Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
OFFER COMPREHENSIVE CONTENT
Connect student researchers with hundreds of topic pages featuring articles, case studies, statistics, and images from national and global publications. Contextual content enables students to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities with an informed perspective.
FOSTER STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies allows users to navigate subject, event, and state and province topic pages, drawing students into the subject matter and covering relevant categories including earth systems, climate variability, food security, legislation, and land and water use.
INSPIRE CURIOSITY
Encourage student inquiry and independent exploration into environmental studies with confidence. Coverage of hot topics like environmental legislation, pollution, global change, sustainability, and natural disasters sparks wonder and prepares young citizens for their roles in a changing world.
NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
A similar user experience for all Gale products allows users to spend more time with content and less time learning navigation tools. Tools like Topic Finder and Related Pages stimulate student curiosity and offer a launching point for their research.
SUPPORT INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies content supports students and researchers interested in environmental and sustainability issues across science, social studies, and the humanities.
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Provide an Accessible, Efficient Platform
PLATFORM TOOLS
Accommodate learners with on-demand article translation into 50 languages and ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology into more than 20 languages.
CITATION TOOLS
Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard style citations are supported. Formatted citations can be easily imported from single or multiple documents to services like EasyBib or NoodleTools.
HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES
Organize, save, and share highlights and annotations within content.
SEARCH FUNCTIONS
Researchers can search by Lexile range or find content based on basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of complexity
MASTER WORKFLOW
Expand access and increase discovery by integrating Gale resources into your learning management system. Add to that the power of Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools, which enable users to easily share, save, and download content— including highlights and notes.
PART OF THE AWARD-WINNING GALE IN CONTEXT SUITE
The Gale In Context suite of student databases meets the needs of today’s learners with a user-friendly, mobile-responsive design. Eye-catching, engaging, topical resources provide current, authoritative, media-rich content that seamlessly integrates with curriculum-aligned materials that span core subject areas.
GET THE MOST VALUE OUT OF YOUR INVESTMENT
Gale In Context: For Educators gives teachers the power to amplify the rich content within Gale In Context: Biography in their classrooms.
When used in conjunction with For Educators, teachers can:
- Access prebuilt lesson plans for resources with differentiation tools and quizzes to check for student understanding.
- Use curation tools to collect a variety of resources into lesson folders, making it easier to pair Gale In Context: Biography content with other contextual Gale content or outside materials and links that might be useful.
- Customize assignments to embed instructions, writing prom
FEATURED TESTIMONIAL
"Quick access to high-quality, current online information is key for environmental science educators. With the Gale In Context interface, Environmental Studies is a useful tool for educators."
- AP Environmental Science Teacher
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Additional Details
subjects covered
- Humanities & Social Sciences
- Environmental Science
Platform Features & Tools
Translation Tools
ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology, and on-demand text translation into over 50 languages.
Workflow Tools
Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes. Learn More
Citation Tools
Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, formatted citations can be easily imported from single or multiple documents to services like EasyBib or NoodleTools. MLA-, APA-, and Chicago-style citations are supported.
Reviews & Testimonials
"With a vast array of content and features that will meet the needs of a wide range of users, from students to researchers and professional, Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (formerly known as GREENR) is recommended for academic and large public libraries."
"Students working on environmental, natural resources, and energy issues will find a mother lode of information in this media-rich database. This attractive, informative site, available to numerous users simultaneously, enables students in science, social studies, health, and even career studies, to produce reports using current information carefully targeted to their interests. Recommended."
