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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students use encyclopedias to locate information about marsupials. They use periodical indexes and articles to locate information about marsupials. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students create "Me" entries for a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, and newspaper. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore the encyclopedia and take notes from it in a formatted way. They analyze and compare the encyclopedia to an almanac and begin to take information on their chosen president. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore the electronic encyclopedia, its location, its format, and print an article out about their president. students take note on their article including multimedia information. They access Ed-CD's and utilize the information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students work together in groups to research a topic of interest to them. They use a multimedia encyclopedia for their research and share their informaton with the class. They create a poster to illustrate the information they have gathered. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students practice using a variety of reference materials. They are asked how they find out about unfamiliar subjects. Students check the origin of jeans in the dictionary. The teacher explains that the encyclopedia tells about Benedict Arnold. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac, glossary, thesaurus, and/or telephone book, practice finding and exploring listed Internet sites for reference materials, and correct ready-made paper using Spellcheck, Thesaurus, and print functions. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine print encyclopedias to research an assigned topic from the social studies curriculum. They choose the correct volume and find the specific information needed and complete bibliographic information on a worksheet. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students use an online encyclopedia to research famous women. As a class, they discuss the ways in which this encyclopedia is different from others they have used. They read information about the woman who created Sesame Street and other women of their choice. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the history of the encyclopedias and compare and contrast them with the online version, Wikipedia. In groups, they research the strengths and weaknesses and prepare for a debate about them. Following the debate, students discuss the virtues of each type of research source. Full Review »
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