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SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin SEARCH TERMS: Invention TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word SEARCH ENGINE: www.Yahoo.com BEST SITE: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/ben/ben-html/ben4.html This is the best site that we found at yahoo. It included many activities that would help students learn of his different inventions. It is well organized and easy to maneuver through.
SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin SEARCH TERMS: Invention TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word SEARCH ENGINE: www.dogpile.com BEST SITE: http://sln.fi.edu/Franklin/inventor/inventor.html This was the best site found at dogpile. The information was related to the information that we were searching for. It was well organized and easy to read. All of the inventions were highlighted and connected to a link.
SEARCH TOPIC: Ben Franklin SEARCH TERMS: Inventions TYPE OF SEARCH: Key Word SEARCH ENGINE: www.aol.com BEST SITE: http://tlc.ai.org/franklin.htm This was the best site that we found at AOL.com. It included links to other inventions, other works, general recourses, lesson plans, and related literature. The information appeared to be accurate and easy to follow. Students could easily find their way around this site.
A majority of the web sites that came up on all of our searches were unrelated information. However, the ones that we determined to be the best were informative and were well organized. The problem with most of the sites was not that there was no information about Ben Franklin’s inventions, it was that you had to search amoung the sites to find the information. Aol.com actually provided the best web sties for our topic. |