Lesson 2a - Britannica School Edition

The mammal that I chose for this assignment was the dolphin. The Elementary School Edition offered basic facts and was easy to navigate with great pictures available. This site was very user friendly. I like the Explore Topics links because it lists many different suggestions if you are having a hard time deciding on a topic to research.

The Middle School Edition, as I expected, offered more detailed information.  It actually expanded on my “dolphin” search to include articles about the Miami Dolphins football team and some of their older players. I think the subject search would have to be more specific, maybe dolphin mammal, in order to eliminate the football information.  The Additional Content link to the right offered many useful options in both the Elementary and Middle School Editions.

I searched the High School Edition for the country of Albania and was amazed at the information available on this site. There were links to maps, Quick Facts if you just need some basic information, magazine articles and so much more.  Journals and magazines offer current daily information about what may be happening in the country you are researching. You can even hear the country’s National Anthem. I think that the ability to site pages for bibliography information is very helpful. Endless possibilities!

The Workspace link would be extremely helpful for both teachers and students. Teachers would be able to set up a workspace and add information that they would normally have to hand out to the students in paper form. The Workspace would help students with their organizational skills as well. Students sometimes get overwhelmed when they have to sort through pages of information. This option would allow them to save materials to go through at a later date and decide what is useful and what they don't need.  For those students that have trouble keeping track of their papers the w

Workspace would be very valuable. The possibility to view other sites without the fear of losing information is perfect for those that tend to hit the wrong key and delete everything they just typed.  This is a great link!