Pioneer+Library

= ﻿Pioneer Library =

__ Culture Grams, World Edition __
==== In the World Edition portion of the Culture Grams section, there is so much information available for over two hundred different countries! You can select a different country throughout the glob and have instant information all about that place. You can learn the basics like the capital, location, language and currency up to more cultural aspects of the country like the lifestyles of the people, customs and how their society works. The Cuture Grams, World Edition page says, " All reports are updated with recent statistics, government changes, and historical events." This is great because you know that the information that you are revcieving is current and acutally correct with how that country is today. The site is extremely easy to navigate. You navigate through the weblink mostly through images. You select the image " World Edition" when you get onto the Culture Grams page and then you are taken to a page with an image of the globe. You are able to click on any coninent and then country to select what place you would like to learn about. This site would be great to use as an educator because it gives great information that is more cultural and relatable so students can connect more and relate to what they are learning. There is an "access kids verion" link that you can select. This is very useful because you can have your students do research on their own through a more kid friendly version of the site. Having students explore the site themselves engages them even more because they can look up topics that are of more interst to them and also get them involved in learning to do research on their own. (There is not only a World Edition available on Culture Grams. You can also access in a similar way information to the fifty states and more access to kid friendly versions of the links). ====

__ ﻿Ebsco Host, Kids Search (Elementary School) __
==== This site is great for young students to learn how to do research on the internet themselves. This Kids Search link off of Ebsco breaks down finding academic links on research topics into a very basic and kid friendly way. There is a 2011 copyright on the webpage so the information should all be current and being kept up todate. The site is very user friendly and easy to use, especially for the elementary aged student. You are given visual sections that you can choose to find your topic of research in like, health, the news or animals. After selecting you main category of research you can type in what you are searching for and the site brings up links to articles and information just on what you are searching for. This is great because it keeps students on taks, whitout being distracted from other search results that appear in a gerneal search engine and all the informaiton presented in Ebsco, Kids Search is academically correct. This site is great to use as an educator because it gets students to start to be involved in a more detailed learning process. They are going to be able to start to learn how to find academic information online and pull out information that is relevant to what they are researching for. This site would be great to have students use in almost any topic in school. Students can use Kid Search to help them provide information for a sceince project, history presentation or current events activity. There are so many useful posibilities in having students know how to access academically correct information online, and how to do it themselves! ====

__ SIRS Discoverer __
==== SIRS Discoverer is a great educational link that lets students access information in so many different medias. SIRS Discoverer is a search engine but youare able to search for you topic in newspapers, magazines, references, pictures and websites. The quality of information is great because it pull up information from cedible sources with dates and puiblishers. There is information that comes from current events all the way back to past events, depending on what you are researching and looking for. This reosource page in very easy to navigate because you just type into the search bar the subject you are researching and then you are redirected to a page with all your results. Along the top of the page are tabs that let you select in what media you would like you information to be foudn in. This site is great to use as an educator because you can get acces to past newspapers and magazines for projects in the classroom. Also, you are made avaiable to images that have the copyright purchased by the state of Utah in purpose for using in the classroom for educational purposes. This site is very useful for students because they learn that infomation comes in more ways than just an online article. Information comes in newspapers, magazines and all other forms of print. This helps students to get out of the normal and learn to read and reserach in other forms of media. ====