Research in Context

logo for Gale Research in ContextDiscover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues.  Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.Designed for middle school students, this POWER Library e-resource provides full text access to popular magazines, thousands of biographies and historical essays, and an image collection with over 960,000 photos, maps, and flags. All articles included in the resource are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Topics include:

  • Science & health
  • History
  • Geography
  • Current Events
  • Sports

This online resource is a part of the POWER Library collection.

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POWER Library is made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Library Access funds administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries. The views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services or the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The Power Library portal is available at https://powerlibrary.org/