Lesson 3

I looked up Black Footed Ferrets in SIRS Discoverer.  There were 30 resources all together.  Of these, there were 4 newspaper articles & 15 magazine articles.  There were several older articles as well as some from 2012, including from magazines such as Science World, Ranger Rick, and National Geographic Young Explorer.  All the articles included proper citations near the bottom.  There were also 3 reference articles, nine graphics, and a really excellent web page.

In the Database Features I selected Country Facts and investigated Germany.  It included basic information similar to what one would find in an encyclopedia, major historical events, a map, the flag, and also a section with interesting facts about the country.

In the Skills Discoverer section I chose, Science, then Inventions.  There was a Featured Interactive that proveded 4 games, as well as a link for more websites that led back to the main web links one would get to if they had searched from the home page.

In SIRS Issues Researcher I chose Gun Control from the quick links in the middle of the page.  It was easy to use and proveded excellent resources.  I really liked the note organizer link that popped up a graphic organizer.  I think that would be a great resource for students to visually organize their data.

In the Curriculum Pathfinders there was a nice selection of topics.  I chose science.  There was Research Ideas, Interactives, and Subject Areas.  I chose Chemistry and found lots of websites, articles, refrences, and other media.  Good resource!