Critical insight into all sides of today's
current issues
SIRS Researcher helps students make sense of the world by offering relevant, credible resources aligned to standards that tell the whole story on the major issues of the day.
Go in-depth into more than 100 of our top Leading Issues, or explore thousands of subjects covering topical issues. It's all here, enduring issues such as abortion, capital punishment, and gun control; and current issues such as global warming, immigration, and same-sex marriage.
SIRS has been the leader in social issues coverage for 35 years running.
Each SIRS Leading Issue:
- Offers introductory overview for context.
- Reviews the issue's pro/con viewpoints with resources for each viewpoint.
- Displays My Analysis that frames important questions.
- Links to printable PDFs for use in classroom instruction.
- Provides relevant, full-text documents and multimedia resources, updated daily.
- Offers sample activity templates for student essays, research papers, debates, etc.
- Promotes critical thinking and inquiry-based learning.
- Watch a multimedia demonstration.
Thousands of highly targeted documents, primary source documents, websites, and multimedia (including 13,000+ research-quality images) represent viewpoints from the pros and cons, to everything in-between.
When combined with SIRS' full-text arguments and analysis, students can develop well-rounded, thoughtful opinions on thousands of issues and topics. And teachers get tools that help them tie the issues to curriculum, classroom assignments, and learning standards.
Additional tools integrate Researcher into daily instruction, including critical questions and graphic organizers for debates, research papers, opinion essays, and more.
Finally, standards alignments and Lexile reading levels match reader ability and text difficulty, allowing for individualized instruction and monitoring of annual yearly progress.
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