[CASL-L] research question

[Cathy Andronik]

 Each year, popular demand from our social studies teachers leads us to subscribe to Gale's history products and Opposing Viewpoints.  Both the teachers and the students prefer the way the Gale products are organized and presented.  I show classes both Gale and EBSCO.  Gale ends up getting used much more heavily.  
Cathy AndronikBMHS
    On Thursday, January 25, 2018, 1:35:10 PM EST, Valerie DiLorenzo <vdilorenzo.rumsey at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Why not use researchIT CT which all schools have access to for free? Click on the database "History Reference Center." You'll have a whole list of subjects (by time period). Once you click on the time period, you'll have a whole other slew of topics within the time period to choose from. Once they find a topic with which they connect, they'll already have a good source, the citation will be done correctly for them, and they've learned some good searching strategies already. They can then take their key words/search terms they've learned from one article to search in other databases. 
Happy researching!~Valerie
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Deborah Sharpe <dsharpe at woodstockacademy.org> wrote:


Good morning,




I'm reaching out on behalf of one of our social studies teachers.  We just started a new semester, and thus new classes.  The freshmen world history teachers always assign a research paper at the beginning of the class that they will work on throughout the semester.  Because they  assign the paper before teaching any of the units, the students always gravitate towards the Holocaust or WWII because they are the only topics that they know anything about. The teacher is looking for a creative way to expose them to all the various topics they'll cover in class in just enough depth that it might spark an interest in them for the students.  We were thinking of some sort of history fact find/scavenger hunt type activity, but were wondering if anyone as any suggestions for activities they have found successful.   Thanks in advance for your help!!




Thanks & have a great day =)




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