Lesson 4

The assignment is to do a basic search in Proquest on something that interests me.  My physics class is going to be researching, designing, and building solar ovens this week, so I searched 'Solar Ovens'. There were 1200 results.  I liked the icons that indicated if the results were from magazines, trade journals, scholarly journals, etc.  I found many great articles with instuctions on how to build a variety of solar ovens from the simple to more complex, as well as articles about where and why solar ovens are used.  This will be a great resource for my students to use instead of a Google search which gives way too many results that are not relevent.

When I chose the Publication tab I learned that Proquest has over 4400 publications available. I searched for Chemistry journals and found 8. I was interested in learning that there is such a thing as the American Association of Cereal Chemists published in St. Paul.  While it and the other chemistry journals I looked at seem to be beyond the scope of a high school chemistry class, I think if a student was doing research on a chemistry topic, this would be a wonderful resource to find scholarly journal articles.