Online+Resources


 * Online Resources Classwork **

1. The resources available through EBSCO are: - Teacher Reference centre, which gives access to many teacher and administrator journals and magazines that help teachers

- Book Collection: Nonfiction, which is a research database containing informative abstracts and full texts for over 4,100 popular nonfiction books. It also has entries/texts and information on topics such as careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills… etc.

- TOPICsearch, which is a database will over 60,000 full text articles from hundreds of sources such as international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, pamphlets and government information.

- MAS Ultra – School Edition, which is like an online library and is a database containing full text for roughly 500 popular high school magazines. There are also full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, school image collections of photos, maps, flags and full text backfiles dating back to 1975 for key magazines.

- Science Reference Center, which is a research database that contains many full text science related content.

2. The Student Research Centre is like a database and search engine for students. It allows students to search for articles, maps, biographies, newspapers, magazines, reports, radio and TV news transcripts and many other useful resources.

a) There are 548 magazine articles about technology and design in 2010.

b) The article is about getting students to be better inquirers through science and the scientific method. The article states that we can become better inquirers by understanding what we are doing and why we are doing it. It also states that by making classroom instruction more reflective of what scientists do, meaning that lessons would become more “inquiry-oriented”. So, when students have a question they can be responsible for organizing experiments and ways for themselves to find the answers to their own questions and evaluating and reflecting on the process and outcome. The writer believes that this will teach students about what scientists due and encourage students to take charge of their own learning, all while leading to a much more in depth understanding of inquiry. This is because students will understand more about why they are making certain decisions and how conclusions are reached, they will also learn more about what happens when two people disagree on one solution and have different opinions. Overall, the main idea of the article is that students will be better inquirers if they understand what they are doing and why they are doing it. Bibliography: Lederman, Norman G. “A Powerful Way to Learn” From: "Science and Children;" Sep2010, Vol. 47 Issue 10, p8-9, 2p

3. The visual search is similar to the regular search but the results are displayed in column and block style so there are different sorting options and articles can be saved in a personal folder. Also, there is a rating of how relevant each result is to your topic.

a) I think this can be very helpful with my personal project because whenever I research I can save articles in my own folder and It says how relevant each article is so it will be quicker and more straight forward to gather information.