Research Guides: Math Education Resources: Online Lesson Plans & More

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Instructional Material Databases

Looking for instructional materials? Check out these databases! Each contains some instructional material including lesson plans, reading guides, author interviews, or grade-level appropriate magazines or reading selections.

TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window Multimedia content to complement children's and young adult books, including thousands of educational resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in both the K-12 and children's/youth program environments. Designed to be used by K-12 teachers, librarians, students, families -- anyone using children's and youth books. Includes Spanish-language resources.
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Gale in Context: Elementary Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, geography, science and more—all in one place.
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National Geographic Kids Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.
Gale in Context: Middle School Made specifically for middle schoolers, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
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Gale in Context: High School Provides grades 9–12 with standards-aligned content to help with papers, projects, and presentations, while empowering critical thinking and information literacy skills.
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Gale OneFile: High School Edition Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

Gale Ebooks (*formerly* Gale Virtual Reference Library - GVRL) This link opens in a new window Contains reference materials and books for use by elementary and middle grade students, in addition adults.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window Provides full text for popular magazines for elementary school research. Articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily.
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Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window Provides full text for popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains biographies, primary-source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
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MAS Complete This link opens in a new window Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Periodicals contained in MAS Complete cover a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to high-school students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more. It also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
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TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains articles from diverse sources, including many in full text.
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Vocational & Career Collection This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage of trade and industry-related periodicals. Designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public.
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Texas Reference Center This link opens in a new window Texas history, diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business, etc. Books, journals, biographies of famous historical and contemporary Texans. Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas, with Texas and national news coverage.
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Note on TexShare

Provided through the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, TexShare is a consortium of Texas libraries that have joined together to share electronic and print materials.

TexShare Databases
Red and blue Texas icons indicate a database provided by the TexShare program. Each are accessible through participating academic and public libraries.
Request a TexShare Card
SHSU students, faculty, and staff can request a TexShare card here to borrow items from participating academic and public libraries.
Find a TexShare Library
Find a participating academic or public library here.