Databases Decoded: Middle & High
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SCOLA is a non-profit organization that transmits TV programming from around the world and provides other foreign language resources, lessons, and learning material. You won't find it listed on the database order form; SLS will purchase it for you. If you'd like a subscription, please email us.
TRIAL USER: khammill@wflboces.org PASS: scola2017
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Peer-Recommended Choices
Kathy Lepowski, Gananda MS:
"Maps101 offers resources in a variety of formats that help supplement our curriculum for social studies inquiries and everyday instruction. The animated videos are powerful and appeal to students who are visual learners, as well as reluctant readers and students who are reading below grade level. In addition, the maps can be used by students searching for graphics for their own multimedia presentations."
"Maps 101 supports standards by introducing data, graphics, and educational videos that can be used across curricula and fulfill the technology standards we as Teacher Librarians regularly use in our instruction." TRIAL
Stephanie Post, Waterloo:
"When I am showing databases to students doing research projects -- many of them about health issues -- I recommend Rosen's Teen Health and Wellness as a good go-to place because it is spot-on and easy for them to navigate. I have found that kids often choose a topic because someone near and dear to them has recently been diagnosed with a disease they do not understand. They use Rosen to learn more about it and find what treatment is available for their loved ones. It gives them information and encouragement."
TRIAL USER: slsa1 PASS: slsa1
Jeanne Taylor, Dundee Central:
"I like that it has an eye-catching, Pinterest feel to the layout of the resources, which is especially important since this is a database that curates primary sources that ordinarily might not be visually appealing to students."
"For teachers, there are detailed Common Core Curriculum Guides tied to the database's anthologies. I am encouraging teachers to use it in a variety of courses, since there are resources related to art, music, literature, culture, science, architecture, drama, business, and more. And it can be used as a source of primary sources to support the new Social Studies Common Core requirements for inquiry-based learning."
TRIAL USER: WFLBOCEStrial PASS: welcome1
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Created by Teresa Keyes, W-FL BOCES SLS 2017