This section provides you with strategies for overcoming these challenges and choosing and using the software in this kit to maximize your research experience on the Internet. Without search strategies, students could wander for a long time without finding anything of value. Teach your students how to use search engines and how to browse by modeling search techniques and by having them use the tutorials on Internet, the City. Scholastic NetWork is an online subscription service that comes with this kit. You sign onto the network, type in your user name and password, and then have full access to all its resources which include curriculum areas for teachers and students, places to find partners in collaboration and a searchable topic database.
Links go right out onto the Internet.
Electric Library is the second online subscription service in the kit. You will be assigned a user name and password which you type in each time you sign on. It provides a searchable library of excellent reference sources for student research. It too, provides links out to the Internet and saves lots of time. Encarta Deluxe is a CD encyclopedia which is searchable by keywords.