SIRS Issues Researcher

- Select a leading issue and discuss the information located there, noting the topic overview, research tools, and articles.

Cellular telephones is the leading issue chosen.  Topic overview dealt with education policy.  There is a Pro and Con essential questions section, and a link for each question takes you to articles in support of each side.  You can narrow your results to newspapers, magazines, viewpoints, reference, graphic and multimedia, and WebSelect sites.  A link for citations is shown.  Perspectives, Global Impact, and statistics charts are an option.  Terms to Know and Additional Resources can also be chosen.  A list of related articales is shown.  You can email, share and print this information.


- Select "Curriculum "Pathfinders".  Pick your favorite subject and duscuss the information located there. 

So many topics are covered! I chose "Music" in the Fine Arts subject.  All types of music were listed and numerous articles, informative graphics, podcasts, websites, exhibits were available to click.  When I clicked on the first "article", hundreds of genres were shown in a very cool graphic.  You could then click on one of the genres and listen to an example!  So cool!!