Auto Repair Source offers a user-friendly search experience and access to a wealth of information to help users diagnose, repair and maintain today's complex vehicles.
Business Source Elite offers full-text journals, along with abstracted and indexed journals. It includes a selection of business and management topics: accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing and sales.
Comprehensive bibliographic full text reference and Canadian current events.
Canadian Major Dailies provides access to current content and backfiles from over 24 of Canada’s top national and regional newspapers.
Canadian Points of View Reference Source contains 185 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.
The Canadian Reference Centre includes English and French full-text biographies, reference materials and an image collection. This database is a great choice for students who want to keep up with current events.
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the grade 6 math unit on data analysis and probability.
Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 6 Blended Learning Math - Unit 7.0: Data Analysis and Probability - Introduction.
The first video in our database lesson, part of the Introduction to Computer series.
This video looks at the basics of databases. We define database, as well as key terms to know.
Database Management Systems is the software that allows us to create and use a database. This video looks at the DBMS, their functions, some examples of popular software solutions and a quick look at Structured Query Language (SQL)
The database management software is the program used to create and mange the database. The database model is the architecture the DBMS used to store objects within that database.
Our final database video. This one looks at some odds and ends. We examine: Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Big Data. I also talk about the ethics of data mining from the NSA and CDC, and how they are different.
We also give out top picks for the lesson.
Links from Video:
•http://www.w3schools.com/sql/
•What is Database & SQL by Guru99 http://youtu.be/FR4QIeZaPeM
•What is a database http://youtu.be/t8jgX1f8kc4
•MySQL Database For Beginners https://www.udemy.com/mysql-database-for-beginners2/
Encyclopedia Britannica Online is a fact-checked online encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, and videos. Students from Prekindergarten to Grade 12 can access age-appropriate, trustworthy content.
The Explora database for schools and public libraries provides a reliable source of information to complete homework and research projects and deliver robust school curricula.
Gale Academic OneFile Select is a cross-disciplinary research database (science, literature, history, etc.). Students can search over 5,000 journals, magazines and newspapers. The database also includes multimedia content.
General OneFile is a cross-disciplinary research database (science, literature, history, etc.). Access to more than 14,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources, along with over 163,000 images, 6,400 audio files, and 1.3 million videos.
High School Edition is designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
Gale Health and Wellness offers access to medical journals, magazines, reference works and multimedia. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Gale in Context: Elementary is a research database for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students. This resource is a credible, reliable and ad-free information source. Students, teachers and parents will find age-appropriate videos, images, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles on popular topics.
Gale in Context: Middle School is a research database for Grade 6 - Grade 8 students. This resource is a credible, reliable and ad-free information source. Students, teachers and parents will find age-appropriate videos, images, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles on popular topics.
This cross-searchable environment brings together Gale’s premier literary databases to allow users to search across a library’s resources (Gale Literature Resources Center, Scribner Writer Series and Twayne's Author Series) to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.