Lesson 1a World Book School Edition

1. The mammal I chose was the platypus which is found in Australia, lives along streams, and digs burrows in the banks of streams. World Book Kids is a very easy to use resource--excellent for young children. I will have my children use this resource for their research.

2. World Book Student is also very easy to use. Elementary students will find this resource very useful as they are required to do more research for classes. I seached the platypus and found basically the same information, just in more detail. I also like that they have the tools to save the article to their specific research, translate the article, and to have the article read to them.

3. I searched Czechoslovakia on World Book Advanced. The information there was excellent, very informative and would be useful for high school students and their research papers. I liked that there were other search results and related articles/information on the subject.

4. I found with World Book Discover that at least looking for information on the american gov't, it was easier to search by that name then by clicking the topic "history and gov't." But the fact is that no matter what you search for you could easily translate the article to a different language. This would help anyone who didn't speak or read English. I think this would be an awesome tool for foreign language classes to help students in their reading and understanding new languages.

I just listened to the read aloud option and thought it was a little too "computer" sounding to me. I guess I had envisioned it to be a little more like someone was reading to me. The "define" option it nice too--it will help students not familiar with a word to get a quick definition.

Definitely great research sites and tools!