Lesson 5  Gale Virtual Reference Library

1. Oh, my goodness.  I have never really been in here and did I find a lot of useful stuff.  I need to run off that title page so that I can keep that at the desk and use this site more.  I can't afford to buy a lot of these kind of books because of the expense. 
One of the first titles that caught my eye was "Bowling, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms.  Last year I had a girl do a report on some fashion things and we had a hard time finding a print source for her.  This would have been perfect.  I had a great time in this source.  I looked at Hats and found lots of fun stuff about hats. 
Then I have a teacher starting 7th grade scientists reports.  He was looking for information on Johannes Kepler.  I have purchased a lot of books on Scientists because he does this project each year, but I did not have anything on this person.  I put it into the search bar and came up with 64 results and went down and showed him where this site was tonight.  This way the student will have a book source.  I told him he was going to have to help the student because a lot of it is above what a 7th grader may understand but it could be useful.  I found the number of words in an article helpful for knowing how long the article might be. 
Then as I went down the list I saw the title Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans so I need to get that to the guidence person but I didn't see her today.  I did notice that this was a 2012 date so the things will be current.  I did go into the site and browse around so it would be a good place to send students looking for additional funding for school. 
The one thing I did notice was that a lot of the books listed were not newer editions so a person would have to judge what kind of information was needed and what kind of a date you are looking at. 
Another book that I know I can use is the Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America.  I have an English teacher that has seniors do research papers on court cases each year so this will be a place I can send those students. 
Another title that caught my eye was Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Culture.  We have geography classes do reports on countries and this would be another good source for them.  There is also a World Mark Encyclopeida of States and I have a 4th grade teacher that does states so if they needed extra material they could go to this site.  It might be a bit difficult for 4th graders. 

2.  I kind of already did this question with Johannes Kepler but I will do another search and see what I can find.  Oh, I did hats too and that was fun. 
I found 714 results for Zink.  Of course there were many chemical articles as well as food and wellness articles.  I like the health items because these are things people often look for and the books get outdated so quickly. 
I went down to ADHD Diet and clicked into the article.  I turned on the listen and liked that the words were highlighted as the reading was done.  This could be very helpful for a student using the listening feature.  I thought the voice was pleasant to listen to. 
Just to try I went to the Advanced Challenge question and put in Spring Holidays and found the first page of references were mostly from the Junior. Worlmark Encycolpeida of World Cultures.  I guess just looking at titles of books this is where I would think the answers might be at. 

3.Tonight I looked at a lot of other blogs.  I comments on some of them and that was fun.  I found another person that liked the Bowlers, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms book.