Every year when I barely had a budget I thought about cancelling Culturegrams, and every year I picked it up again.  It was a database the students didn't need "overencouragement" to use.  And we used it with social studies, English, culinary, and world language classes--as well as for an introduction to how very focused databases work.  If you can scrape together the subscription fee, do.  If you can't afford it through the library account,  talk it up with the other departments who would utilize it and see if they have any funds.  Culturegrams is a lot of well-organized information for a very modest price.  And no, they're not paying me to say that.

Cathy Andronik
Brien McMahon HS (Retired)
On Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 07:55:10 pm GMT-4, Loretta Sullivan <b59lgian@mpspride.org> wrote:


Hello,

I have a teacher looking for free online resources for a research assignment for her 6th graders.  Students will be looking at different aspects of culture, general information about the region and its people.  Some students wanted to research African Americans - but she was concerned that all they/she found were negative aspects of the history, slavery, etc.  She was wondering if there were good sites to find aspects of culture not necessarily slavery - perhaps something more modern.

She was looking for Culture Grams, but we do not have a subscription.  Any thoughts as to what I can suggest?  We found The World Factbook - CIA, but wanted other suggestions.  Thanks so much!

Respectfully,

Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Bennet Academy
Manchester, CT

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