Beyond Google & Wikipedia

The Washington Post interview with Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary at the Agriculture Department, discussing the agency's eight-year-old National Organics Program.

A list of the Environmental Working Group's "dirty dozen" and "clean fifteen"-- most and least pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables.

Newsweek article indicating which conventionally grown items are highest in pesticide contaminants

Hi Rachel, we're having some difficult accessing links that were bookmarked from the ProQuest database. I'm contacting Bank Street to see how we can get into the links. In the meantime, if you don't mind. Could you post a comment here with the DocumentID of the article on ProQuest so others can easily find this resource. Thanks.

Buzzle.com has many links to other articles about organic products, advantages of organic foods, differences between organic and non-organic foods, organic farming, etc...

Article from "Current Health" introducing kids to organic foods

Read a dialogue between two people discussing the pros and cons of choosing organic food. Includes a worksheet for students to fill in different opinions on the pros and cons of eating organic foods.

Hi Leelah, nice job finding and posting resources on Diigo! One issue that I noticed is that you tagged this and some other resources "BWG organic search" instead of "BGWOrganicSearch" (Notice there are no spaces). While this may seem like a minor distinction, the purpose of asking students to use these specific tags is so that anybody in the course can easily find all the resources related to organic foods by simply clicking on a common tag. You can fix the tags by clicking edit for each bookmark. Also, I noticed that you bookmarked several articles about organic food, but I don't see that you bookmarked any general search engines for kids as requested in Assignment 7 - Part 2. Thanks

Another thing I noticed is that because you are using spaces in your tags some of the phrases that you want to tag, for example "pros and cons of organic" are getting split up into several smaller tags. The issue with this is that it creates tags that don't have much meaning, for example "of" or "and". The best way to group a phrase as a single tag is to put quotes around the entire tag, like "pros and cons of organic". Other ways are to put underscores between words, like pros_and_cons_or_organic. And a final way is to not use spaces and to vary the capitalization, like example ProsAndConsOfOrganic.

Article from Vegetarian Times magazine

This is a brief article from Vegetarian Times magazine. It addresses some questions about the benefits of buying organics, which are often more expensive.

This is the kids' version of ask.com, a search engine that I find helpful for directing me to clear, basic resources

How can you efficiently locate a word or words on a web page?

The look of this site and the presence of advertising make me a little cautious about its content.  What do you think about the reliability of this site as a neutral source of scientific information?  

I like that you can refine your search and also that the interface is very similar to Google, so kids will be comfortable with it. You can also limit your search to certain sites such as educational, dictionaries, or government. There is also a pop up word feature to help you take notes as you research.

Simple overview of what organic food means

I'm having trouble accessing this site too. How did you access this site?

Again, I got to this through my school, but I thought sirs was part of proquest and should be available to see.

It seems that ProQuest has a variety of different products so Bank Street may have the main ProQuest database, but not SIRS. I'll ask the librarian.

Overview of organic food, includes links to articles, pro/con issues, and interactive video.

Introduction to organic foods aimed towards teens from a good teen health database.

Formerly known as Clusty.com, this site is helpful when identifying subtopics.

Free tool for uncluttering web pages and filtering out ads and other distractions.

Website of the Organic Alliance

Website of the Organic Alliance

UK-based organic gardening website

This website, from a UK-based not-for-profit, provides practical advice on organic gardening.

This MonkeySee video gives a clear and concise explanation of the USDA standards for labeling food organic.