Learning Express Library

Basic Discovery Challenge

1.  Setting up an account is painless and really easy, so that part was no problem.

2.  Interesting, I've been referring people to this resource for years but haven't ever tried one of the tests.  Only missed one of the 5 questions I answered but the point was that I now understand how it works a little better and will be able to show that to students when they ask.

3.  I picked the "Determining What You Want from Your Career." I could have used that about 30 years ago when I was first trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life.  Now it is interesting to look back and see how to make those decisions based on logic and choices rather than guesswork and luck.

4.  In the search box I put in "fractions" because I know it is a weakness of mine.  The first ebook was Express Review Guides: Fractions, Percentages, & Decimals.  I clicked on "download" and got a PDF of the book, all 256 pages of it!  It's been a long time since I studied this so the pretest was a challenge!


Advanced Challenge

1.  4th Grader would need to be shown: 
          How to set up an account with login and password so as to be able to save their work and come back to work at their own speed
          Elementary School Reading Skills Improvement section, including practice and diagnostic tests, the practice portions will all be very helpful

          How to search for ebooks on reading for 4th grade reading


2.  High school student doing a report on careers would be shown:
          Job Search & Workplace Skills section
          How to search for ebooks on Careers (actual search nets 55 items), if a specific career is being looked at then have that student at that career to the search to narrow down choices. (adding Nurse gets 8 ebooks, and pharmacist gets one book).  One that caught my eye for nursing is the Spanish/English Terms for Nurses.

As usual I'm not doing the Common Core stuff, it is really outside my everyday work.