Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Lesson One World Book Encyclopedias

 

World Book Kids I have been using this for the students in our lower grades. We have compared animals and they have looked at the Maps and More. The next assignment is to compare South Dakota to another state, specifically concerning population, state tree, state bird and state flowers. By looking at these items they will see other comparisons.
World Book Student Our students are participating in a Prairie Reader Contest. The next assignment will be to look up various authors in the biography section to find information about the authors on their book list.
World Book Advanced. I looked up Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I did not realize there were back in time articles or web sites about this book and Mark Twain. It would be useful for the students to use these sites and perhaps to hear a section or two read in class when discussing classics or any book that is in the E-book Center.
World Book Discover gave me a few problems. I finally set up an account thinking that would help me. I can not get the How to do Research section to come up as an article. I just get an outline. I will go back to that. I think this would be a great way to review or to learn how to do research correctly. I do not have a lot of interaction with the high school students so will have to give this resource information to the high school teachers.

1 comment:

  1. Good to see you here, Lois! Good ideas for using these resources! As for World Book Discover, the "How to Do Research" should be a series of clickable links. They should be orange rectangles with white text. I wonder if your computer needs an updated version of something (java, maybe?) to display correctly. Ask your computer guy, and let us know if you need help with anything.

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