Current Events in Science

6th Grade Science students used the EBSCO online data base, (to which Nido subscribes) to research about any current event in Science that interested them. The students practiced choosing appropriate keywords and narrowing down their topic with a directory search. The students also searched by the lexile scores of the articles to eliminate documents that were beyond their reading level. Once they had found an article they liked, the 6th Graders used Word to write a short summary that they later presented to the class.