Practice Using Gale Student Resources In Context
About the Database
1. Gale Student Resources in Context is useful for research for __________ subject in school.
2. To find information you can either ______________________ or ______________________.
3. Browsing by topic results in a ______________________ page.
4. This data base returns information from ______________________ books, _____________________ ,
______________________ and ______________________ articles, and ______________________ ,
______________________ , and ______________________ multimedia files.
5. Circle one: True or False? You can listen to an audio file that reads each article, share an article on
Facebook, and translate the article into Spanish or eight other languages.
Browsing the Database by Topics
On the Home Page, choose Endangered Species under the category Science. From the overview article at the
top of the page, complete the following sentence…
1. Extinct species no longer exist ______________ on Earth, and once gone they are gone ______________.
2. The featured video is from this morning TV show: _____________________________________________
In featured images, there are photographs of these two animals…
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________
List three related topics to extend your research…
4. _________________________
5. _________________________
6. _________________________
In the Reference bucket, the 2008 article on Extinction is from this reference book…
7. ______________________________________________________________________________________
8. Click on the article title. Fill in the missing blanks in the citation to this article below…
"__________________." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed.
____________: Gale, ____________. Gale Student Resources In Context. ____________. _________________.
In the News bucket, the article about the California Bay Delta is from this newspaper…
9. ______________________________________________________________________________________
In the Magazines bucket, the article about Florida panthers is from this date…
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________
In the Websites bucket, there are web pages about these two animals…
11. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Click the Home button.
Searching the Database by Keyword
Above the search box, click on Primary Sources. Make sure the search button changes to Search Primary
Sources, as shown above. Type “boston massacre” into the text box and click the Search Primary Sources
button.
Click on the link to “Eyewitness Account of the Boston Massacre, 1770” from DISCovering U.S. History, 2003. Fill
in the blanks below from the document.
On Monday Evening the 5th current, a few Minutes after 9 O'Clock a most horrid ___________
was committed in ___________ Street before the Customhouse Door by 8 or 9 ___________
under the Command of Capt Thos ___________ drawn of from the Main Guard on the South
side of the Townhouse.
Above the search box, click on Images. Make sure the search button changes to Search Images. Type “roman
architecture” into the text box and click the Search Images button. Click on pictures for more information.
12. The photograph of the Roman bath is from __________________ , England.
13. Segovia, Spain, has an ancient Roman __________________ .
14. Santi Luca e Martina Church in Rome is in __________________ Forum.
15. The ancient Library of Celsus is in __________________ , Turkey.
My Name: _________________________________________________________________________________