SIRS® Standards Search

December 2005

SIRS Standards Search

• Finds content aligned to state and national standards

• Covers all core curricula subjects• Covers most states • Available in:

– SIRS Researcher – SIRS Discoverer– SIRS Knowledge Source® (SKS)

SIRS Standards Search Benefits

• Helps educators save time during the lesson planning process

• Provides students targeted, on-task information

• Ensures library resources are aligned directly to learning benchmarks

• Provides schools a vast pool of reliable, relevant content to augment existing curriculum

Main Search• Launch state and

national standards searches directly from SIRS

• Access at Educators’ Resources, available at the top of every SIRS page

Standards Search

Standards Search Selection

Select the State

Then, Select the Subject Standard

Standards Search Selection

• Review the standards related to the subject

• Use the navigational “twisty” to drill deeper into a content standard– In this example, The

Nature of Matter, A.2., has further benchmarks for grades 6-8 and 9-12

Standards Search Selection

• At the benchmark level click See resources to begin matching SIRS content– In this example, The

Nature of Matter, A.2., grades 9-12, has six related benchmarks. We’ve chosen SC.A.2.4.3.

Subject Alignment

• SIRS queries the benchmark against the SIRS subject index

• Results display all subjects related to the benchmark– In this example,

subjects related to benchmark SC.A.2.4.3. include standard model (nuclear physics), matter, and antimatter

Document Results

• Topics lead to related articles, government documents, websites, multimedia sources, and subjects– In this example, we

selected subject: Antimatter

• Dynamic searches ensure educators can find updated content as new documents are added to SIRS

Sample Documents

Websites, multimedia, and full text articles

SIRS Standards Search

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