The End

The South Dakota Library Challenge is over! The thing that I am the most excited about is that I went through all of these research tools. I never would have gone through them on my own. I’m very pleased with the World Books. In my classroom I spend a lot of time discussing primary sources. With World Book, students can easily find primary sources because they are displayed in their own section. (This will help a lot with the Common Core standards as well.) My goal is to use these in the classroom on a regular basis. I think that if I can train my students to use these for their searches, the same way they use Google, maybe they would learn to expect more reliable information. I have also been thinking that at the beginning of the year they could do a webquest of these online tools. I think it would be a scaled down version of what I have just completed.