Saturday, March 10, 2012

EBooks on EbscoHost

1. Do a search for a topic that interests you. Note the default search is "Find all my search terms." You may want to change the search to one of the other options. Review your findings and observations.
I used Children's Literature and got 155 results.
I read parts of Informational Picture Books for Children the illustrations were not included
Quizzes for 220 Great Children's Books
Children of the Civil War
Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a  Book Club
Wildlife Watching with Charles EastmanThe reason that I would continue to use ebooks is so that I could preview them to see whether I would want to purchase them. I guess I still like holding the book best of all. However the ebook would be great to print the quizz for the student reading a specific book or you could even have them type the answers on the sheet to email to you.  The Children of the Civil War and Wildlife Watching with Charles Eastman would both be great so that you could project them with the LCD projector and all students could see everything together. You could also use the note feature and dictionary for whole class instruction this way.

2. Constitution Day is looming and several students need more material. Search EBooks on EbscoHost and recommend some appropriate titles.
I searched for a long time but never found anything that would be appropriate for the K-5 grades that I teach. I used US Constitution and just Constitution with different results. US Constitution was better.
3. A class is doing projects on Western history. They have exhausted the library's print collection. In EBooks on EbscoHost, click "Advanced Search." In the "Select a Field" box, choose "PB Publisher." In the search box, type "Nebraska" or "Oklahoma." Report your findings.
Again, I searched for a long time but never found anything that would be appropriate for the K-5 grades that I teach. I used Nebraska for a search term.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Marilyn, thanks for digging in here. This is intended as a way to expand public libraries' non-fiction holdings, so there is not much for kids here. There may be things for teachers to use, however. I like your idea of projecting pages for whole class activites. Thanks for the comments.

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