Rompies+Current+Issues


 * I. ONLINE DATABASES**
 * **INFOhio Online Databases**
 * Go to www.infohio.org, click on **Resources for Grades 9-12**. Choose "NewsBank" or "EBSCOhost."
 * If you are asked for a username and password, emailMrs. Walker, text her at (513) 202-4802, or complete this online form @http://www.infohio.org/er/unpwrequestform.aspand it will be emailed to you.
 * NewsBank(articles from local, regional, and national newspapers)
 * In the blue box on the left, click on "Hot Topics" under **Current Events**.
 * Also check out the topics under **Special Reports** for a comprehensive look at ongoing hot topics.
 * EBSCOhost(articles from magazines, newspapers, books, and encyclopedias; biographies; radio and TV news transcripts; primary source documents; and photographs)
 * Click on "Student Research Center Grades 9-12"
 * Check out the **Top Searches** box on the left...
 * ...OR enter your search terms in the search box. If you have a phrase that you want to keep together (for example, the Iraq War), put quotation marks around the phrase so that the results only show articles about the Iraq War, not everything about Iraq and everything about war.


 * **Cincinnati Public Library Research Databases**
 * Go to www.cincinnatilibrary.org, click on "Research & Homework," then click on "Research Databases." Choose "Current Events."
 * When asked for a username and password, use the one on the assignment handout, emailMrs. Walker, or text her at (513) 202-4802.
 * Current Events
 * **Opposing Viewpoints in Context** (explore both sides of a wide range of important social issues)
 * Click on "View All" to see topics in categories such as Business & Economics; Health & Medicine; Society & Culture; Energy & Environmentalism; Law & Politics; Science, Technology & Ethics; War & Diplomacy.
 * Explore topics within the categories or use the search box.


 * II. WEBSITES**
 * **Current Events**
 * Hot Paper Topics (alphabetical list of some hot topics)
 * Social Issues (alphabetical list of social issues, presenting multiple perspectives)
 * Debatabase (arguments for and against hundreds of topics, written by expert debaters, judges and coaches)
 * Pro-Con (promoting informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a simple, nonpartisan pro-con format)
 * Mobile Apps: News & Current Events (get the latest news & current event coverage for your smart phones/iPods)
 * Time Magazine (breaking news, analysis, politics, photographs, etc.)
 * CNN (breaking news in the U.S. and the world)
 * USA Today (news from the U.S. and the world)
 * The Economist (world news, politics, economics, business and finance)
 * MSNBC (breaking news, science and tech news, world news, U.S. news, local news)


 * III. BOOKS**
 * There are books on a variety of topics spread throughout the library.
 * Use the online catalog computers to find books in **our library** (@http://sirsi.hccanet.org/opac/FT/FTHS/)