{"id":381,"date":"2013-03-20T18:23:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.cortland.edu\/wordpress\/library\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:36:13","slug":"featured-database-mas-ultra-school-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2013\/03\/20\/featured-database-mas-ultra-school-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Database: MAS Ultra School Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/03\/database-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-383 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/03\/database-image.jpg\" alt=\"MAS Ultra School Edition\" width=\"399\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/03\/database-image.jpg 399w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/03\/database-image-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a>Secondary Education students looking for articles to supplement their lesson plans will find a great resource in<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.cortland.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=ulh\"> MAS Ultra<\/a>. This database contains educational magazines and journals, reference works, and primary sources, all aimed at the high school level.<\/p>\n<p>Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebscohost.com\/titleLists\/ulh-periodicals.htm\">roughly 500 periodicals<\/a> included are: <em>American Heritage, American History, Astronomy, Bioscience, Civil War Times, Discover, History Today, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American&#8230; <\/em>and many more, representing a variety of subject areas. In addition, MAS Ultra has background material from encyclopedia articles and biographies. There\u2019s text from primary source materials such as historical documents and speeches, as well as photos, maps, flags, and other images.<\/p>\n<p>Searches can also be narrowed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexile.com\/about-lexile\/grade-equivalent\/grade-equivalent-chart\/\">Lexile Reading Level<\/a>, making this database very useful when working with a specific grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secondary Education students looking for articles to supplement their lesson plans will find a great resource in MAS Ultra. This database contains educational magazines and journals, reference works, and primary sources, all aimed at the high school level. Among the roughly 500 periodicals included are: American Heritage, American History, Astronomy, Bioscience, Civil War Times, Discover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}