Basic discovery exercise questions:
1. I ended up teaming up with my second grade son on this portion.. We chose to look up information on hamsters. When we put the word hamsters into the search engine we were very surprised at how much information and different topics there were to choose from. We selected "hamsters on the wild side". There was only one picture on this particular topic. And there was only one reading level to choose from and that was an easy reading level. Even though there was only one reading level to choose from this was very good information. My son really enjoyed reading about them. I particularly liked the citation part of the page To explain to my students where the information came from.
2. I chose to complete this question with my fifth-grade son. He chose to look up information and facts about Russia. We both Really liked the overview portion of information about the country. I really enjoyed the major events in history portion of this page because it provides an excellent opportunity to open up discussion about your country that you're talking about. My son really enjoyed the "did you know" part it really Struck his curiosity and imagination about the country. The maps of the world tab I don't even know where to begin because of the amount of information that was there and the amount of different maps there were to browse through and look at. This was by far my favorite part of this assignment because it really showed me how much data there is on this particular website. Wow! Unfortunately I could not find the database features for this particular subject I don't know if I did anything wrong or not but I just could not find it.
SIRS Issues researcher questions:
1. I chose to look up information on education funding. The overview portion of this was very good I thought it was very informative. The research tools I thought was very diverse and gave me many options to choose from. As far as the articles part on the left-hand side of the page there were 1000+ newspaper and magazine articles to choose from on this subject. Plus the part that I really like is that it had reference articles as well. If I needed very good information I know that I could count on coming to this particular page and finding anything that I need.
2. In the curriculum pathfinders portion I chose to look up information on physics. As far as core subjects all of the important core subjects were there to choose from I just chose science and physics because that's the area in which I teach. Again I cannot say enough about the range of topics covered and to choose from within just one subject of science. Again I chose physics and I thought that it was very extensive with a huge amount of information that it discussed. In the research tools on this particular subject it had newspaper articles, magazine articles, Government documents which I really liked, It had reference articles, graphics and media which is something that would appeal to my visual learners, And then finally it had a web select sites, Which was amazing because it had about 25 pages of other websites that I could visit to get different types of information and just elaborate more on my subject.
Common Core Connections
I chose to look up information on physics. And I hope that this answers this particular part because I actually thought that it could look up information on every single standard within science. I was very impressed with the amount of information and the depth of that information that it covered. My students would be able to get any amount of information from this website and I as a teacher am going to be using it within every chapter that I cover. Awesome website!
Hi, Adam, we LOVE that your sons are collaborating with you here! You are all doing great! In the SIRS Discoverer question about Database features, we are referring to the links to special files on the bottom right of the home page--the same area where you found the maps. We think Curriculum Pathfinders can be a big timesaver for when you are trying to find good websites for your students. You know these are good sites because editors & educators have already chosen them, instead of you spending time on google. We are pleased to hear your enthusiasm with this resource! Thanks for your comments.
ReplyDeleteI also liked that you worked on this with your sons. I think it is interesting that they both picked such different subjects to look up. I think that you made in interesting point when you brought up the reading levels of the hamster articles. I didn't even think about that when I was looking up things in SIRS.
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