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Thing 8 Sweetsearch

This is awesome. I just finished working on genetic disorders with three 7th grade classes. It was very difficult for them to find out what chromosome was responsibile for the disease/disorder. Many sites we found were to advanced for them and they had to read through many pages before finding their answer.  I tried finding chromosome numbers and disorders on Sweetsearch and it made my day. It makes researching so much easier. Here is the link that I added to my path finder: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosomes We had been using the NIH site but it is difficult to navigate, but sweetsearch made it easy for me to find a good site for the kids. Next week I we are doing drug research so I am planning on introducing sweetsearch to my students.

I took a brief look at Finding Dulcinea  which has awesome information about how to search the web. Once I spend some more time in it I WILL WRITE MORE ABOUT IT.