I feel like I've been learning a lot so far! I am excited for this new exercise.
I thought that I would do a search on the Hunger Games. I have students ask for it almost everyday and our waiting list is extensive. On my initial search request, I found articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, and newspapers. The scholarly journals were what I expected - literary reviews. The Horn Book Review was often cited as a trade journal.
I posted to Electronic Resources Edition: Part 2, but when I hit publish, a drop down asked for profile. I chose Google account and all my typing was gone. Ugh! My main comments were that my inner nerd was also thrilled to see access to all sorts of publications.
When I clicked on the Publications tab, there were over 3800 publications! Yowza! I tried to type in science as my search request, but found that I needed to be more specific as it pulled any title with science in it, including political science and computer science. When I narrowed it down to Biology, I found the search to be more manageable. I clicked on The American Biology Teacher. I even e-mailed myself one of the articles from the latest issue about using postage stamps to teach science. I just did a postage stamp project and one of my students claimed it was a little archaic considering the decline of snail mail. I'll be forwarding him that article ;)
Friday, February 3, 2012
Lesson 3 Sirs - Finally
Ok- I hope that I'm not the only one this far behind. I am hoping to get back on track this weekend!
I am sad to say that I have never used SIRS before. There are sooooo many options out there, I don't know if I'll ever get to sample even 1% of them, but on first look, this is one that I would use again.
I did the recommended SIRS Discoverer search for armadillos. I came up with 78 sources. I can really appreciate the reading level indicators as well as those with graphics. I think this resource would work well for beginners as well as seasoned researchers.
I clicked on one of the links that indicated an easy article from Ranger Rick. I liked the fact that not only was the article included with links to the graphics, but there was also a link to both a thesaurus and dictionary. What a great way to give students the ability to be more autonomous!
For the second part of the Discoverer section, I chose to look at Greece in the database features. The link brought up the facts, of course, but it also provided graphic organizers for teaching resources, graphics including a map and the Greek flag, and MLA documentation that could be cut and pasted to a student's research.
I looked at several maps in the Maps of the World section. My husband teaches American History and I could see this being an excellent supplement for his students. He would not need to hope for the best in a random internet search, but could specify exactly what he wanted to depict in a map of the Civil War, for instance.
I looked at the Educator Resources and Activities. In addition to library duties, I also teach sections of Biology and Anatomy. I thought some of the graphic organizers about how to analyze charts and graphs would be a great tool for the beginning the year. I looked at a couple of the links under activities (I'm definitely going back to this!!). I found some activities that were question/answer and a really neat activity that I'm going to try later with my 4 year old to use science to make dull pennies bright and shiny again.
In the SIRS Issues Researcher, I was, of course, drawn to the topic of banning books. The topic overview let me know that the issue was bigger than just books, it was all about censorship. When I clicked on a link to one of the essential questions, I was able to see many article both for and against the issue. I think our high school social studies teacher uses this. If not, I'll be pestering him to give it a look on our next school day.
Why, oh why, didn't I make time for this before??? The curriculum pathfinders has tons of information! So much better than a google search. I looked at the science topics and was pleased to find lots of possibilities for topics we are working on right now - heart health and genetics!
I am sad to say that I have never used SIRS before. There are sooooo many options out there, I don't know if I'll ever get to sample even 1% of them, but on first look, this is one that I would use again.
I did the recommended SIRS Discoverer search for armadillos. I came up with 78 sources. I can really appreciate the reading level indicators as well as those with graphics. I think this resource would work well for beginners as well as seasoned researchers.
I clicked on one of the links that indicated an easy article from Ranger Rick. I liked the fact that not only was the article included with links to the graphics, but there was also a link to both a thesaurus and dictionary. What a great way to give students the ability to be more autonomous!
For the second part of the Discoverer section, I chose to look at Greece in the database features. The link brought up the facts, of course, but it also provided graphic organizers for teaching resources, graphics including a map and the Greek flag, and MLA documentation that could be cut and pasted to a student's research.
I looked at several maps in the Maps of the World section. My husband teaches American History and I could see this being an excellent supplement for his students. He would not need to hope for the best in a random internet search, but could specify exactly what he wanted to depict in a map of the Civil War, for instance.
I looked at the Educator Resources and Activities. In addition to library duties, I also teach sections of Biology and Anatomy. I thought some of the graphic organizers about how to analyze charts and graphs would be a great tool for the beginning the year. I looked at a couple of the links under activities (I'm definitely going back to this!!). I found some activities that were question/answer and a really neat activity that I'm going to try later with my 4 year old to use science to make dull pennies bright and shiny again.
In the SIRS Issues Researcher, I was, of course, drawn to the topic of banning books. The topic overview let me know that the issue was bigger than just books, it was all about censorship. When I clicked on a link to one of the essential questions, I was able to see many article both for and against the issue. I think our high school social studies teacher uses this. If not, I'll be pestering him to give it a look on our next school day.
Why, oh why, didn't I make time for this before??? The curriculum pathfinders has tons of information! So much better than a google search. I looked at the science topics and was pleased to find lots of possibilities for topics we are working on right now - heart health and genetics!
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