Pebble Go
Makes researching fun!
Home Screen
Pebble Go is a a research database that is specifically designed for early researchers. From this screen you must log in with the username and password that is supplied by your librarian or teacher.
Choosing what to research!
Once logged in you can choose from databases within the database. You can choose from Animals, Earth and Space, Biographies and Social Studies. Each is very easy to navagate for the primary level.
Lets Search an Animal : How about Penguins!
Animal Choices!
From the animal database screen you are taken to a list of subcatagories that can be choosen to fit your search. What would Penguins be under? Birds? Each of subcatagories are listed in print and also in picture. Again so that the younger students know what they clicking on without a lot of help.
Subcatagory Choosen
Once you find Penguin under birds, you can now begin your research. King Penguin was choosen here. Now you have the choice to have the article read to you or you can read it on your own. The text is very simple and a low level so that primary grades can read it. As you can also see the information is broken down into subsections making it easier for young readers to follow.
Text read aloud!
Here it shows how the text is being read by highlighting the words as they are read to them.
Citing sources!
Pebble Go teaches the students to cite their sources by clicking the cite your sources button located on the bottom of the screen.
Videos to watch!
Many of the result pages will have videos to watch. Along with reading the text they are able to watch a video of how the animal interacts with other animals, as an example.
Teacher Lessons!
Games to play!
There are games to play while researching. What students wouldn't be interested in that?They are able to learn while they play!
All images are taken from www.Pebblego.com.