For our new habit of a scholar, Varied Resources, we learned that scholars use a variety of resources to find information. We discussed how scholars have to make decisions about which resource is the best choice for a particular type of information. For example, dictionaries and thesauruses can be great resources to help us learn new words, but the won't tell us much information about fossils. Interviewing a person who experienced an important event can give us great first person reporting, but an interview might not be the best resource to learn about synonyms. The internet is an excellent resource for learning about current events, such as on Groundhog's day we were able to watch a video of the event that happened just a few hours earlier all the way across the country, but the internet has some information that might not always be accurate. The big idea that we took away from our discussion of Varied Resources is that different resources are used at different times and scholars need to be comfortable choosing the right resource for their question.
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