CultureGrams is a reference database available using the Abington Public Liibrary's web site. Individuals (you, each of your students) must have an Abington Public Library card to access information in this database. Every country in the world, all 50 states and the Canadian provinces are profiled in detail in this database. There are photos, videos, slideshows, interviews with residents/citizens, famous people, recipes,flags, graphs, tables and statistics for every place in the world. One can find the 8 culture traits - language, government, economy, religon, daily life, social groups, and history - for every country in the world in CultureGrams. CultureGrams has a World Edition, KidsEdition, States Edition, and Provinces Edition.
To login:
1. Go to www.abingtonpl.org/databases.html
2. Under the list of databases go to "History and Social Studies" - "CultureGrams". If you are at home or school click "Home".
3. Enter your library card number as your barcode. Click "Submit". You are now on the opening page of CultureGrams. To find information about a specific country click on"List of Countries".
There are training resources, teaching activities, curriculum standards, and citation information on this site (see the bootm of the page). This site is listed on the History and Social Sciences Web Page but it is not just for Social Studies teachers. World Language teachers can use it to research the people and countries that speak a particular langauge. ELA teachers can use the information on the site to reseach foreign authors and study the settings of their novels, short stories, and poems. For math teachers there are graphs, statistics, and tables. Science teachers can use the infromation oin CultureGrams to teach ecosystems around the world. This is truly a site for academic areas. Below is a typical home in American Samoa. Just one of thousands of images available on CultureGrams.
