I chose "illegal immigration" as a leading issue (note the news this week). In looking at the articles I liked the timeline in the overview plus "find similar" in the subject area. Gives a student lots of places to go and helps narrow the search. Also lots of statistics were available in the research.
In the Curriculum Pathfinders I chose the general topic of Health, narrowed it to "physical fitness" and went to an article on "Understanding Adult Obesity". OK, here's where I got completely sidetracked on the "portion distortion quiz". 20 years ago a cheeseburger was only 333 calories, not it is 590 (no wonder we're getting fat). I found out it takes an hour and a half to work that off. Guess there will be no cheeseburgers in my future!
Speaking of getting sidetracked -- that seems to happen often in looking at all of these databases. One thing leads to another and an hour or two is gone and the vouchers and accounting remains undone. So I'm behind at work and at study.
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Yes, it is easy to get sidetracked in here! It shows that learning can be fun. You pointed out some great things (though I would rather not have known about the cheeseburger). We also like that SIRS Issues Researcher provides a balanced approach so that users can see both sides of an issue. Thanks for your comments.
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