Introduction:
We subscribe to many databases for children. They reside, for the most part, under the Homework subject heading on the Research page. They allow access to encyclopedia’s, country information, videos, timelines, newspapers, television transcripts, diagrams, photos, poetry, science projects, and more. You can access information appropriate to the reading level of the customer and limit by the type of media required. The information could be used in a report or project, or by a teacher in the classroom. Explore them and see if you can find the answers to these questions.
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eLibrary Curriculum (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)
Encyclopedia of Animals (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program
Facts on File Science Online*
MAS Ultra: School Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*
Middle Search Plus (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*
Primary Search (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*
Student Research Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*
Gale Virtual Reference Library*
Science Fair Project Index (and other resources on the Kidspage Homework section)
1) I need a video on photosynthesis. And I need to write a one page paper on it.
Can you help me find articles on polar bears. I need to know everthing! I am in 4th grade. Search again adding a lexile level of 300 – 500. (The child’s teacher needs a science experiment about polar bears.)
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Question 7
At the www.census.gov website I explored until I found a place to enter (asian and native hawaiian and other pacific islander) 77008. The Table said that in 2000 there were 317 Asians, and 13 Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander in the chosen zip code.
The page where I found it said "Main, Data Sets, Data Sets with Quick Tables, Geography, Tables, Results."
The Table was DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics 2000; Data Set Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data; Geographic Area: 5-Digit ZCTA 77008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
May Assignment: Question 6
"Buddhist Law, known here as Falun Gong, was established was established in the early 1990's by Li Hongzhi, a martial-arts master who is now 48. He combined elements of the ancient practice of qigong, involving breathing and meditation exercises said to mobilize energy forces, with concepts drawn from Buddhism and his own theories of spiritual salvation."
Source: New York Times, May 1, 1999; ISSN 1662827; Document 117282697. I chose the decade the 1990's.
The Houston Chronicle database mentions Falun Gong and the Montrose area in Houston in the July 20, 2001 edition, p. 38. It says, "Houstonians who drive past the Chinese Consulate on Montrose Boulevard will likely see a platoon of people in yellow t-shirts. Exercising or meditating, the people are calmly calling attention to the Chinese government's persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement."
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May Assignment: Question 5
The connectivity among the subjects rice, Japan and Texas are explained in this Handbook of Texas article.
RICE CULTURE. The Texas rice industry owes its origins to the introduction of rice (Oryza sativa) seed from Madagascar to the Carolina colonies about 1685. Production, milling, and marketing flourished in South Carolina and Georgia for the next 200 years. Although there was early domestic cultivation of rice in Louisiana and Texas, commercial rice production began in Louisiana shortly before the Civil Warqv and in the 1880s spread rapidly through the coastal prairies of southwest Louisiana into southeast Texas. Arkansas, California, Louisiana, and Texas now produce 90 percent of the American rice crop, with lesser production along the Mississippi River in Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The earliest form of rice cultivation in Texas involved essentially pioneering agriculture. Farmers plowed small plots with oxen, planted seed by hand, depended on rainfall for cultivation, and harvested with hand sickles. Milling was with a crude mortar and pestle. Consumption was strictly local. Considerable acreages of rice were grown in southeast Texas as early as 1853 by William Goyensqv and in Beaumont in 1863 by David French. The latter is often considered the first major rice farmer in Texas. Modern commercial production in Texas derived largely from the completion of the southern transcontinental railroad in 1883 and its acquisition by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1885, coupled with the availability of cheap land on the coastal prairies, the introduction of modern rice mills, and an influx of immigrants from Louisiana and from the grain producing areas of the Midwest. The latter brought with them combines and mechanized agriculture. Pumps, canals, modern irrigation systems, and improved varieties contributed to expanded production. Edgar Carruthers, Louis Bordages, and Dan Wingate produced the state's first large commercial crop of rice on a 200-acre farm near Beaumont in 1886. They shipped their crop by rail to New Orleans for milling. In 1891 Joseph E. Broussardqv established the first rice irrigation and canal system in the state, and the following year he added rice milling machinery to an existing gristmill, thus initiating rice milling in Texas and paving the way for the rapid expansion of production. Texas farmers planted 234,000 acres of rice in 1903 compared to Louisiana's 376,000 acres. The two states then produced 99 percent of the total rice crop, with production having virtually ceased in South Carolina and Georgia.
An important event in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast rice industry was the introduction of seed imported from Japan in 1904. Seed rice had previously come from Honduras or the Carolinas. At the invitation of the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad, Japanese farmers were brought to Texas to advise local farmers on rice production, bringing with them seed as a gift from the emperor of Japan. The first three years' harvest, which produced an average of thirty-four barrels an acre compared with an average of eighteen to twenty barrels from native rice seed, was sold as seed to Louisiana and Texas farmers. C. J. Knapp, founder of the United States agricultural agent system, helped to overcome government regulation to bring seed rice into the country. Japanese rice production began at Webster in Harris County under the direction of Seito Saibara,qv his family, and thirty original colonists. The Saibara family has been credited with establishing the Gulf Coast rice industry.
So rice was grown in Texas as early as 1853. Seito Saibara began Japanese rice production in Webster. This was about 1903. At the same time in Terry, Texas another production site was begun by Kitchimatsu Kishi. In the 1020's his son played halfback at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (now Texas A & M). This pastoral beginning was not as auspicious througout the 20's and 30's. When the Japanese were interned in Texas in the 40's one of the few people who stayed after the war was Isamu Namaguchi who retired to Austin and designed the Japanese Garden in Zilker Park.
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May Assignment-Question 4
A. Asian American Scientists
1.Meena Alexander
2.Ha Jin
3.Shouhua Qi
4.Sara Suleri
5.T. Min-Ha Trinh
Sentence: Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad India and her father was a scientist but her talent as a writer is her claim to fame.
B. Asian American Journalists
1.Leslie Chang
2.James Hattori
3.Dith Pran
4.Trishia Toyota
5.Helen Zia
Sentence: Trishia Toyota is a Japanese-American broadcast journalist in the Southern California area who founded the Asian American Journalist Association with Bill Sing in 1981.
C. Asian American Fashion Designer
Kim, Eugenia (American fashion designer, 1974-)
Natori, Josie (American fashion designer, 1947-)
Simmons, Kimora Lee (American fashion designer, 1975-)
Sui, Anna (American fashion designer, c. 1955-)
Wang, Vera (American fashion designer, 1949-)
Sentence: Vera Wang is a Chinese American fashion designer who was promoted at Vogue to be the youngest fashion editor ever in 1971 and who carved a niche in wedding gowns with a contemporary style.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Question 3 May Assignment
Tracks from the album, Music of the Shakuhachi (FW04218) can be heard on the HPL database "Smithsonian Global Sound." The database offers excerpts from cultures all around the world as well. The performer is Yasuda Sinpu. This simple search began with the Smithsonian database where I typed in the title of the piece listed and it came up right away.
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May Assignments-Question 2
1. asiasociety.org seemed likely to try after trying askasia.org unsuccessfully. I searched the phrase in the search field but it did not help. So I clicked on Calendar and typed in the search phrase.
2. reference to a past exhibition of it surfaced
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Question 1 May Assignment-more
The Texas chapter is in Houston on 4605 Post Oak Place, Ste. 205. They serve as a forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year.
Our Sites - - - - - - - - Asia Society AsiaSource AsiaFood AsiaSocietyMuseum InternationalEd AskAsia
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Speeches Interviews Podcasts Publications Art Collection For Educators
Membership Patron Groups Special Events Corporate
New York HeadquartersNorthern CaliforniaSouthern CaliforniaTexasWashington, DCAustralAsiaHong KongKoreaIndiaPhilippinesShanghai
Asia Society Texas Center
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Discover Asia without leaving Texas! Asia Society Texas Center is your passport to better understanding of the more than 30 countries that comprise Asia.
Since 1979, Asia Society Texas Center has served as a forum for viewpoints and discussions on Asia-related topics, offering more than 100 programs each year. These range from the topical and newsworthy—Asian economic forums, a post-tsunami first-hand USAID report, discussions of world health issues, or lectures on Asian border struggle—to the cultural and just plain fun – art exhibits and salons, "tastes of Asia" dinners, book signings and readings, dragon boat racing, and the annual Tiger Ball. Programming is provided each year in part by grants from generous foundations, the business community and individuals, largely through the Annual Fund campaign.
Our Programs include:
Arts and Culture Business and Policy Education Health and Environment
For more information on our upcoming programs, click here.
Read Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer's Remarks to the Asia Society Texas Center (Oct. 5, 2007)
To view our latest Newsletter, click here.
For a map to our office, click here
As one of ten Asia Society regional centers dotting the globe from New York to Mumbai, the Texas Center is located in Houston, Texas—one of America's fastest-growing international port cities and headquarters to an increasing number of corporations with business interests in Asia. Financially self-supporting, Asia Society Texas Center currently is in the midst of a $40 million building campaign that will create a world-class headquarters, destination and education space to be located in the Museum District (click here for map of location). Groundbreaking will take place in 2008, with formal dedication projected in 2010. Designed by internationally known architect Yoshio Taniguchi, this Texas Center has been conceived as a place to showcase "all things Asian" and will include meeting and educational rooms, a multi-use theatre, exhibition gallery, gardens, reception spaces, and a tea room. Membership in Asia Society Texas Center is for both the specialist and the simply curious. Each program provides a chance for members to enhance their knowledge, exchange views and network with others who share that interest in Asia, whether in business, public education, film, politics, history, travel or other areas. As a member of Asia Society Texas Center, you also can enjoy reciprocal privileges throughout Asia Society's international network.
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1-Homework; Facts on File Science Online; Advanced Search; search photosynthesis, limit by Animations and videos; 4 hits of 2-4 minutes. Then I went to the Basic Search and got 392 hits. They were divided by Topics, Images-including videos, Experiments, Biographies, and News articles. The articles tend to be very detailed but one on the second screen is basic enough for a one page paper-Introduction to plants and plant nutrition.
2-Homework; Primary Search; search polar bears, full text; 137 hits; adding lexile level 300-500 gets only 8 hits; there's a project but it's too easy for a 4th grader. I looked at several databases but didn't find a polar bear science experiment.
Homework; Country Studies/Area Handbooks; Search Syria, includes a bibliography but the sources are old. Then I went to eLibrary; Search syria, after 1/1/2004, middle reading level; hits- 182 newspapers, 31 magazines, 1 map, 14 pictures, 16 tv/radio transcripts; also lists other common topics to search.
4- I couldn't finish this in 1/2 hour. Homework; Litfinder; Advanced search; Reference search boa, kids, munched in works text, AND; hits 3 stories but none seem correct; switched children for kids-didn't help; search only poem and got tons so gave up.
1) I need a video on photosynthesis. And I need to write a one page paper on it.
A: Facts on File: Science Online database. Choose biology under subjects and keyword search photosynthesis, choose Images, Videos, and Animations tab. Has several illustrations, diagrams, and videos to choose from. For the paper tons of sources are available. Can stay in Facts on File: Science Online or use any of the online encyclopedias we subscribe to, books in the catalogue, science databases, and google searches.
2) It’s Polar Bear Day at the Library!
Can you help me find articles on polar bears. I need to know everthing! I am in 4th grade. Search again adding a lexile level of 300 – 500. (The child’s teacher needs a science experiment about polar bears.)
A: Kids search and Encyclopedia of Animals. Don’t know how to search articles with lexile numbers just books. Used catalogue to get ideas for science experiments that involve polar bears and global warming.
3) I am writing a report about Syria. I need at least 5 different sources and I am in 8th grade.
A: Country studies, Student Research Center, Britannica Online, Wikipedia, and Gale Virtual Reference Library. (CountryWatch.com and CountryReports.org are two great websites but require a paid subscription.)
4) There is a story or maybe a poem about a boa for kids. Do you have it? I think someone is being munched on in it.
A: Off the top of my head I know there is one by Shel Silverstein. Pretending I don’t, tried a catalogue search using range of keywords but got nothing. With enough time could google search for poem and discover author or title or book it came in.
#1 Video on photosynthesis
I went to the Facts on File database. I searched for "photosynthesis" in the main search box at the top of the page. I then scrolled down until I saw the return that was designated as containing a video.
http://0-www.fofweb.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org/Science/default.asp?ItemID=WE40
The link contained a video about plant cells and photosynthesis.
#2 Find articles on polar bears
The Encyclopedia of Animals only had one article about polar bear. The Gale Virtual Reference Library had a few articles that contained information about polar bears, yet no article specifically telling me a lot of information about the polar bear. The elibrary curriculum gave me a little more information. When I searched for polar bears it gave me alternate subjects to browse, and there was one about polar bears which was pretty helpful with a lot of articles.
Science >> Life Sciences (Biology) >> Animal Sciences (Zoology) >> Animals by Familiar Name >> Mammals >> Bears (Ursines) >> Polar >> Characteristics & Behavior
That was the path of subject headings taken to get specifically to the information that I found.
I went through the e curriculum, through the science experiments page, found the list of different sites and found one that had experiments on animals... Finally I was able to track down one lonely project on this page
http://www.juliantrubin.com/zoologyprojects.html
that had wooly bears in the project.
The student research center had a search function in the advanced search that allowed you to search by lexile number.
#3 Syria report, 5 sources
I went to the Gale Reference Center. I searched for Syria, then narrowed on the left hand side to "country overview." There were 3 different sources that were titled "Syria."
Syria. Michaelle Browers.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 3: Countries: M-Z. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p418-423.
Syria. Isaiah Gafni, Eliyahu Ashtor, Oded Tavor, Judy Feld Carr, and Moshe Ma'oz.
Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 19. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. p388-397.
Syria.
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Vol. 9. 5th ed. Detroit: UXL, 2007. p127-140.
Then I went to infotrac onefile to get a couple of magazine articles. I searched for Syria then limited to cover stories.
Behind Islamic terror: Syria and Iran are scorned in much of the Western world for supporting terrorism, but neither one is the puppeteer directing the worldwide terror network--Russia is.(TERRORISM)(Cover story).William F. Jasper.
The New American 23.18 (Sept 3, 2007): p10(6). (3372 words)
The secret state: authoritarian and anti-western, Syria stands alongside Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas in defying US ambitions for the Middle East. But a UN report on the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, due out this month, could bring the regime to its knees. Patrick Seale on the linchpin to the battle for a region in turmoil.(Cover story).Patrick Seale.
New Statesman (1996) 135.4795 (June 5, 2006): p22(3). (1489 words)
I went to Litfinder after trying a couple other databases. I entered "boa constrictor," without the quotations, as my search terms. That returned 18 items. The second one I clicked on was Shel Silverstein's "Boa Constrictor". This is a poem about someone being eaten, by a boa constrictor presumably.
I went to Gale Virtual Reference to define and identify two regions of Alpine Tundra. I just searched for "alpine tundra." This gave me a couple of returns, the second of which was titled " Defining Arctic and Alpine Tundra." This seemed to be what I needed. Alpine tundra is the mountain area above the tree line. It features cold climate, little rain and short growing seasons. Alpine tundras exist in the Himalayas and the Alps.
Juvie Resources
I found the database Facts on File Science Online had a clickable tag for videos. The search term I used was photosynthesis and there were more than one. Also included were essays on photosynthesis from which a child could glean a one-page paper.
Juvie Resources Question #2
Found polar bear info for young readers in more than one database, however, in Info Trac OneFile there is a simple science experiment with ploar bears. There was another through Kid's Search.
Primary Search contains the lexile reading levels.
Juvie Reference-Question #3
Syria, 5 8th grade sources
a. Gale Virtual Reference Library (simple search)
b. Country Studies/Area Handbooks
c. InfoTrac OneFile
d. Student Research Center
e. MAS Ultra
Kids Resources Question #4
Find poem about boa constrictor in Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends," page 45.
I tried several ways with LitFinder until I simply typed in "poem boa constrictor."
Kid's Resources - Alpine Tundra
Alpine Tundra as defined in Facts on File Science Online is the grassline above the tree line on mountain ranges.
Two regions that would be examples are parts of Scotland and of the western Himalayas.
1) I need a video on photosynthesis. And I need to write a one page paper on it.
I went to Facts of File Science. typed in 'Photosynthesis" in search box, then clicked on the image tab and picked video from all the options.
2) It’s Polar Bear Day at the Library!
Can you help me find articles on polar bears. I need to know everthing! I am in 4th grade. Search again adding a lexile level of 300 – 500. (The child’s teacher needs a science experiment about polar bears.) Went to MAS Ultra - School Edition , but lexile level starts at 850. Used Encyclopedia of Animals (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program and the level seemed for a 4th grader. Lexile level wasn't provided. Used Student Research Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*, which allows me to specifiy the Lexile level and select newpaper and magazine articles and books and encyclopedias. Even though I selected "full text" most results were citations (like one from Field and Stream).
3) I am writing a report about Syria. I need at least 5 different sources and I am in 8th grade.
Used Country Studies/Area Handbooks, went to the drop down box Choose a Country Study and choose Syria.
Used Kids Search (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)* Selected Geography, typed in Syria and found 57 results, 52 are newspaper articles. This shold fill all 5 sources needed.
Used Middle Search Plus (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program)*, typed in Syria, found one good article from "Our World". This shold fill all 5 sources needed.
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