Post #4

I chose standard SC.5.E.5.3, distinguish among the following objects of the Solar System -- Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets -- and identify Earth's position in it. My resource is a quiz game about the solar system, located on NASA’s website. It asks questions about all the different objects in the solar system, so it would be good to use in the classroom. I could have the students pair up to work on the quiz game together. It would keep the students entertained as well as learning the standard. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelfive/KC_Solar_System.html#.Vr88TfkrLIV

I usually use the FSU online library to do my research for classes. Now that I know about google scholar it will be easier to find good peer reviewed articles. Before I would simply google my topic and search for articles, and I would never really know if the articles were peer reviewed or acceptable for use in my school assignments. Now I have a much more efficient way to search for and cite my sources. I also now acquire smarter searching skills that will allow me to find articles relating to my topic much quicker and easier.

This web hunt assignment taught me all of the ways to conduct a better google search. Before I always simply type in what I want to search for, word for word. Now I have the power to make my searches much more specific, therefore saving time and energy searching for the right article. Using the + and – really helps narrow the search results to everything relevant to my topic. The quotation marks around string can also help retrieve better search results. I used them around names and certain phrases. It surprised me how different search results could be with slight modifications to what I searched.