Intro to CultureGramsProfessional Development

© Jo Davidsmeyer 2012

Accessing Sarasota Country eResources

O Sarasota country provides all students, teachers, and parents free access to 25 online databases.

O To access the databases go to www.sarasota.k12.fl.us, at the bottom of the page, under Quicklinks → Students, select Resources

Select the appropriate resource for your class:• K-5

elementary• Middle

School• High School

For this demo, we’ve selected Middle School

Click on CultureGrams, if accessing from home, use the username/password

“sarasota”

You select the age-appropriate version for your students. For this demo, we are using the World Edition.

Also note on the bottom of the page, the links to Training Resources,Teaching Activities PDF, Curriculum Standards PDF. Please visit these links for support information.

You can select a country by clicking on the world map or entering it in the drop-down

box

(NOTE: Here I would walk teachers through the various features of the database, answering questions as they come up)

Take a few minutes to step through the database on your

own computer. When done for this session, please complete

the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LMRBXLX