I took a look at the Gale site and created the following widget for the ebooks -- which seems to one of my current interesting things....
This widget searches all the ebooks that are available through Gale resources. It is nice to have all of the ebooks and topics in one place.
I also had a chance to look through and think about creating a custom seach through Google. That is nice when you are doing a certain topic such as a biography project or a research project on the American Revolution... to then have only certain websites searchable for the students that you pick and add. I will try this next year during several of our research blocks.
I was also able to look and test out some searches on several of the search engines listed... instagrok (which I didn't get really good results with), Kidrex would definately be appealing for kids, and sweetsearch and sweetsearch4me. The last two have a lot of text to scan which might be hard for younger students at first, but I did like the fact that the search term is highlighted in yellow.
Through BOCES I also got the preview two more database sites:
http://www.pkearthandspace.com http://www.pklifescience.com
Both are very nice for the younger students. Lots good information and the way it is presented. One thing I thought was lacking in the topics was natural resources. Many of our teachers talk about them and especially with Earth Day and the going green movement it would be nice to be able to tie those topics all together.
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The powerkids search sites look very interesting. Thanks for sharing those links.
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