Teacher Tools / Learning
Activities
Learning Activities are short, designed for about ten minutes of student
time on task. Each relates to an Ohio Academic Content Standard indicator statement and is
based on an essential question. A series of search steps uses one of INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources.
EBSCOhost | Literature
Online from Chadyck-Healey | NewsBank Newspapers | Oxford Reference Online | SIRS Discoverer
 EBSCOhost delivers
articles from more than 6,000 magazines and newspapers, most in full text, from children's
magazines to professional research. Different interfaces make EBSCOhost easy to
use for almost all researchers. The resource includes a database of pictures and an
animals encyclopedia. The Professional Development Collection consists of almost
550 education journals.
|
Apples (Grade 3) [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs] Searchasaurus
interface |
|
Counting to 10 (Kindergarten)
[MS Word
OR PDF
1 pg] Searchasaurus interface |
|
Formulas for Perimeter and Area of a
Rectangle (Grade 5) [MS Word
OR PDF
1 pg] Kids Search interface |
|
Buying vs. Leasing a Car
(Grades 9-12) [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs] Student
Reference Center Grades 9-12 interface |
|
Thanksgiving
(PreKindergarten) [MS Word
OR PDF
1 pg] Searchasaurus interface |
|
Types of Governments (Grade
6) [MS Word
OR PDF 1 pg] Student
Research Center Grades 6-8 interface |
 Literature
Online from Chadwyck-Healey contains full-text, searchable
works available online to supplement a library's print collections. Poetry, drama and
fiction are included. The search engine allows searches across all 15 collections.
|
Langston Hughes Poetry (Grade 10) [MS Word
OR PDF
2 pgs] |
 NewsBank Newspapers provides a
collection of 30 full-text newspapers available online; more than 15 titles are Ohio
publications. Several Special Reports focus on current topics by gathering
articles and images from additional sources.
|
Personal Finance (Grades
9-12) [MS Word
OR PDF 2
pgs] |
 Oxford
Reference Online: The Premium Collection contains more than 130 complete
reference titles, fully indexed and cross-searchable, from a wide range of disciplines, as
well as Web sites and timelines.
 SIRS
Discoverer provides a database of full-text magazine and newspaper
articles for the young researcher. Students can read stories, learn about important
people, find fun projects to do, use maps and pictures, find country and state facts, and
much more. There's even a dictionary and a thesaurus.
|
Butterflies (Kindergarten) [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs] |
|
Butterfly Life Cycle (Grade
3) [MS
Word OR PDF 1
pg] |
|
Famous Scientists (Grade 6) [MS Word
OR PDF
1 pg] |
|
Living vs. Pretend
(Kindergarten) [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs] |
|
Turtles (Grade 1) [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs] |
Share your INFOhio Electronic Resources support materials. INFOhio welcomes materials
from users which support the use and integration of the Electronic Resources available
through INFOhio to students and educators across the state. Use our online submission form to begin the
peer-review process. |
