Explore the Gale In Context resources created to support student research skills development.
Over 300 topic pages provide content that supports curriculum for English language arts, social studies, and science.
Accommodate learners with on-demand article translation into 50 languages and ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology into more than 20 languages.
 | Gale In Context: Middle School - Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more. |
 | Gale In Context: Environmental Studies - Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. |
 | Gale In Context: Canada - Explore a broad range of Canadian perspectives of topics, people, places, and events through topic overviews, news, and multimedia content |
 | Gale In Context: Science - Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more. |
How do I access the tool?
No sign in is required at school.
From home, when prompted, choose to log in with Google, and choose your @gapps.yrdsb.ca email to authenticate. Ensure you are logged into Google Chrome with your YRDSB Gapps account. Or use the password provided by your teacher.
Tips for using the tool
- Browse by subject headings and subheadings to reach a topic page.
- Topic pages will help students expand and narrow their search topics.
- Choose articles that meet your reading level.
- Copy and paste the built-in citation to build your bibliography / work cited page.
- Use translation tools, listen to the article read to you.
- Change the font style that best meets your needs. Open dyslexic available.
Video resources
- Find short video tutorials on the landing page for all Gale In Context databases.
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