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I explored the resource Britannica Elementary. This is a wonderful database for students K-6 grade to teach information literacy. This resource can be utilized by classroom teachers and media specialists. It is crucial that educators teach information literacy skills to students at a young age. Britannica Elementary helps students to gain foundational knowledge in how to search and find information appropriate and relevant to the topic they are exploring. Students are required by Alabama CCRS to collaborate together in a shared research project beginning in kindergarten. This is a great tool for students to work together to gather information on their individual reading levels.
Some things I really liked about this resource was the list of standards, the differentiated reading levels, and the option to use a citation. Those things I did not find available on the kids infobits website. However I thought the kids infobits website was much more user friendly for students. It had pictures and the read aloud option as well. This resource would be great for 3rd-high school students but might be a bit challenging for some of the younger elementary. I agree that the read aloud tool is probably my favorite and I am so glad to see that many of these websites utilize that tool. I am not sure what grade you teach, if you are indeed a teacher, but you should definitely check out the kids infobits website for the younger kiddos. They would love the pictures and categories that are provided to help narrow their search. Great job!
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I chose to use the Brittanica Academic link. Growing up we all had use of encyclopedia sets such as World Book and others. Brittanica was always considered the more academic of encyclopedia sets when I was in school. I found this site very helpful because of the headings that it has. Being a social studies guy, I appreciate how it has headings and links for different disciplines under social studies like political science and geography. My main focus of interest was the link to primary source documents. That was really helpful especially with many districts going to Eureka curriculum which focuses on more document based teaching. The other reason that I chose this site is the helpful flyer that is viewable from the avl website. This site even offers a free 30 minute webinar that teaches one how to use the site. It’s really a great tool that I have not seen with most other document/academic search engines. Very helpful.
I don't teach elementary school, however, I noticed on your video that their was a Britannica Middle School database on one of the headings. This database appears to be full of information and user friendly. Britannica is filled with many tools that students can utilize during their research. The one tool that will be most beneficial to the students is the ability to change the reading levels within the article and the ability to definition of words as well. The information you provided on the Britannica database has given me another research tool to use for my students' upcoming research project.
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