General Resources (all grades)
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Keyword Generator
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This interactive tool from UCONN will help you think through key ideas and search terms to help with your research.
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2026 TRIP Calendar
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Noodle Tools
Use this for your citations, note cards, and outline.
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TRIP Creative Project Rubric
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Grades 7/8
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Britannica School
General reference resource for multiple age groups.
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Gale in Context: Middle School
Created for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines Gale reference content with age-appropriate videos, periodicals, primary sources, and more
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Newsela ELA
This database provides news articles at various reading levels.
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News-O-Matic
This database provides news articles at various reading levels.
Grades 9/10
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Britannica Academic
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Sooth.fyi
Sooth is a curated search engine optimized for
students and knowledge professionals.
We’ve built a proprietary search index comprised solely of
expert content from across the web covering a range of
important global topics. Accelerate your knowledge search.
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Gale PowerSearch
Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.
Grades 11/12
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JSTOR Secondary Schools Collection
An online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources. Participating K-12 schools gain access to all of the archival journal content (~2,000 academic journals in more than 60 disciplines) and JSTOR's primary source collections (JSTOR Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, African World Heritage Sites). Detailed descriptions of these collections are below.
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Sooth.fyi
Sooth is a curated search engine optimized for
students and knowledge professionals.
We’ve built a proprietary search index comprised solely of
expert content from across the web covering a range of
important global topics. Accelerate your knowledge search.
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Gale PowerSearch
Search newspapers, business journals and health journals.
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Gale: Opposing Viewpoints
Facts and arguments on current events topics and social issues.