May/June 2025 

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Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers, discover even more features of your resources with our new webinar focused on creating different types of assessments within Gale In Context: For Educators.

April is Financial Literacy Month. Help your students understand topics like inflation, loans and credit, banking, savings, and interest by checking out our financial literacy materials on the Gale Support site.

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month

Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers—each month you’ll have access to a free folder with additional support and information, handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students.

 To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note: This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers.  

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Celebrate and learn about the rich history and diverse contributions of Arab Americans during National Arab American Heritage Month in April. Find activities for your classroom here. Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers, utilize lesson plans for both high school and middle school grade levels.
• April is Financial Literacy Month, a time to promote student understanding of financial education. Utilize the materials on our support site for Financial Literacy Month, or if you have access to Gale In Context: For Educators, check out all 107 lesson plans for financial literacy for second grade (Be an Entrepreneur), eighth grade (Compounding Interest), tenth grade (Annual Rates of Return), eleventh grade (Develop a Budget), and more.  
• What do George Washington’s wooden teeth, Marie Antionette’s quotation “Let them eat cake,” and Napoleon’s short stature have in common? They are part of myths debunked using Gale In Context. Learn more in this blog post.
• Support April’s Poetry Month with cross-curricular lesson plans, such as Exploring Culture Through Poetry: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. Find this and additional lesson plans here, or examine the Bangladesh genocide of 1971 through poetry and politics here, in Gale In Context: For Educators.

ELA UPDATES

• April is National Poetry Month. Use your Gale resources to increase understanding and appreciation of poetry with your students.
  • Looking for poems in your resources? In Advanced Search, scroll to Document Type and select “poem” to find the poems available to you in your Gale resources.
  • Have students utilize Gale Literature: LitFinder to research famous poems and poets using this Scavenger Hunt.
  • Want more poetry support? Check out Gale’s Exploring Poetry publication, which features the full text of 275 of the most studied poems in high school English classes, along with line-by-line explications. Entries also include a biography of the author, a critical overview, and an essay on the poem’s construction. It can be found here in Gale In Context: Literature, here in Gale In Context: High School, or here in Gale In Context: Middle School.
  • Gale In Context: For Educators has over thirty full-length lesson plans supporting the study of poetry. Explore some of them using this folder, or do a basic search for poetry in Gale In Context: For Educators to see them all.

STEAM UPDATES

• Who won the “calculus war,” Isaac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz? Use Gale In Context: For Educators and this lesson plan in which your students will research and decide.
• To read about Gladys West and the creation of GPS, visit this blog post and Gale In Context: Science. Consider having students fill out this blank biographical organizer while reading.
• Nukes in space: good idea or bad idea? Check out this viewpoint essay in Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints to learn more. To continue the discussion, have students find alternative views or conduct research on the topic. Consider having students fill out a CER worksheet to analyze the viewpoint essays.
• Are your students getting enough sleep? Use this lesson plan in Gale In Context: For Educators to study the effects of sleep on teenagers.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Celebrating Poetry Month in April? Use the Parts of Poetry Escape Room combined with Gale In Context: Elementary. If you have access to Gale In Context: For Educators, find everything you need here.
• Find over twelve thousand poems in Gale In Context: Elementary. To see the full list, use Advanced Search and choose the Document Type “poem,” or see them all here. Consider using these poems for morning work or creating a choice board for your students.
• Support Arab American Heritage Month by studying influential Arab Americans using this lesson plan and Gale In Context: Elementary. If you have access to Gale In Context: For Educators, find everything you need in this folder.
• Need help supporting Financial Literacy Month? Watch this 15 Minutes to Mastery recorded webinar “Support Financial Literacy Lessons with Gale In Context: Elementary” to learn more.
• Learn about the history of Easter with Gale In Context: Elementary and this blog post.

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• Want students to understand more about the relationship between people and their natural environment? Check out this NEW Escape Room on human ecology using Gale In Context: Environmental Studies. Have access to Gale In Context: For Educators? Check out this folder with all the resources needed.
• Need help with how to manage artificial intelligence in education? Consider these resources:
  • How can AI assist in the classroom? Check out this two-minute tutorial for some ideas on how to use AI to benefit your Gale resources, or check out the extended version with this fifteen-minute webinar: Unlocking the Power of AI.
  • Check out this blog post on helping students think critically about the use of AI.
  • Keep up with the latest developments in AI with topic overview pages in Gale In Context: Science, Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, Gale In Context: Middle School, or Gale in Context: High School.

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers—each month you’ll have access to a free folder with additional support and information, handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note: This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• March celebrates National Women’s History Month, with March 8 being International Women’s Day. Utilize the following resources to celebrate National Women’s History Month:
  • Use Gale In Context: High School to examine key figures in the Women’s Suffrage Timeline, or if you have Gale In Context: For Educators, find it all here.
  • Find other Women’s History Month activities here, including trading cards, a scavenger hunt, and a lesson plan, or find it all in this Gale In Context: For Educators folder.
  • Want to create your own project? Utilize the following topic overview pages: from Gale In Context: High School, a topic overview page on Women’s History Month; from Gale In Context: Middle School, a topic overview page on women’s rights; from Gale in Context: Global Issues, a topic overview page on women’s rights; and from Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, a topic overview page on women’s rights.
• March 5 marks the anniversary of the Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Utilize your Gale resources to analyze this primary source. Consider using Gale In Context: World History, starting at the topic overview page for the Cold War, or reading a biography on Winston Churchill before tackling the primary source found here. Have access to Gale In Context: For Educators? Utilize the curated resources found in this folder.
• Teaching World War I? Use this lesson plan to evaluate the secret treaties signed prior to World War I with Gale In Context: US History and Gale In Context: World History. Find the resources in Gale In Context: For Educators using this folder.

ELA UPDATES

• Beware the Ides of March—study EXPLORING Shakespeare in both Gale In Context: High School and Gale In Context: Literature to learn why. This publication includes Julius Caesar with line notes, or find the play here using Gale In Context: For Educators.
• March is National Reading Month. Support your students’ reading using Gale In Context: Literature and this activity.
• Update in Gale Literature Resource Center: When using Browse Topics, browse by works to view which works have primary source and historical documents available and which works have the full literary work available with a new selection capability.

STEAM UPDATES

• March is National Nutrition Month. Find a topic overview page on nutrition in Gale In Context: Science.
• Celebrate Women’s History Month by studying women in STEAM. Use this Trading Card Activity to accompany Gale In Context: Science.
• Teaching health classes? Utilize the Subject Guide for health under the high school subject search in Gale In Context: For Educators, or utilize topic overview pages in Gale in Context: Science. Topics include Addiction, Anxiety, Caffeine, Exercise, Mental Health, and so much more.  
• Use Gale In Context: Biography to highlight female inventors, such as Marie Curie, Grace Hopper, Alice H. Parker, and others. Read more in this blog post.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Celebrate Read Across America Week—utilize your Gale eBooks collection to create Choice Boards for student reading. Don’t have Gale eBooks? Consider using some short stories in Gale In Context: Elementary using Advanced Search. If you have Choice Board questions, watch this recorded webinar for some inspiration.
• Use Gale In Context: Elementary to have your students “Meet Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s First Female Doctor.” Find her topic overview page here.
• Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day? Gale In Context: Elementary has a topic overview page dedicated to it. Find it here and combine with this blog post to explore St. Patrick’s Day history and traditions.
• Need a pick-me-up? March 16 is National Panda Day. Check out these pandas using the topic overview page found here in Gale In Context: Elementary. Have Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids? Here are eBooks on red pandas and pandas.   

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• Are your students completing a National History Day project? Use this NEW National History Day Research Activity Packet for help narrowing down a topic and searching within their Gale resources.
• Rock on! Use Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids to understand rock formations and see if your students can escape from our NEW Escape Room.

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers—below is your free folder of the month! You will find additional support and information in the bullets below, handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note: This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• How the Other Half Lives gives a glimpse into immigrant life in the 1890s. Have your students analyze this primary source by Jacob Riis and how it fits into the overall Progressive Era with this lesson plan. Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers, find everything in this folder.
• Use this folder in Gale In Context: For Educators to see full lesson plans from African American History that can be utilized for Black History Month.

ELA UPDATES

• Who was Saint Valentine, and how did Valentine’s traditions start? Gale In Context: High School and this blog post can help you discover these answers and more.
• Searching for love this Valentine’s Day? Use this activity with Gale In Context: Literature to find love in primary sources. Have Gale In Context: For Educators? Use this folder to view the activity with a selection of primary sources students may choose from.
• Go on a blind date with a book. Utilize Gale In Context: Literature to discover how love and friendship are portrayed in literature with this lesson plan.
• Dive further into literature using Gale In Context: Literature. Our suggestion for February: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963.

STEAM UPDATES

• Utilize Gale In Context: US History to learn more about Black mathematicians for Black History Month in this activity: Multiplying Black Achievements.
• Get your middle school students energized to learn with this Escape Room focusing on types of energy and the transfer of energy, with content found in Gale In Context: Science.
• Celebrate Black artists with Gale In Context: Biography using this activity, or use this Gale In Context: For Educators folder to access all the materials needed.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• February 26 is Tell a Fairy Tale Day. Have your students read up on fairy tales by using the Fairy Tale Topic Page, and have them complete the Fairy Tales Scavenger Hunt and the Fairy Tales and Fables lesson plan.
• George Washington’s birthday is February 17. Utilize this Topic Overview Page in Gale In Context: Elementary or use this folder in Gale in Context: For Educators to view lesson plans.

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• Take Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints into the classroom. Check out this Tip Sheet highlighting ways to integrate Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints into your everyday lessons.
• Want to go even further and tackle district alignment and goals using Gale to support curriculum? Consult this blog post: “How to Align Supplemental Resources with District-Wide Goals.”

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers—here is your free folder of the month! In it, you will find a variety of content types, including lesson plans, activities, videos, etc., that were handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students on the subject areas below.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note: This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Covering civil rights post-Civil War? Consider having students compare primary sources from Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois with this lesson plan. If you have Gale In Context: For Educators, access the lesson plan and documents here.
• It has been fifty years since the skeleton “Lucy” was discovered. Read more about the hominid skeleton “Lucy” in Gale In Context: World History and learn why these fossils were important to history with this blog post, or use this Gale In Context: For Educators folder to read the blog along with its corresponding Gale resources.
• One hundred fifty years ago, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed. Use this blog post highlighting content within Gale In Context: U.S. History to discover more about the WCTU. Have Gale In Context: For Educators? Find the resources mentioned within this folder.
• In order to support Holocaust Remembrance Day, be sure to check out the Holocaust Topic Pages in Gale In Context: World History, Gale In Context: Global Issues, Gale In Context: High School, and Gale In Context: Middle School. Need some tips on using Topic Pages? View our tutorial. Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers can access this folder containing lesson plans that examine other genocides in world history.

ELA UPDATES

• This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on January 27. In remembrance, there are two new novel studies on support.gale.com.
  • The first is a work guide covering Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. Click here to utilize Gale In Context: Literature for the work study or here to utilize Gale Literature Resource Center.
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank also has a new novel study. Click here to utilize the novel study with Gale In Context: Literature or here to utilize Gale Literature Resource Center.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day is January 20. Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers, use this lesson plan in Gale In Context: For Educators to analyze his “I Have a Dream” speech.
• Suggested reading for January: Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Find the full document, support material, and essential questions in Gale In Context: Literature.

STEAM UPDATES

• Do esports help develop needed skills in STEAM, such as problem-solving, analytical thinking, and teamwork? This author thinks so! Use this article in Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints to settle the debate with your students. Continue the discussion with the esport topic overview page. Consider having students complete a CER worksheet with the different articles. Find all these materials in this folder if you subscribe to Gale In Context: For Educators.
• The Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry in 2024 were awarded for advances related to the development and use of artificial intelligence. Read more about it in this blog post, including information that can be found in Gale In Context: Science.
• Be prepared for Heart Health Month in February. Utilize Gale Interactive: Science and the Interactive Heart Simulation to understand the anatomy of the heart.  

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Help your students understand the impact of Martin Luther King Jr. Utilize the topic overview page in Gale In Context: Elementary or this lesson plan in Gale In Context: For Educators.
• Preparing for a President’s Day project? Gale In Context: Elementary has topic overview pages for every U.S. president; check out this example on Abraham Lincoln. Let your students tell the stories of the U.S. presidents through their own research.
• Talking with students about Chinese New Year? Share this Topic Page in Gale In Context: Elementary and, if you’re a subscriber, this lesson plan in Gale In Context: For Educators. Students will use what they learn to compare with their own experiences celebrating New Year’s.

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• Help highlight your Gale In Context suite with this brand-new, customizable Student Handout! Librarians or teachers can edit the document to show only information related to their collection and then share it out with their students.
• In honor of Universal Human Rights Month (December) and Human Rights Day (December 10), be sure to highlight the Human Rights topic page in Gale In Context: High School in your classes.
• Are you preparing to train your staff on how to use Gale In Context: For Educators? Make professional development fun with these Bingo and Tic-Tac-Toe activities.
• Administrators and instructional coaches: here are 5 Ways to Keep Teachers Invested in PD This School Year, plus help your new teachers to Lean on Those Digital Resources.

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

Gale In Context: For Educators —here is your free folder of the month! In it, you will find a variety of content types including lesson plans, activities, videos, etc. that were handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students on the subject areas below.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note – This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Did you know that Gale In Context: Elementary and Gale In Context: High School both have state topic pages? These topic pages contain LOTS of goodies that are unique to individual states and provide great supplemental coverage for social studies units about the home state. State flags, seals, maps, and current census numbers are all covered, in addition to information on geography, economics, Native American tribes in the state, and more.
• Coming soon! In December, Gale In Context: US History will have sixty new and updated Asian American and Pacific Islanders entries loaded. Then, in the early part of 2025, the Gale In Context: For Educators Asian American and Pacific Islanders subject topic tree is slated for release.
• Support Ethnic Studies using Gale In Context: Biography! Use the Person Search to highlight marginalized voices in your lesson plans or encourage students to find “windows and mirrors.”
• Help your students personalize history by embracing individualized pathways and oral or local history projects. Read this blog post that was originally published by eSchool News.

ELA UPDATES

• Did you know that Gale In Context: Literature includes an Indigenous literature genre? This is a great go-to for supporting Native American Heritage Month year-round!
• Honor Mark Twain’s birthday (Nov. 30) by bringing Twain to life with Gale. Read how to Invite Mark Twain to Your Classroom.
• Learn how to keep your ELA students engaged with informational texts, media, and other sources with Teaching ELA Beyond the Novel, an article originally published by The Learning Counsel.
• This December, Celebrate the Timeless Tales of Jane Austen in honor of her birthday on December 16. This article highlights how you can use Gale In Context: Literature to make meaningful connections to the classic literature of Austen.

STEAM UPDATES

• Did you know that Gale In Context: For Educators lesson plans are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards? For an example, use the lesson plan search in FE, search on Heredity, and look at the lesson plan “How Are Traits Passed Down in Families?” Click on Standards at the right to see which standards the lesson aligns to.
• Weather: In the aftermath of Helene and Milton, help your students understand Extreme Hurricanes with resources like Gale In Context: Science. Additionally, students can learn more about weather, weather patterns, or changing weather with Gale In Context: Environmental Studies topic pages that include Weather, Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Climate and Weather, Tornadoes, Floods, Wildfire, and Global Warming. You can also use this Weather and Climate 5E Lesson Plan.
• Universal Health Care continues to be at the forefront, particularly during a presidential election year. Read how students can Research All Sides of the Universal Healthcare Debate using Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, and find some key critical-thinking questions to spark their research.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Have you checked out the Art and Artists subtopics in Gale In Context: Elementary lately? They include a fairly new and extensive set of content, which can sometimes be hard to find at the elementary level.
• Whether it’s a news article or one of your eBooks, help support reading efforts by using the Listen feature in Gale In Context: Elementary. Just click the purple icon to hear the content read aloud.
• Do you want to introduce Gale In Context: Elementary to parents or teachers? Use these short tutorial videos: Welcome to Gale In Context: Elementary and Explore the World Around You with Gale In Context: Elementary. There is also this Gale In Context: Elementary Student Handout.
• With winter holidays approaching, be sure to check out the Social Studies subtopic World Holidays in Gale In Context: Elementary.

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• Looking for curriculum support for the 2024 Election? Check out your Gale resources!
  • Read about 4 Ways to Use the Election to Teach Durable Skills, an article published in District Administration magazine and contributed to from Gale’s own Cynda Wood. Cynda discusses techniques teachers can use to avoid opinion, encourage civil debate, and inspire social responsibility when teaching students about the U.S. election in the classroom. She gives four ways teachers can use it as an opportunity to teach students essential durable skills such as critical thinking, research, and digital literacy.
  • Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints has a new topic page titled “Presidential Election of 2024.”
• Support Dia De Los Muertos with these activities that are available in both English AND Spanish!
• Digital accessibility is a necessity in every classroom. Learn how to Empower Every Learner With Accessibility and your Gale resources.

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

Gale In Context: For Educators —here is your free folder of the month! In it, you will find a variety of content types including lesson plans, activities, videos, etc. that were handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students on the subject areas below.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note – This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• The Federal Reserve has recently made its first interest rate change in nearly four years. Use your Gale resources to discover the impact of this decision and how it affects your learners, and explore more about the role of the Federal Reserve. 
  With regularly updated articles, you can gain the freshest insights, such as in this link to Loans and Credit activity. 
  • ​​​​​​​Gale In Context: For Educators users—be sure to check out the free folder listed above for some financial literacy content, including lesson plans.
• In addition to Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints for Presidential Election curriculum support, don’t miss the two topic pages in Gale In Context: Global IssuesElection Interference and Elections and Voters’ Rights.
• Did you know that users have the ability to do an advanced search in Gale In Context: Biography and select ethnicity or occupation?

ELA UPDATES

• Celebrate spooky season with your Gale resources! Check out these new ELA activities for Elementary, Middle School, and High School.
• Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: A Tale of Darkness and Creation. Delve into Mary Shelley’s life and examine Frankenstein’s enduring legacy with help from Gale Literature Resource Center. (Side note: Don’t forget to search Gale In Context: Middle School, Gale In Context: High School, and Gale In Context: Literature for additional content supporting Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.)
• Immerse yourself in Native American Heritage Month (November) with Native Authors. Utilize Gale's advanced search features in Gale Literature Resource Center to explore works by Native American authors. This empowers students to have a greater voice and choice, enabling them to select a Native author to delve deeper into and gain a unique perspective by stepping into the author's shoes.
• Do your student "stan" TikTok? Use Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoint’s new TikTok topic page to lead them to a variety of perspectives and facts. And check out this TikTok CER activity.

STEAM UPDATES

• Help your students Understand the Importance of Pollution Prevention. Some activities that could be used with this include Alternative Energy Tic Tac Toe; Alternative Energy Trading Cards; and Alternative and Renewable Energy Scavenger Hunt.
• Is your school hosting or participating in a science fair this year and looking for student support? Check out the Interactive Simulations and Experiments activities in Gale In Context: Science. Use these tip sheets to quickly access the Simulations content and Experiments content within the database.
• November is Native American Heritage Month. Art teachers will want to check out Native American art in the Gale In Context resources like Elementary, Middle School, and High School.  

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Celebrate spooky season with this new ELA activity for Gale In Context: Elementary.
• Send your students on a scavenger hunt in Gale In Context: Elementary to learn about life cycles.
• Capture the imagination of young learners with fables and fairy tales in this lesson. Students will utilize Gale In Context: Elementary to explore and identify the defining traits of fables and fairy tales. Through this interactive experience, they will have the opportunity to compare and contrast these two distinct story types. Get ready to enchant your learners.

CONTENT SPOTLIGHT

What’s new in Gale to help kick off the school year?

• Gale In Context: For Educators
  • Over 450 lesson plans across K–12 have been added in 2024, bringing a new grand total of over 1,400 lessons.
  • New high school subject search areas for social studies: African American Studies and Latin American Studies, each containing eight units of study.
• Gale In Context: Literature: New content and functionality continue to be added, plus some new Topic Pages on popular literary works and authors.
  • Gale In Context suite—ReadSpeaker updates have resulted in faster load times for reading articles.
  • The translation tool now features four new languages including Lao, Punjabi, Tamil, and Maori.

Also, artificial intelligence has been at the forefront recently, particularly in how it is and will be used in education. Are you familiar with AI hallucinations? Learn more about them in this new Gale blog post, AI Hallucinations and Other Erratic Behaviors.

Featured For Educators Folder of the Month

Gale In Context: For Educators: Here is your free folder of the month! In it, you will find a variety of content types including lesson plans, activities, videos, etc. that were handpicked by Gale staff to help support you and your students.

To view, open Gale In Context: For Educators first and then click on this link. Note: This folder is available only to current Gale In Context: For Educators subscribers.

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• It’s been 50 years since Watergate. Help your students reflect on Watergate and President Nixon’s legacy with Gale.
• Did you know the African American Studies subject tree in Gale In Context: For Educators is composed of eight units, including African History Prior to 1619, Civil Rights Era, and Contemporary Milestones and Challenges? Latin American Studies also has eight units, from Mesoamerican Civilizations (1500 BCE–1492) and Latin American and US Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century to Immigration in the 20th Century and Beyond.
• On October 14, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in your K-12 classroom.

ELA UPDATES

• What are some fun ways ELA teachers can engage with students and motivate them to write? Gale’s own Hannah Roudebush provides some great advice and best practices in this Teaching to Transform podcast with Melissa C. Morrison.
• Engage your students in Banned Books Week this September 22–28 with Gale! Using our support site materials, have students complete a book review, participate in an online scavenger hunt, or even use our pre-made folder in Gale In Context: For Educators. Plus, be sure to check out an all-new Topic Page in Gale In Context: Global Issues on Book Banning.
• What’s new in Gale In Context: Literature?
  • More than 20 new Topic Pages, including works like Dracula, Braiding Sweetgrass, and Firekeeper’s Daughter; Author pages on Rig Veda, Colson Whitehead, and Louise Erdrich.
  • New featured videos on literary terms pages, like Imagery. (Check them out in this month’s For Educators folder!)
  • And what’s coming soon? Be on the lookout for new Topic Pages for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Truman Capote, and In the Time of the Butterflies.

STEAM UPDATES

• The world of science certainly has its share of controversy. Be sure to include Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints in your science curriculum toolbox, where you can find over 20,000 different perspectives around complicated issues like space travel. Read how to debate the complexities of space exploration in your classroom.
• Physics teachers!!! Gale Interactive: Science added new Physics Interactives.
• Math teachers!!! Are you looking for statistics or charts/graphs to use with students? Go into For Educators and click into Advanced Search, scroll down to Content type, click the Statistics box, then click Search. You can then filter your results to find the most recent content.
• Gale In Context: Biography includes some new Topic Pages on scientists like astronomer Annie Jump Cannon and immunologist and recent Nobel Prize winner Drew Weissman.
• Gale In Context: Science includes a new Topic Page on Cicadas to highlight the bumper crop that will emerge this year.
  • Updated Topic Pages include astronomy topics like Eclipse, Sun, and Planets and Dwarf Planets; technology topics like Artificial Intelligence and Stem Cells; and health topics like Nervous System and Cystic Fibrosis.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• With Lee Isaac Chung’s recent release of Twisters (the sequel to Jan de Bont’s original Twister in 1996), there’s a renewed interest in nature’s extreme weather. Use Gale to help students unravel twisters’ mysteries in your elementary classroom.
• Have you checked out the News tab in Gale In Context: Elementary? Stay up-to-date on current events, popular holidays, and even a few you may not have heard of in this tab that’s updated monthly!
• Media Literacy Week will be here before you know it! Keep this Media Literacy Activity Packet in your curriculum toolbox!

CONTENT SPOTLIGHT

Start the year off right with Gale! Whether it’s research projects or curriculum supplemental material, get back to school with Gale In Context and Gale In Context: For Educators. Also, learn some best practices for incorporating Gale content into your classroom on this Build Better Lessons Gale recorded webinar.

Don’t miss these brand-new lesson plans found in Gale In Context: For Educators. To access, log into For Educators and type the name of the lesson plan in the search bar:

• Analyzing a Primary Source
• How Does This Impact That?
• How to Craft a Historical Question 
• Making Your Point 
• Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
• The Importance of Thorough Research

Featured Gale In Context: For Educators Folder of the Month:

COMING SOON! Starting in September, we will be providing a free Gale In Context: For Educators folder each month. Don’t miss out on this nugget of goodies!

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Looking for curriculum support for the upcoming presidential election? Coming in late September, Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints will launch a dedicated topic page, “Presidential Election of 2024,” including such topics as campaign issues, voting processes, and the significance of elections in a democratic society.
  • Looking for more? In Gale In Context: For Educators, visit the Subject browse tool for Social Studies by grade level for content on Voting, Political Parties, Democracy, Origins of American Government, Campaign Financing, Politics and the Media, and much more!
• Support Hispanic Heritage Month with these ideas.
• Are you planning for the national debate topic of Intellectual Property Rights? Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the resource for you! Go to Browse Issues and click on “2024-2025 National Debate Topic (Intellectual Property Rights.)”
• Secondary History teachers, did you know you have access to a De Las Casas Primary Source and topic pages for Christopher Columbus and Human Origins in Africa?

ELA UPDATES

• Don’t miss this Teaching Learning Leading K-12 Podcast, where our very own Gale training consultant Hannah Roudebush shares best practices and tips on how educators can connect their ELA classes to the interests and lives of their students.
• What are some ways educators can create an ELA curriculum that keeps students engaged, beyond just teaching novels? Former ELA teacher and Gale Training Consultant, Hannah Roudebush, gives some great advice and discusses incorporating informational texts, primary sources, historical context, current events, and real-world issues alongside novel studies in this article published in The Learning Counsel.
• Learn how to curate digital content from your Gale resources to create text sets and support research projects with this 30-min webinar. 

STEAM UPDATES

• September is National Honey Month! Check out the lesson plan and scavenger hunt using Gale In Context: Environmental Studies to help support your curriculum!
• Are you searching for interactive simulations to use in the classroom to help bring concepts to life? Learn how to find them in Gale In Context: Science with this tip sheet.
• Use Gale resources to help supplement your classroom and build literacy skills with these bellringer ideas.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Explore how to effectively use Gale In Context: Elementary in line with the science of reading principles, specifically fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants will explore how Gale can support evidence-based instructional practices and enhance students' reading comprehension and literacy skills through research and learning tools, including translation, listen, highlights and notes, and more. Build Strong Readers- Integrate the Science of Reading with Gale In Context: Elementary
• Help get your students familiar with Gale In Context: Elementary with this fun Solar System Trading Card Activity.
• Honey fun isn’t just for the upper grade levels! Check out the Gale In Context: Elementary lesson plan and scavenger hunt to support National Honey Month in September!

CONTENT SPOTLIGHT

New this month! Engage your students in Claim, Evidence, Reasoning writing with our Innovation and Global Impact Activity utilizing Gale In Context: Global Issues.

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Prepare for Pride Month with curated Gale In Context: High School Topic Pages and a complete Escape Room Activity.
• What do your students know about Bitcoin? Empower them to learn about digital currency with Gale In Context: Middle School. Check our Blog Post.
• How did cars change U.S. culture in the 1920s? Find out with Gale In Context: U.S. History and our Blog Post.

ELA UPDATES

• Practice Lateral Reading with our Gale In Context: High School Lateral Reading Activity.
• Gale In Context: For Educators can help you curate subject-area text sets. Learn how!
• Read how one high school ELA teacher is making Gale In Context: Literature their go to resource for engaging students.

STEAM UPDATES

• Celebrate World Environment Day and World Oceans Day with these Gale In Context Activities.
• Teaching weather and climate? Check out our 5E Lesson Plan for Gale In Context: Environmental Studies.
• Discover Interactive Simulations within Gale In Context: Science using our Tip Sheet.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• Leverage Gale to avoid interrupted learning. Check out our summer activities and support here.
• Teach about the science of summertime with Gale In Context: Elementary - explore our Blog Post.
• Support National Inventors Month instruction with our Themed Materials including a Research Project, Tarsia Puzzle, and Escape Room.

CONTENT SPOTLIGHT

What is going on with TikTok? Is the government overstepping? What are the chances of a total ban? Help students understand this complicated current event with our TikTok Ban CER Lesson Plan.

SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES

• Start prepping for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with our pre-made Activities.
• Can social studies teachers use Gale to help students personalize history? Gale’s Heather Bassett and Cynda Wood explain how in this eSchool News Article.
• Help your students better understand mental health with our Mental Health Awareness Materials.

ELA UPDATES

• Ready to compare Gale and Google side by side? Check out our blog post: Gale Vs. Google: See Who Wins in your Classroom.
• Looking to incorporate our Advanced Search capabilities into your learning community? Our Advanced Search Tip Sheet can give you some pointers.
• Gale is here to support your Media Literacy curriculum. Get the word out with this Media Literacy Flyer.

STEAM UPDATES

• What are estuaries? Why should students care? Utilize our new Estuaries Topic Page within Gale In Context: Environmental Studies to find out.
• May is National Inventors Month. Help your students learn more about famous inventors and their inventions with our Themed Materials.
• Teach your Middle Schoolers about what they can do in the fields of science and technology with our Science and Technology Careers Lesson Plan.

ELEMENTARY UPDATES

• This Arab American Heritage Month, teach about influential Arab American figures with Gale In Context: Elementary. View the activity here.
• Emotions are hard, but Gale In Context: Elementary can help students figure them out! Utilize our Emotions KWL Activity to get started.
• Help your students develop their search skills with our Searching Skills Scavenger hunt!