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We hope you had an enjoyable summer. Like you, we at galeschools.com are busy getting ready for a new school year — and our "to do" list includes revising CurricuLinks to offer you even more . . .

Content linked to the curriculum and current events
Opportunities to gain grants for your school
Information on professional development
Views from education experts

Breaking News: Science Resource Center is live!
Looking for trustworthy science content? Eureka! Thomson Gale's new Science Resource Center is the online database that delivers authoritative references plus thousands of screened, reliable periodicals, images and Web sites. And just for educators: content already linked to national and state science standards! Discover more now.

Win a $1,000 grant from Thomson Gale

In celebration of the new Sleeping Bear Press book D Is for Democracy: A Citizen's Alphabet, we invite students from grades 3-8 across the nation to participate in the new "Grassroots Volunteer" campaign. Your class's proposal for supporting worthy causes could come to life with the help of a $1,000 grant to your school. Five school winners will be announced on Jan. 20, 2005. Read more about how to get started.

Grants for the Humanities

New from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): up to $100,000 in curriculum development, and up to $200,000 for materials development tied to humanities projects. Application deadline: October 1, 2004.

Guidelines and application forms are available at the National Endowment for the Humanities Web site, or contact:

Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities,
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20506
Phone: 202/606-8380
FAX: 202/606-8394
e-mail: education@neh.gov
TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

What's new? Plenty!

Thomson Gale has a number of new products and partners to help you and your students achieve more. New to the Thomson Gale family:

WEB FEET— the acclaimed provider of educator-selected Web sites is now part of Thomson Gale. The product includes a K-12 collection ideal for secondary school use. Look for free WEB FEET links in CurricuLinks starting this September

LitFinder — Thomson Gale is now your exclusive source for LitFinder, a remarkable database delivering 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and thousands of full-text stories, essays, speeches and plays

xreferplus — Thomson Gale has announced a strategic collaboration with xrefer, publisher of the acclaimed xreferplus ready-reference collection. Find dictionaries, atlases, thesauri and more, already linked to the Gale Virtual Reference Library, your best source for a customized eBook collection

ChiltonLibrary.com — Vocational training is a must in today's high-tech society, and Chilton stands alone in the quality of its product. Thomson Gale is the exclusive library distributor of Thomson Delmar Learning's Chilton automotive repair database, ChiltonLibrary.com.

Call your sales rep at 1-800-877-GALE for more information or to set up a free trial.