Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
Online Access:

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Available to the TWU community.

Teacher's Guide:

Teacher's Guide | Other Guides

Tutorials:

Searchasaurus Tutorial (runtime 3.50 min)| (PowerPoint, 1.10 mb)

Titles Included: American Heritage Children's Dictionary, EBSCO Animals, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and Professional Development Collection.
Subject Area: Elementary school
Resource Type: Research tool
Description:

Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Students will be riveted by the colorful, animated interface, complete with erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide, as they gather information on a wide range of topics. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.

Also included is an Image Collection contains over 235,000 dynamic and educational images in diverse areas from quality licensed image sources. Subject covered in Image Collection include history, politics, animals, topical news photos, and science related photos, as well as maps, cityscapes, landmarks and entertainment.

Younger researchers may also utilize the Kids Search interface.

This database is part of the Multi-Sector Bundle.

Formats Included: Encyclopedia, dictionary, journal articles
Interface: EBSCOhost
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