Click HERE.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Statistics Canada** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">While the Statistics Canada’s Education Outreach Program ended in June 2012, many of the great resources developed through the program will remain accessible on the site. Check it out!

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Statistics Canada Training Materials** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click [|here] for an archived Teachers' Tool Box.

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">TeachingBooks.net ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Learn how to bring an author into your classroom any time you need one! Type an author's name in the widget below to preview content from this resource. If you are logged in to this wiki at school you will automatically be able to access content from this resource. If you are away from the school, you will need your school district user/pw.

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">TeachingBooks.net now offers a **Self-Paced PD Module** to Develop a Multimedia & Reading Implementation Plan (90 min) To access it visit: PD Module
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teaching Books Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Alternately, check out this **3 minute video** about TeachingBooks.net.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Visual Thesaurus is an interactive thesaurus and dictionary that can be used to look up words and related concepts, as well as hear word pronunciation. Features 6 languages including French, Spanish and German.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">[[image:orcwiki/visual_thesaurus.jpg]] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Visual Thesaurus - New to the ORC for Grades 3-12! **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To learn more about how to use Visual Thesaurus as a **dictionary and thesaurus** click HERE for a 4-minute video.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Visual Thesaurus Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Find out how to adjust your Visual Thesaurus **settings** in this 2-minute video.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are using Visual Thesaurus with an **interactive whiteboard** check this 2-minute video out.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To learn more about how the **pop-up menus** in Visual Thesaurus work watch this 3-minute video.

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WorldBook Student ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A general encyclopedia that includes atlas, dictionary (with voice pronunciations), images, web links, charts, and a "My Research" option for students to track and save their research online. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Text-to-speech new for fall 2012! **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WorldBook provides a **12-minute overview** of their Student edition HERE.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WorldBook Training Materials **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are teaching searching skills, WorldBook provides **scavenger hunts** related to the curriculum that may help. Click HERE to see all of the topics available.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For more information about the **free monthly training** that WorldBook offers, click HERE.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This general encyclopedia includes articles, maps, pictures, illustrations, current events, audio and video clips, **e-books**, and Web links on a wide range of current and historical topics. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Text-to-speech new for fall 2012! **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:worldbookadvanced.gif]]WorldBook Advanced **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WorldBook provides a **10-minute overview** of their Advanced edition HERE.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WorldBook Advanced Training **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If you are teaching searching skills, WorldBook provides **scavenger hunts** related to the curriculum that may help. Click HERE to see all of the topics available.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For more information about the **free monthly training** that WorldBook offers, click HERE.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Don't forget: **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">ORC PD sessions for Alberta teachers/school support staff are free. For more information contact Jamie Davis, ORC Coordinator.