AVL Gale In Context: Middle School Kourtney Burwell

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In this video, we’ll explore Gale in Context: Middle School, a valuable resource designed specifically for middle school students, as well as high school students who may benefit from content at a lower reading level. This resource offers access to a diverse range of age-appropriate and reliable content, including articles, images, videos, and reference materials that support learning and research across all subject areas. Whether students are working on school projects, building background knowledge, or exploring topics of personal interest, Gale in Context: Middle School offers a user-friendly and engaging platform to support their academic success.

AVL's Gale in Context: Middle School

To help my seventh grade geography students research different countries for their passport project, I would guide them to the Gale In Context: Middle School resource within the Alabama Virtual Library. Once there, students can use the search bar to type the name of a country they’re researching or click on the list of countries. Each country page includes key facts such as geography, population, culture, government, economy, and current events. I would instruct students to explore the article sections, images, maps, and videos provided.  If this was a project where I required citations they could use the built-in citation tools to properly credit their sources. This platform provides information that is reliable, age-appropriate, and aligned with academic standards.  It is perfect for helping student "travel" around the world for their passport project.

AVL- Kaitlyn Woodall

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PebbleGo is an educational database designed specifically for K–3 students, offering engaging, age-appropriate informational texts across subjects such as science, social studies, biographies, animals, and health. Its focus is on building foundational research and reading skills through interactive articles, audio supports, and multimedia features tailored to young learners. PebbleGo promotes independent exploration and supports early literacy development with read-aloud functionality and built-in scaffolding. In my current or future role as an elementary teacher or school librarian, I could use PebbleGo to support a research project on animals, where students select an animal, read the article, take notes using a graphic organizer, and then present their findings to the class.

AVL

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Alabama Virtual Library website is an astonishing website, I clicked on High School resources, I scrolled down and I saw a massive amount of information. The information that I saw was business resources, current events, science & health, images & art and a numerous amount of other topics. I could use this in my classroom by allowing students to gain knowledge about topics that interest them, allowing them to use the site as a resource to study a topic that interest them. Discuss what they learned with the class and myself. 

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EBSCOhost is a powerful academic database platform that provides access to a wide range of scholarly journals, magazines, eBooks, and research articles across multiple disciplines. Its focus is on delivering credible, peer-reviewed content to support academic research and lifelong learning. EBSCOhost is recommended for high school, college, and adult users due to the academic nature and reading level of its resources. As a high school physical education teacher, I could use EBSCOhost to locate recent studies and articles on topics such as exercise science, sports psychology, injury prevention, and adolescent health. For example, I might assign students to research how physical activity impacts mental well-being and have them use EBSCOhost to find and cite relevant sources, helping them strengthen both their health knowledge and research literacy skills.

Alabama Virtual Library

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I chose to use Pronunicator. This is a language learning resources through AVL and allows language students (children and adults) to learn a variety of languages and practice what they have learned. There are currently around 300 languages, including Sign Language, that can be learned. The resource gives access to chat bots, podcasts, leveled courses, and specialized courses such as medical language for healthcare workers. I think this could also be a good resource for schools who may not have teachers for certain languages and wanted to do something like Access courses. 

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When searching through the Alabama virtual library, I found a resource that would be a great asset for business and economic teachers at the high school level. I chose was Business Insights: Global. This resource provided an in-depth analysis Of companies across the world, it gives anyone the opportunity to search most companies in the world and a detail analysis of each. Along with data, articles and news updates are included. The resource also provides in-depth analysis of countries GDP across the world. again this resource could be used for business or economics classes, and even personal used to keep up with markets and current events in the business world.

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AVL - Abbi Underwood

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Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

This database provides access to scholarly journals, critical reviews, artist biographies, and multimedia resources across a wide range of fine arts topics including visual art, drama, music, film, and cultural commentary.

Users can explore academic and mainstream articles, interviews, performance critiques, and biographical materials. Built-in tools like citation generators, text-to-speech, translation, and Google Drive integration make it highly accessible and classroom-ready.

Recommended Age Group: High School, College & University, and Adult learners.

As a former theatre teacher and current English Language Arts instructor, I love that this resource makes it easy to incorporate the arts into research-based assignments. In my tutorial, I used it for a cross-curricular project on Lin-Manuel Miranda where students analyzed his impact on storytelling and culture. It’s a fantastic tool for building higher-level research skills while connecting literature to real-world creative expression.

AVL - Ashley Thompson

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I chose to highlight the PBS Learning Media website. I have spent the last couple hours on the website and it has so much to offer. It has learning content for grade pre-k through 12th, it offers professional development for teachers, it offers ready to use lesson plans and so much more. I would use this website as a station in my science/math centers. I feel like it would be a great resource to help deepen the students' understanding of the material being taught, to reinforce what you have already showed them. It also offers online games that the students can play, it is compatible with google classroom so you can just directly link it to the students. I highly recommend this website for use in any grade level. 

AVL Screencast

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I chose Explora: High School as the database I would highlight. I like using it because I can use the course of study guide to help phrase my search in a way that would limit my resources or provide me with the resources that are the most accurate to what I am needing. In the field of science, being able to refine my search to resources that are the most recent is also very helpful. If there are an overwhelming amount of resources, the ones that are the more recent ones are typically the more relevant resources in the realm of science. I also highlighted PBS as a resource, especially for middle school classrooms. I like using PBS as a resource because I can assign the resource in Google Classroom, it also has videos with discussion questions, as well as interactive lesson.