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Find Resources to Match Your Curriculum With

Explore

ABC-CLIO’s online databases integrate two methods for quickly finding resources related to commonly taught

topics.

? The

Explore

section of each database offers a set of collected, authoritative resources—articles, primary

source materials, and teaching ideas—to support common instructional topics

? The

Correlations

tools in the Staff Edition take you directly to resources that match an objective in your

state’s current social studies curriculum or a unit and chapter in a state-approved textbook

What’s in Explore?

The Explore section in each database is organized by types of topics that correspond to each database’s content.

Eras

—

American History, World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras,

World History: The Modern Era

Topics

—

American Government

Countries

—

World Geography: Understanding a Changing World

States

—

United States Geography

Issues

—

Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

Wars

—

United States at War

For example, in

American History

, there are 34 distinct Eras on

commonly taught topics such as Westward Expansion, the Great

Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and Post-Watergate America.

An

Overview

for each era, topic, country, state, issue, and war includes

an Overview essay. The Overview essay page offers links to more in-

depth information, which may include facts and figures, primary sources,

and teacher support such as activities and discussion questions.

Let’s Get Started!

Click the

Explore

section link on the home page of any of ABC-CLIO’s online databases.

? Click on a title to go to a topic’s

Overview

page

? Embedded links define and clarify terms and provide additional information

To use the

Correlations

tool:

? Log into the Staff Edition using the Staff Edition username and password you get from your librarian or by

calling 1-800-368-6868

? Go to the Tools tab in the Staff Edition of any database and choose

Academic Standard

or

Textbook

under

Correlations

from the box on the left

? Choose your state, subject, and grade level, or publisher, textbook, and chapter/section from the

pull-down menus and click the

SUBMIT

box

? Select your choices and click the SUBMIT box at the bottom of the page to generate a list of topics that

matches your selection criteria

? From your results list, click on a title to go to the

Overview

page

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ABC-CLIO, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite C, Santa Barbara, California 93117-5505 U.S.A.

Telephone

: (805) 968-1911

Fax

: (805) 685-9685

Website

: www.abc-clio.com

SANTA BARBARA

?

DENVER

?

OXFORD

Build Lessons around a Topic Overview

? Save time by assigning students selected readings or a complete lesson to begin a unit of study.

Remember, every

Explore

topic offers an Overview, Related Links, and links to primary sources. Many

also include Activities, and/or Discussion Questions

? All lessons are

flexible

and

scalable

. Have your students read through the material and complete the

Activity and/or Discussion questions independently, in groups, or as a class activity

For additional support for effective educational use of ABC-CLIO’s online databases, visit

www.abc-clio.com/SchoolResources