Proquest

1. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.

I did a basic search on geothermal heat pumps. The number of results I received was a bit overwhelming. I was able to sort the result to find the newest articles first. I could also limit the type of results I received from just viewing magazine articles to reports. I could even view articles only written in a specific country. I found that by even doing a basic search you have a wide variety of options to help you find what you needed.

1.a. See what your Challenge cohort is discovering. Choose at least one other Challenge blog, read that person's post (about this or a previous lesson), and comment on it. You may like to check each other's blogs throughout the Challenge as you learn together.

I looked at Journey Library's blog posting for Proquest. It looks like we discovered many of the same things. Even though we searched different topics we both came up with a large number of results. I guess, this speaks to the size and breath of the Proquest database!


2. Click the Publications tab at the top of the page. You will see an alphabetical list of the periodicals indexed in Proquest and the years included. Notice that this list is "Full text only." Do a search for a journal in your profession by typing a title or keyword in the search box. Report your findings and observations.

I discovered that the search would be very limiting if you didn't know the title of the journal you were searching for. You also have to be very careful with your use of singular and plural. I searched public library and used "in publication summary" and received 0 results but by switching library to libraries i was able to find two journals with full text articles in this database.

In your blog post, name the standard and briefly and specifically describe the lesson you will teach using ProQuest to help meet the standard.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

I would have students research the topic of geothermal as an alternative heating and cooling source. They would need to use bother scholarly sources as well as magazines and newspapers. Most articles I found talked about more than just geothermal. Students would need to come using geothermal to one other source. This would require students to use skills to filter through articles that may not be relevant to their topic but contain information about the topic.