Pioneer+Library

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The first resource I looked through in the pioneer library was World Book Encyclopdia. 1.) This site includes featured videos, research tools, a biography center, quizzes and activities, most popular articles, and the last two sections are what's new and exploring. This site was extremely easy to navigate. The quality of information was amazing. The lastest entries were in October of this year. This month it showed new picture entries, new dictionary entries, as well as a lot of new articles and revised articles. 2.) This site was very easy to navigate. I put my 13 year old son on it and he looked at it for over an hour. 3.) As an educator you could use this in numerous ways. You could practically make a whole lesson plan from here. Some of the things this would include would be research, timelines, subjects for different biography projects, as well as quizzes and activities. 4.) Within this site it also includes a kids site called World Book Kids. They could use it for research, science projects, to compare places, and it also has games and activities.

The second resource I looked at was SIRS Discoverer. 1.)This site contains articles, newspapers magazine, references, graphics, and webfind sites. This site included alot of valuable resources and the quality was great. The articles in this site are fairly recent. For example: the lastest article that came out was about the Nobel Peace Price Goes to Women's Rights activist on October 7, 2011 2.) This site was fairly easy to navigate. I think the site is geared toward older children. 3.) As an educator I would probably use this site to help bring the current events into the classroom. 4.) As an elementary teacher you would be able to help the child use this site by helping them find different articles. As I said it is geared more to the older children.
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The third resource I explore was Thinkfinity. 1.) This site has a little bit of everything. It includes lesson plans, student interactives, 21st century skills, today in history, standards alignment, as well as at home games and tools to use afterschool with parents and kids. It also has a great place for resource to get help with literacy. The quality was great, and it includes history as well as recent issues. 2.) This site was fairly easy to navigate. 3.) As an educator this site would be extremely helpful because it includes lesson plans, interactives for the student, activities and 21st century skills-preparing for tomorrow. 4.) The site would be great for the students it includes home and afterschool activities and projects. I would also have them use the student interactive as well as learning the 21st century skills to help them prepare for the future
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