This was created for a staff development for my faculty. DISCUS is a collection of databases for South Carolina citizens.

1. DISCUS and Discovery Education: Two Valuable Tools for Enhancing Learning Fran Bullington Jan. 14, 2010

2. What is DISCUS? Digital Information for South Carolina Users DISCUS is a collection of databases provided by funding from the South Carolina General Assembly and overseen by the South Carolina State Library.

3. Why DISCUS? The primary goal of the DISCUS program has been to ensure equity of access to a core collection of electronic information resources for everyone in South Carolina.

4. DISCUS Home Page (www.scdiscus.org)

5. Professional Use: Expanded Academic ASAP

6. Browse Publications

7. Read Your Professional Journals Online (for free!) The Science Teacher (The National Science Teacher Association’s journal for secondary science teachers) Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies journal) American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers)

8. More Professional Journals Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (International Reading Association journal) Some professional journals are indexed in Expanded Academic ASAP, but you will have to find the full text elsewhere. We carry the print copies of English Journal and Mathematics Teacher which are indexed in the database.

9. Find One Professional Journal of Interest to YOU

10. Return to the DISCUS Home Page

11. Classroom Use: Britannica Online School Edition This Day in History Top News Stories N.Y. Times B.B.C. Lesson Plans & Activities

12. Mathematics: Statistics

13. Science: Chemistry

14. Language Arts: Literary Genres

15. Find One Lesson Plan or Activity YOU Could Use

16. Return to the DISCUS Home Page

17. Gale Virtual Reference Library

18. Click on the “+” Sign Preceding a Subject to View Available Books

19. Find an Ebook in the Gale Virtual Library that Might Be Useful to YOU

20. Return to the DISCUS Home Page

21. Educator’s Reference Complete

22. Lesson Plans, Classroom Management, Critical Thinking and More

23. Questions about DISCUS?

24. Discovery Educationwww.discoveryeducation.com

25. Access StreamlineSC

26. Teacher Center

27. STEM Connect: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

28. Discovery Atlas Interactive Map

29. Thematic Focus: Check the Archive for Lessons and Activities

30. Lesson Plan Library

31. Choose STEM, the Atlas Discovery Map, Thematic Focus, or Lesson Plan Library

32. Return to SC Streamline Home Page

33. My Builder Tools

34. Assignment Builder

35. Quiz Builder

36. Writing Prompt Builder

37. Videos: Search Options

38. Citations Discovery Education. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com>.12 Jan. 2010. SC DISCUS. < http://scdiscus.org> . 12 Jan. 2010. South Carolina Map. <http://www.barbsnow.net/southcarolinamap.htm>. 13 Jan. 2010.