Lesson 6

1. Since this was another form of e-books I put in the same words we used last week to see how this would compare. When I put in zinc I got 73 matches and found some of the same books I had last week.  I also tried Johannes Kepler and there were 2 books brought up.  I clicked into them and there were 3 references given and the pages were shown on the first click in.  There was definatly more information in the Gale books last week.  I liked that listing of the books in the Gale last week too.  I went into Search Databases and this did help limit to certain areas. 
I used the word Mammals and got 59 results for this.  This was interesting because it gave me a lot of books to choose from.  After I clicked into the book there was a list of tools with lots of different options on it which was a nice feature.  I scrolled through the 59 books listed and found a lot of travel books that mentioned mammals and just a great variety of different kinds of books. 


2. I had a hard time with this one.  I looked at the 21 result that came up when I put in Constitution Day.  I looked at those books but there was not anything directly related to this term.  Any time the word Constitution was in bold print the word day was a few sentences away.  I spent over an hour in here trying to find something and did not come up with anything.  I went to Gale and had about the same results.  I finally went to World Book and found just a short description of the term.  I would have a hard time filling this request.  Today, In reading some of the other blogs I may have been looking for the wrong thing.  Maybe I needed to just find things about the constitution that students could use in reports that were given on this day.  I went back and looked and when I put in Constitution I came up with 174 hits.  The first book Representing Popular Sovereignty had a lot of chapters that looked like they could give a student good information that they need.  There was another book called The Constitution of the Untied States of America, which also looked like it had good information. 

3. I found 56 results when I put in Nebraska.  If this is a college class there is a lot of interesting information on Indian Policy in the book Documents of United States Indian Policy.  It has a good timeline of the different agreements with the Indian nations. I also put in Oklahoma and it was good to compare the two entries.  I think I liked the Oklahoma entry better for a Project on Western history.  I think either would be very useful.  I found a book on the Rapid City, Indian Schools which looked like a very interesting book. 

In looking back at all the lessons that we have done I would not rate this as my favorite site.  This could be because I work with younger children and this would not be a good site for them.  This is definatly upper high school or college age students that would find this useful.  I just found Gale to be easier to use.  I am enjoying these lessons because they get me into things I have never been into very much before and lets me decide which ones would be useful to me.