I have to say that this was my least favorite of the resources thus far. I chose to look up information on G-Forces because that is what I am currently teaching about in our Physics class. I was pleasantly surprised about the amount of useful information within the site. I was also very happy with the variety of different topics under the same topic. For instance, I found an article: Experts: New Football Helmet Technology can cut G-forces to the Brain by 50%. This was a very interesting atricle and I even sent it to our athletic director to read.
As far as the publications portion of the assignment...I was not very impressed with this portion. I may need to use it more to become more familar with it, but I thought it was fairly hard to use and navigate to find information. I tried to various topics such as Gravity, Laws or Motion, G-Forces, Accleration, etc. and it alwasy came up that it could not find any...then I just put in Science and it pulled quite a few, but the span of information that it covered would take me a long time to find anything that I am covering in class.
Common Core:
Using the article I mentioned above would connect perfectly with the common core standard: Reading Standard for Informational Text #1: Cite Strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicity as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Hi, Adam, Thanks for trying this one out. ProQuest is a good one for your college-bound students to know about, and for staff to know about, too. We like it because it has popular, trade, and scholarly journals, full-text, available 24/7/365. It is for HS students & adults, and we're happy to see that you got such good results and are sharing your findings. Tweaking your search to get exactly what you want can be tedious. There are helps with the "Suggested Topics" and limiters on the right sidebar. As for the publications link, remember that this area is for searching journal titles. ProQuest may not index a journal called "Gravity." For example, "The Science Teacher" is available for you to search or read cover-to-cover from 1989- present for free in the publications link. Let us know if you have more questions about this. ProQuest is a great place to do professional reading! Your Common Core connection is right on! ProQuest is a wonderful resource for informational text.
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