Ok, it's just kinda fun to follow links through to other topics, which I've been doing in Gale Virtual Reference Library.
In the first assignment, to click on a book title of interest and access an article, I chose the World War II Reference Library 2000. I am in a young adult reading class and it seems like historical fiction books with families fleeing during WW II has been a hot topic in reading. I know when the kids get to that part of history, they come into the library wanting everything they can find on Holocaust. So I was curious what I'd find on this reference site. Under "Choose a Volume", the Almanac part was where I started looking. There is a great time line given on events of WW II. You can quickly see how the events unfolded. I also liked the words to know section. It's a great glossary. Then I enjoyed looking through the research and activity ideas. What a great resource for projects to do with your students to enhance what they're studying. I was really intrigued by the "Rations Recipe" activity - what an eye-opener that would be for students (and myself)!! When I started reading the parts of the article about the holocaust, I had to stop reading. It is just mind blowing to me what happened during that time. This is not a reference I'd give to Jr. High students, but High School would be able to handle it.
Another choice in "Choose a Volume" was biographies. This was another favorite part for me. If you want to know more about just one person involved in WW II, you can easily find their biography here.
When I went into the next assignment of putting a search term in the search box, I drew a blank, so decided to look up the Huck Finn assignment. I noticed in the side bar to the left there was a topic of banned books, which led to censorship. I spent some time looking through the articles there.
Next, I wanted to try something medical, so I chose "diabetes diet". I found a lot of information about symptoms of diabetes, types of diabetes, treatments for diabetes, but I wasn't finding anything I really was wanting to know. It wasn't getting specific enough for what I thought I wanted to know, which is good foods and bad foods and portion sizes. I'll have to do some more searching.
Now I'm off to see what others found in their Gale Virtual Reference Library search. And to try to catch up!!
Hi, Kathy, thanks for your "moos" here. You reported finding some great stuff! And you are right. In general GVRL is best for high school and adults. I tried youir diabetes search and found some general diet info in articles about diabetes. For what you want, you may have to go to some of the organizations linked at the end of the Diabetes Mellitus article.
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