Lesson 10 - Wrap Up

I have had an ideal situation while taking this class.  I had my students doing lessons at the same time I was reviewing what I had learned some years ago.  I often find I forget resources unless I repeatedly use them myself.  It was great to repeat this class to review what I had forgotten.  Reviewing while the younger classes were  learning how to use the World Book, Proquest and other electronic resources could not have been better timing.  I would still like to introduce Ancestry to one class as they did some research into family history. 

My goals are the following: 
#1  That Dakota Christian School students use  the electronic resources offered by the state library as our primary sources for research.   I find that it takes constant reminders to the staff  and students that these resources are available.  One staff member did comment that next year she would demand one resource be from the electronic resources that are offered by the state library.  This year I used library time during our reading contest to introduce and review the electronic resources.  It  worked very well since the students had the books they had to read.  No time was needed for check out.

#2 To continue to have the students learn and review the resources available.  I have made work sheets and I hope to evaluate them and make new work sheets to use next year.

I also have a game I would like to do on the last week of school.  We have one set of World Book Encyclopedias in our library.  I am thinking of having one group of students look up a fact in the hard cover set and the other group of students use the World Book online and see who finds the information first.  I have to give this some thought on how to do it.  One of my goals is that the students do realize what an old World Book Encyclopedia was like so they can see the difference. 

I was encouraged last week.  Two fifth grade students, who are cousins and live on the same farm, asked if our library had information on goats since they had new goats on their farm.  We found one book and then I suggested the World Book Encyclopedia online.  Each student wanted an article printed to take home with them.  They knew exactly how to get to the World Book Resource without me helping them. 

Thanks for this Challenge.  I hope to refer back to this class in the future.  I appreciated all your hard work in preparing the lessons!

Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

#1 The Titanic and her sister ship

I took some time to look at this site. In Passenger Ships I typed in Titanic and at the very end of the article I read the name of the sister ship, Olympic. Then I read about the Olympic. It was interesting that after the destruction of the Titanic, they did do some altering of the Olympic which was built as the same time as the Titanic.

#2 This part of the assignment was a bit frustrating. I finally did an advance search and found a large number of results but I accidently left my notes at school and can’t remember the number. However, most of them were obituaries and I think I would need to ask more questions about what the student wanted.

#3. County anniversary and historical information.  

This was a frustrating assignment and since I had to do it at school, I did not spend as much time as I would like. I used Persi and then went to Places. I typed in South Dakota and my county Charles Mix County. Twenty nine articles appear but I am not able to read the articles. Am I doing something wrong? I imagined very concrete information and I tried using the request form and order form but that is not helpful either. I need to spend more time on this.  I should try to understand this site a bit more.

Extra things

I did some personal searching of information in the Ancestry resource. I found several of my grandparents' names. Then I searched my own name. The search was interesting! There are many people with my last name! Maybe it is good that I can only do this at school. I love family history and have traced my husband’s family back to the 1600’s years ago when doing it was free online!