Lesson 10: Basic, Advanced & Common Core Correlations Discovery Exercise

1.  What was your biggest discovery? 

I won't be able to tell you my biggest discovery. This challenge has taught me a lot. I had forgotten some of the resources that were available. I remembered some from previous challenges, though. 

2. How will you promote or use the resources with your patrons, colleagues or students? 

I've already started using them. Just this morning, a student was in here looking for information on Saturn. He was looking on some terrible websites for the information. I redirected him to World Book Student. I told him that now he wouldn't have to worry about anything being inaccurate with this tool. :) I am the most comfortable with World Book and Learning Express. I know this is weird, but I really enjoy taking tests! (Only if I know they aren't being graded.) I will have to make a point to review the other sites regularly so I don't forget how to navigate and use them. :) Thanks for all of the lessons. I really enjoyed taking this Electronic Challenge!

Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps #2 and #3.

2. A student is working on a report about the dirigible, the Hindenburg, and comes to you for help. You try AncestryLibrary's Newspapers & Publications collection. What are your results?

I went to, "Newspapers and Publications" and typed in "dirigible" and "Hindenburg" and got 245 results. I liked how you could zoom in and out of the newspaper articles. It brought me back to high school when we had to do research and look it up on microfiche. This is much easier to find!


3. Your county is celebrating a big anniversary, and townsfolk want some historical information. In HeritageQuest, which collection do you search? What are your results?

I searched the county I live in, which is Lincoln County. I first searched, "Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA" under, "Stories, Memories, & Histories". That got me about 9,000,000 results, so I narrowed it down to "Exact Match". That brought it to 18 matches. This is probably where I would start. 

Common Core Connections
In Lesson 9, spend some time exploring AncestryLibrary, HeritageQuest, and Sanborn Maps. Consider how you would use each resource to meet a Common Core standard. 

Since AncestryLibrary, HeritageQuest, and Sanborn Maps all have to do with History, I went to the Literacy in History/Social Studies Common Core State Standards, and the first one I looked at was: 

6-8.RH.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

6.RI.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of  what the text says explicitly as well as inferences  drawn from the text.  7. RI.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.  8.RI.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports  an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as  inferences drawn from the text.

You could do so much with AncestryLibrary and Heritage Quest to cover History Standards. Just reading an old article on a historical event and then analyzing and making inferences would be a great lesson! You could also do a lot more with other standards! 

Lesson 9 -- History and Genealogy Resources—Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

Advanced Challenge
1. You have heard that the Titanic had a sister ship or two and want more information, including a picture, if possible. 

I started out by clicking on the link, "Immigration and Travel". Then I went to, "Ships and Descriptions", followed by, "Passenger Ships and Images", and found that the Titanic had two sister ships.

Ship Name: Majestic Years in service: 1890-1914 Funnels: 2 Masts: 3 Shipping line: White Star Ship description: Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 9,861. Dimensions: 566' x 57' (582' o.l.). Twin-screw, 20 knots. Triple expansion engines. Three masts and two funnels. History: Launched, June 29, 1889. Cost $2,000,000 to build. Maiden voyage: Liverpool-New York, April 2, 1890. Broke the trans-Atlantic speed record. Her power plant contained 16 boilers and were heated by 76 furnaces, which enabled the engines to develop 17,500 indicated horse-power. Main and mizzen masts were removed in 1902, and an intermediate mast installed instead. She was retired from active service in 1912. However due to the tragic loss of the Titanic in April of that year, she was put back in service as a replacement. Broken up for scrap at Morecambe in 1914. Sister ship: Teutonic.

View ship image(s) Ship Name: Olympic Years in service: 1911-1934 Funnels: 4 Masts: 2 Shipping line: White Star Ship description: Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 45,324. Dimensions: 852' x 92' (882' o.l.). Triple-screw, 23 knots. Triple expansion engines and one low pressure steam turbine. Two masts and four funnels. History: Laid down on December 16, 1908. Launched, October 20, 1910. Note: From keel to top of funnels 175 feet. Navigating bridge was 104 feet above keel. Displacement of 60,000 tons. Draft of 34 1/2 feet. The promenade deck had an extreme breadth of 94 feet. The bower anchors weighed 7 3/4 tons each. The centre anchor weighed 15 1/2 tons. Cost $7,500,000 to build. Passengers: 1,054 first, 510 second, 1,020 third. The crew numbered 860. Maiden voyage: Southampton-New York, June 14, 1911. Rammed and holed by the British cruiser Hawke, September 20, 1911, but was not seriously damaged. After the sinking of the Titanic, her construction was altered. The changes increased her tonnage to 46,439. Served as a troopship in World War I. Thoroughly reconditioned in 1921, including conversion to burning oil fuel. She rammed and sunk the well-known lightship Nantucket off the New England coast, May 16, 1934, during a thick fog. The seven members of the lightship crew were lost. The great liner was withdrawn from service in March 1935 and sold to British shipbreakers later in the year. The scrapped hulk was finally dismantled in 1937. Sister ship:Titanic. View ship image(s)

Lesson 8: Part 2 : CAMIO

Advanced Challenge

1. A student wants to do a project on the way people dressed in Charles Dickens’ England (the Victorian Era was from 1837-1901). What results can you find in CAMIO, and how did you find them?

I went to the search link: Costumes and Jewelry under "Work Types". I looked to the left and clicked on "1800" under 'DATE' and I got 1,774 results. From that point, I would let the student search through the pictures for his/her project. 

Common Core Connections

In Lesson 8, spend some time exploring CAMIO and its features. Consider how you would use this resource to support the visual element in Common Core areas of “Integration of Knowledge & Ideas” and “Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas” for your grade level and content area. 

I would think that CAMIO would work well in covering the following standards: 

Reading Standards for Literature 6–12

Grades 9-12

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic

mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g.,

Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of

Icarus).

7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live

production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version

interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one

play by an American dramatist.)

8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. (Not applicable to literature)

9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific

work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or

how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

9. Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century

foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from

the same period treat similar themes or topics.

You could have the students browse CAMIO and choose two pieces of similar art. they could compare and contrast or analyze both scenes, what mediums were used to make both pieces of art, and what is emphasized or absent in each work. You could do this in an ELA Class, but tie it in with the Art teacher. 

Lesson 8—WorldCat, CAMIO and More

Advanced Challenge

1. You want to know if it’s possible to borrow a non-fiction book about Martin Luther to use for a couple weeks with your 4th & 5th grade Sunday school class. You have nothing in your collection, so you check WorldCat. How do you conduct your search?

Here is what I searched.

WorldCat results for: (ti: Martin and ti: Luther) not ((kw: king, and kw: jr)) and la= "eng" and dt= "bks" and mt: juv. (Save Search)
Records found: 112 Rank by: Number of Libraries

I had to tweak it a bit by adding limiters to search results. 

2. Your library doesn't have many graphic novels. You think adding classics that have been made into graphic novels would be beneficial. To see what's already in libraries, you check WorldCat. Describe your search terms and limiters. Name 1 title you would add and its publisher. 

Search in database:	WorldCat ---------------- Ebooks ArticleFirst ECO WorldCat ---------------- ArticleFirst ClasePeriodica Ebooks ECO ERIC GPO MEDLINE OAIster PapersFirst Proceedings WorldCat WorldCatDissertations    (Updated: 2014-03-03) OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
Search for:	Keyword  Access Method  Accession Number  Author       Author Phrase       Corporate and Conference Name       Corporate and Conference Name Phrase       Personal Name       Personal Name Phrase  Language Phrase  Material Type  Material Type Phrase  Musical Composition  Musical Composition Phrase  Notes/Comments  Publisher  Publisher Location  Standard Number       ISBN       ISSN  Subject       Subject Phrase       Descriptor       Genre/Form       Geographic Coverage       Named Corporation and Conference       Named Person  Title       Title Phrase       Series Title
and andornot	Keyword  Access Method  Accession Number  Author       Author Phrase       Corporate and Conference Name       Corporate and Conference Name Phrase       Personal Name       Personal Name Phrase  Language Phrase  Material Type  Material Type Phrase  Musical Composition  Musical Composition Phrase  Notes/Comments  Publisher  Publisher Location  Standard Number       ISBN       ISSN  Subject       Subject Phrase       Descriptor       Genre/Form       Geographic Coverage       Named Corporation and Conference       Named Person  Title       Title Phrase       Series Title
and andornot	Keyword  Access Method  Accession Number  Author       Author Phrase       Corporate and Conference Name       Corporate and Conference Name Phrase       Personal Name       Personal Name Phrase  Language Phrase  Material Type  Material Type Phrase  Musical Composition  Musical Composition Phrase  Notes/Comments  Publisher  Publisher Location  Standard Number       ISBN       ISSN  Subject       Subject Phrase       Descriptor       Genre/Form       Geographic Coverage       Named Corporation and Conference       Named Person  Title       Title Phrase       Series Title
Limit to:	Year    (format: YYYY-YYYY) Language  No Limit Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek, Modern [1453- ] Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latin Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Other  Show all languages ... Number of Libraries    All  5 or more  50 or more  500 or more
Limit type to: match any of the following	Books   Serial Publications   Articles   Visual Materials   Sound Recordings   Musical Scores   Computer Files   Archival Materials   Maps   Internet Resources   Continually Updated Resources
Subtype limits	Any Audience  Juvenile  not Juvenile    Any Content  Fiction  not Fiction  Biography  Thesis/dissertation  Musical recording  Non-musical recording    Any Format  Large print  Braille  Manuscript  Microform  not Microform  -----------  CD audio  Cassette recording  LP recording  VHS tape / Videocassette  DVD video / Videodisc
Limit availability to: match any of the following	Items in my library (SDS, South Dakota State Library)  Library Code  Find codes ...
Rank by:	Number of Libraries Relevance Date Accession Number

I ended up with 18 records found including The Wizard of Oz, The Call of the Wild, The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, The Wind in the Willows, etc. I would more than likely add all of the titles that came up if my budget would allow. I would want to get as many as I could so the kids could read all of them! 

3. The local theater director would like to do My Fair Lady but is afraid the vocals may be too difficult for the available cast. She wonders if a vocal score is available so she can take a look at it. Describe your search terms and limiters. Give the Accession number of the item you choose.

I searched the following: 

WorldCat results for: ti: My and ti: Fair and ti: Lady and la= "eng" and dt= "sco" and mt: juv. (Save Search) 
Records found: 11 Rank by: Number of Libraries

and found 11 results. 

Out of the 11 results, I would choose the following: 

The singer's musical theatre anthology : 
a collection of songs from musicals, categorized by voice type, in authentic settings, specifically selected for teens /

Richard Walters

2010 Tenor teen's ed.

English  Musical Score : Printed music : Musical revues & comedies : Secondary (senior high) school 1 vocal score (213 p.) ; 31 cm.

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, ; ISBN: 9781423476733 1423476735

because it includes: 

Contents:

Bells are ringing.; I met a girl --; Celebration.; Fifty million years ago --; Chess.; Anthem --; Fiddler on the roof.; Miracle of miracles --; Finian's rainbow.; When I'm not near the girl I love --; Follow the fleet.; I'm putting all my eggs in one basket --; A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.; Love, I hear ;; I'm calm --; Godspell.; All good gifts --; Gypsy.; All I need is the girl --; Hercules.; Go the distance --; High school musical.; What I've been looking for ;; Breaking free --; Into the woods.; Giants in the sky --; Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat.; Any dream will do ;; Close every door --; Little women.; Take a chance on me --; My fair lady.; On the street where you live --; Newsies.; Sante Fe --; Once upon a mattress.; Many moons ago --; The producers.; That face --; Rent.; What you own ;; One song glory --; South Pacific.; Younger than springtime ;; You've got to be carefully taught --; Spring awakening.; Left behind --; Sweeney Todd.; Johanna ;; Not while I'm around --; Tarzan.; Strangers like me --; 13--the musical.; Get me what I need --; Thoroughly modern Millie.; What do I need with love --; Toy story 2.; When she loved me --; West side story.; Something's coming --; Whistle down the wind.; No matter what --; Wicked.; Dancing through life. Accession No: OCLC: 630472899

Common Core Connections

In Lesson 8 in WorldCat, choose “Advanced Search,” type “common core state standards” in the search box, with quotation marks around the phrase. Farther down on the screen, find “Limit Type to:” and click the box next to “Books.” Click “Search” and look through the results. Click on a few titles to see if one is of interest. Then click “Libraries that own this item worldwide” to see where the item is held. If you would like to request the book and are not a librarian, please ask your librarian to request the book for you. 

I did the search and came up with 304 results. The book I chose to look at was called, 

Be core ready : powerful, effective steps to implementing and achieving the common core state standards / Author: Allyn, Pam. Publication: Boston : Pearson, 2013 Document: English : Book Libraries Worldwide: 122 I looked at "Libraries Worldwide" and found that a copy is located at the University of South Dakota. That would be fairly easy for me to get for a teacher if they should need it. :) I use WorldCat quite a bit in my line of work. I am a school and a community librarian. At school, I often have the company I order books from cataloging the books, but at the community library that I work at, we need to catalog the books ourselves. When I can't figure out how a book should be coded, I go straight to WorldCat. It is a very reliable resource.

Lesson 7 -- EBooks on EbscoHost

Advanced Challenge
1. Try out the “Visual Search” feature. Click “Visual Search” under the search box. Do a search on a topic that interests you, or search “South Dakota.” Play around with the display and choose one title. Report your explorations and how you think patrons or students would like this feature. 

I tried to figure out how to do a "Visual Search", but for some reason it won't let me do it. I took a screen shot of my EbscoHost Search Screen. 

In the 2-page handout, it shows a 'Visual Search' right next to the 'Advanced Search'. Mine didn't let me do that. Did I do something wrong? 

I searched, "South Dakota" and got 103 results. It did show a picture of each book on the left of each search result, so maybe Visual Searches is just automatically there when you search. I sorted the search by 'Newest' first. I chose, Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation. I liked how you could look at the table of contents without actually opening the book. You would be able to search the content of the book to see if it's the right one for you without actually having to dig into the book. I also like that they show you the 'most relevant pages' each ebook. 

I think this is a great resource if information at a school library isn't available. My nonfiction section at the middle school library I teach at is shrinking. I weeded, but don't order as much nonfiction as I do fiction. EbscoHost would be a great resource for my students if a topic of a book is not available in my library. 

2. You and your grandmother are talking about childhood books. She recalls enjoying a series of fairy tale books. Each one was a different color. Find these books in Ebooks on Ebscohost. Report your search process, the author and the titles you found.

I guess it is a Monday, because I've spent practically all morning trying to get this Challenge done, and it has beat me. I give up. I've changed the search terms a bunch of times, and I am finding nothing. What really bugs me is that I remember this same question from a year or two ago, and I found it back then. I cannot find this at all. So sorry I couldn't get this figured out. 

Common Core Connections
In Lesson 7, spend some time exploring Ebooks on EbscoHost titles and topics. Consider how you would use this resource to meet a Common Core standard.

Reading Standards for Informational Text 6–12

Grade 6 students: Grade 7 students: Grade 8 students:

Key Ideas and Details

6th Grade: 1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

7th Grade: 1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support

analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as

inferences drawn from the text.

8th Grade: 1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports

an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as

inferences drawn from the text.

6th Grade: 2. Determine a central idea of a text and how it

is conveyed through particular details; provide

a summary of the text distinct from personal

opinions or judgments.

7th Grade: 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text

and analyze their development over the course

of the text; provide an objective summary of the

text.

8th Grade: 2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its

development over the course of the text, including its

relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective

summary of the text.

6th Grade: 3. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or

idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a

text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

7th Grade: 3. Analyze the interactions between individuals,

events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas

influence individuals or events, or how individuals

influence ideas or events).

8th Grade: 3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and

distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events

(e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

For as much trouble as I had with searching for a series and doing a Visual Search, I think EbscoHost would be a valuable tool if you were looking to get some standards covered. Language Arts would be a big area you could cover with EbscoHost! I've listed above just a few of the standards that could be covered in the middle school grades. Searching for a book or journal that would help with a research paper and citing your references would make EbscoHost a valuable tool for new researchers. 

Lesson 6 -- Gale Virtual Reference Library

Advanced Challenge
1. Your civic organization is sponsoring a community event with the theme, “Spring Holidays Around the World.” The organization needs your help in finding the following: a. Spring festival traditions from a variety of countries b. Traditional spring festival foods and their recipes c. Spring festival games or pastimes Report your findings and how you found them in GVRL. 

I started with an Advanced Search, looking for "traditions" and "Spring". The first hit I received had more to do with American History. Since we are looking for "Spring Holidays Around the World", I moved onto the third item which was called, "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures". After clicking on the source, I found that there was another source that would better suit my search called, "Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays". After clicking on that source, there were many different volumes and countries to choose from. After locating the source, I would more than likely choose the countries that I would be choosing to get traditions, foods, and games from. I would then proceed onto searching each individual country for their traditions, foods, and games or pastimes. There is a drop-down menu where you are able to choose which volume you would like to view from each country. That would be helpful in finding the traditions that are in the spring. 

2. Use Advanced Search to find recently added 2012 and newer titles. Then explore a couple titles and report your findings.

I did an Advanced Search and chose 'Publication Title' or 'Document Title' and I included the years 2012, 2013, & 2014 in the Advanced Search areas. I ended up with 583 results. I sorted them by Publication Date. There aren't any results from 2014 yet. My first hit was, 

 

TOPIC OVERVIEW

Architecture

Human Geography: People and the Environment

Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Sonia Benson. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2013. p666-669. COPYRIGHT 2013 Gale, Cengage Learning   Sara Louise Miller

I clicked on 'Architecture' and it listed an Introduction, Historical Development, a Current Application, and a Bibliography. 
I also took a look at my 2nd hit. It was: 

TOPIC OVERVIEW

City Types,  page(s): 640-643. word count: 1924.

Human Geography : People and the EnvironmentWilliam Arthur Atkins . Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Sonia Benson .  Vol. 2.  Detroit: Gale, 2013. 

A city is a large, permanent center of population organized as a community. The word “city” is derived from the Latin word civitas, which denotes a social body (community) of citizens (cives) that is able to manage its...

It also listed an Introduction, Historical Development, Current Application, and a Bibliography. 

I like how it listed the word count and the pages that the information was found on. 

Common Core Connections
In Lesson 5, on the GVRL home page, click “Education” on the “Subjects” in the left sidebar. Then search all the Education titles at once. Here’s how: in the upper right, search within “Education” for one of the following topics: “critical thinking,” “problem solving,” or “creativity.” Read at least two articles on the topic and discuss how what you read aligns with Common Core.

I searched for "problem solving". The first article that came up was, "Mathematics Learning". I did the same for, "critical thinking". 

I am thinking that it took the phrases 'problem solving' and 'critical thinking' and searched all articles that involved any problem solving and critical thinking actions. This would be great for teachers to keep in touch and up-to-date on recent publications about what they are teaching. Critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity are areas that are touched on again and again throughout the Common Core Standards.