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COMPASS Online Resources

Access the COMPASS (California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success) resources via CLEVER. See below for an overview of the resources and tutorial videos of how to utlize these online resources.

Britannica School Logo

 

Britannica Escolar Logo

 

A blue logo with a white globe and the text 'ProQuest CultureGrams'.

 

 

 

 

 

A blue logo with a white sailboat and the text 'ProQuest SIRS® Discoverer'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue logo with text "ProQuest eLibrary"

 

 

 

ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher logo with a scale of justice icon.

 

 

 

 

A red button with a white play icon, labeled 'ProQuest PBS Video Collection'.

Logo for National Geographic Kids

 

 

 

 

 

Gale Interactive Science

 

 

 

 

 

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies

 

 

 

 

 

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The ProQuest LibGuides logo, featuring white text on a teal background.

Britannica

  • Audience: Grades K-12
  • Description: Encyclopedia
  • Common assignments it supports: informational reports, general reference research

 

Escolar

  • Audience: Grades K-12
  • Description: Encyclopedia in Spanish
  • Common assignments it supports: informational reports, general reference research

 

CultureGrams

  • Audience: Grades K-12
  • Description: Unique cultural information provided by natives and long-term residents on daily life and social customs
  • Common assignments it supports: Country or state report, cultural research, cultural sensitivity

 

ProQuest SIRS Discoverer

  • Audience: Grades 3-9
  • Description: Selected age-appropriate content on topics of interest to upper elementary and middle school students
  • Common assignments it supports: Animal report, persuasive essay in middle school, biography report

 

 

 

ProQuest eLibrary

  • Audience: Grades 6-12
  • Description: Massive collection of digitized newspapers, magazines, and images with editorialized topic pages to aid with navigation
  • Common assignments it supports: Help narrowing down or finding a topic, general reference research, project requiring multimedia

 

 

ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher

  • Audience: Grades 6-12
  • Description: Selected articles and graphics on the enduring and talked-about issues of the day
  • Common assignments it supports: Persuasive essay, debate topics

 

ProQuest PBS Video Collection

  • Audience: Grades 6-12
  • Description: A streaming video collection providing an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS
  • Common assignments it supports: In-class use to introduce a topic, engage with students who are visual learners

 

 

NatGeoKids

  • Audience: Grades PreK-8th
  • Description: Nonfiction articles from National Geographic Kids Magazines; includes video
  • Common assignments it supports: All curricular areas

 

GALE Interactive Science

  • Audience: Grades 6-12
  • Description: Interactive tool, includes 3D modules to explore anatomy, chemistry, biology, earth science 
  • Common assignments it supports: Sciences

 

 

 

GALE Environmental Science

  • Audience: Grades 6-12
  • Description: Resources related to the environment including manmade impacts to policy and environmental sciences topics
  • Common assignments it supports: Sciences

 

 

 

Teaching Books

  • Audience: Educators
  • Description: Literacy resources and toolkits for a wide range of diverse titles including lesson plans, book trailers, author interviews, 
  • Common assignments it supports: All curricular areas

 

ProQuest LibGuide

  • Audience: Educators
  • Description: Resources for educators about how to use and implement ProQuest databases
  • Common assignments it supports: All curricular areas