This is my first try at a blog so I am hoping to learn a lot of things.
Lesson 1a.
1.
Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They are the only animals
with a long trunk for a nose. An elephant also uses its trunk like a hand to put food
into its mouth. A mother elephant uses her trunk to stroke her baby. And an elephant
takes a shower by sucking water into its trunk and then spraying it over its body.
Wild elephants spend most of the day eating. They eat about 300 pounds (140
kilograms) of plants a day. They bathe in lakes and rivers and love to roll around in
muddy water. After a mud bath, an elephant may cover itself with dirt. The dirt helps
protect the animal's skin from the sun and insects.
2. This article is much longer. The first article has 4 videos adn 1 picture. The second article has 4 videos(most are the same video), 9 pictures, 1 sound and 1 table. In the first article the sentence structure is short and simple and in the second article the sentences are much longer and complex. Both articles showed citations. In the first search I found 44 articles and in the second search I found 167 articles.
3. I found the slide presentation in the center fun to watch. The presentations on both the left and right gave a student lots of options when searching. I put in Togo because we had some students here join the peace corps and that is where they went. I felt for this small country the Maps and Encyclopedia articles were the most helpful. Back in Time also provided a lot of good information on how this country was established.
4. In this section the pictures could help somone that did not speak English. Then on the left side it let a student change languages which would also be very helpful. One thing I did not find is the number of articles available on that topic. I like to see that when I get into a subject and so many of the data bases have this feature. Maybe I just missed it somewhere.
This unit was very good tonight because I am just getting into using the World Book database with my 6th grade classes.
Hi, Dee, thanks for teaching us more about elephants! You've made good observations about World Book. For 4., if you do a search in the search box, it tells you the number of articles at the top of the results page. If you browse, it does not. Hope your 6th graders have fun with this!
ReplyDeleteThat was helpful when I did the search in the box. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI ran out of time to get my last question done in the World Book but am going to finish before I go on to the next lesson. Sometimes the hours just run out.