The Britannica Elementary provided a limited amount of information about my search topic... oh yeah... can you guess what it is?
You are soooo smart... It is the common wombat (thanks to the little hint in the title). Did you know that they live in hilly woodland areas in Australia? Yes, they actually do.
Anyway, there were also limited pictures. For more advanced students or older elementary students, I would suggest the Britannica Middle School Edition of the site. To change from the Elementary version of the Britannica site to the Middle School version, you actually click on the Britannica School Edition part of the heading (which I didn't know and got really frustrated and had to exit out of MARVEL! and yadda yadda yadda... maybe the students will be more intuitive than I was...)
The Middle School addition had more pictures to choose from and more detailed information. Did you also know that the common wombat also lives in Tasmania? The information in the Middle School edition was also more clumped together and did not have as many headings to help sort out the information, which could make it harder for younger students to find specific information. There were also more websites and articles available in the Middle School edition versus the Elementary edition.
As expected, the High School edition is chock full of information. The side bar has Journals & Magazines, Primary Sources & E-books, the Web's Best Sites, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. I think the websites and the journals and magazines would be of greater interest to high school students.
Students will find saving information in the Workspace by Project extremely helpful. They can access the information at home and school or any where, so there will be no more excuses that they could not complete their research :)
I think Britannica is one of the resources that students can utilize to learn more information about their topics of interest.
