On the 23rd of february we learned about some encyclopediae.
We browsed through http://www.britannica.com/ . On its homepage, at the we have seven folders and on the left we find seven sections: Histoty & Society, Arts & Entertainment, Travel & Geography, Science & Technology, Featured Video, Britannica Blog and Advocacy for Animals.
Then we have a section with Research Tools where we can:
Browse, Compare Countries, World Atlas, World Data Analyst.
In the Browse section we can scan through Encyclopedic content and other content sources.
Finally, at the bottom we see a Spotlights section where we find special features from the Enciclopedia.
On the right, there is a free 30-day trial of Britannica Online for kids and a section with Selected New & Revised Articles.
The Media Gallery Section is very interesting and reliable.
The wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page .
Its visual lay out is boring, it has heavy articles and it's time consuming. This one is not very good for inside classes and not reliable.
We searched for information about The Suffragettes on both encyclopedia:
http://www.britannica.com/bps/search?query=the+suffragettes Here we have access to many articles on the topic and then to videos and images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suffragettes Here we have a long article with images and some links to investigate about the subject. The article is neither complete nor reliable.
The Canadian Encyclopedia, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=Homepage&Params=A1, is very concise, accurate and it has interactive displays.
CIA the World Fact book http://www.cia.gov/library/publicationtheworld-factbook/
We used this website to search for information on the least known countries which use English as their official language or língua franca:
Belize https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bh.html
Brunei https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bx.html
Kiribati https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kr.html
Nauru https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nr.html
Swaziland https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wz.html
Tuvalu https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tv.html
We got very complete information with spendid pictures of all these remote places.
Good.
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