Gale Virtual Reference Library

1. Clicked on Nation & World and came up with 131 articles most of them in Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays. Examples were Ching Ming Festival in China held April 5 or 6. Serve cold food such as Rice and Noodles. Also have kite flying contests. Another one was Wielkanoc Easter celebrated in Poland. Mentioned Easter bread (Babka) and Lenten soup (Postna zupa) and even gave the recipes. Also found the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World which might be helpful.  Like the Search Within Publication feature. Seems to me this is an additional source to World Book.


2. I did an Advanced Search and sorted by Publication date after 2011. Did a good job searching the index.


Common Core:

I read Technology Education from the Encyclopedia of Education. It stressed teaching technology education to foster competence in problem solving and solution design.
Also read Classroom Questions from the same source which talked about Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation which are all important to Common Core.

Reading Standards for Informational Text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Grades 9-10

#8  Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

Using Gale choose two different articles and using the criteria write a paper critiquing the articles.