Lesson 1B

So I decided to knock it off with the wombats and porcupines, to check out coyotes. In World Book Online for Kids (PL version), the information is simple but effective for the age group. I do wish they would use real photos for this age group though. I don't really see the point of using drawings for little kids. I also listened to the coyote sound...not impressed really. Let's see what we have in Info Finder...

Ahh, much more information on coyotes in Info Finder, and once again a real photograph and Latin as well. I also just noticed the "double click on a word to define it" feature. Pretty neat. It's also interesting to me that there is no mention of the articles for the K-5 grades being aligned with the SD content standards. I wonder why that is? Hmmm....

Okay, so when I went into World Book Reference Center I totally got distracted by a picture of Mount Raupehu on the North Island of New Zealand - I'm a huge LOR fan. Then I thought I might as well look up New Zealand as my country. I like the feature on the left that just gives a bunch of pictures. I would think this would be very helpful for a student doing research on a country. The e-book feature on the right is also interesting. Also, primary sources are also very helpful to many people doing research. I think people will like the general layout and graphic nature of the articles. It's laid out very nicely.