Keystone Academy Libraries: MS Science: Grade 8 Earth Spheres

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Britannica School
Britannica School provides general encyclopedia information. It is good for finding information about a topic when you begin research. It includes up-to-date information sources and allows you to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.
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Gale in Context: Global Issues
Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
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Gale in Context: Middle School
Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale in Context: Science
Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
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Gale Interactive: Science
Science comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models. View related reference articles and search Gale content to find more information.
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Gale Power Search
Use Gale Power Search to search all the Gale databases at once. Discover a collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reference content.
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National Geographic Virtual Library
Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.
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Newsela
Newsela is a reading tool that provides news articles designed to match a student's reading level.
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World Book Online
World Book is a general information encyclopedia database with an American slant. Use this source to find out about your topic when you begin research.
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读秀 Duxiu
读秀是由海量全文数据及资料基本信息组成的超大型数据库。其以430多万种中文图书、10亿页全文资料为基础，为用户提供深入内容的章节和全文检索，部分文献的原文试读，以及高效查找、获取各种类型学术文献资料的一站式检索，周到的参考咨询服务，是一个真正意义上的学术搜索引擎及文献资料服务平台。

Some possible keywords for searches about Earth Spheres:

Interactions in the Earth System
Examples of interactions between spheres.
NASA's Visible Earth
A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
Exploratorium - Climate change research explorer
At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.

Live Science
For the science geek in everyone, Live Science breaks down the stories behind the most interesting news and photos on the Internet, while also digging up fascinating discoveries that hit on a broad range of fields, from dinosaurs and archaeology to wacky physics and astronomy to health and human behavior. If you want to learn something interesting every day, Live Science is the place for you.
Science News for Students
Founded in 2003, Science News for Students is an award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate, topical science news to learners, parents and educators.