Transcript 7th Grade Research Paper

“Information Seeking Strategies”
&
“Location and Access”
Biography
By Mrs. Fisher
Follow the “Big6”
• Know your project “inside out”
• Brainstorm where to look for
information
• Types of information needed
• Know how to locate & access
“Brainstorm where to look
for information”
As in this example from Art Wolinsky’s book, Internet Power
Research Using the Big6 Approach . . .
Blue Whale Sources
CD ROMS
Web Sites
Movies and
TV Shows
Internet
Discussion
Groups
Fishermen
Environmental
Protection
Agency
Sea World
Magazines
Email Experts
Library
Books
Newspapers
School
Ecology Club
Email
Friends
Determine the types of
information sources needed
?
Library
Resources
Library
Books
Web Sites
Subscription
Databases
eLibrary
Official Web
Sites
Encyclopedias
Other
Print
Resources
Other Online
Resources
Evaluated
Web Sites
Determine the types of
information needed
• And how best to access that info
• What “key words” and phrases to search for
Know how to locate & access
• Do you know how to use the library’s OPAC?
• When you get a book, do you know how to find
the information that you are looking for in the
book?
• Do you know how to use ODIN?
• Do you know how to find the subscription
databases?
• Do you know how to use them?
• Do you know how to conduct good searches?
• Do you know how to evaluate web sites?
A word about search engines . . .
Different search engines to consider:
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Google
Yahoo
Ask
Dogpile
• Grokker
Metacrawler
KartOO
Webcrawler
Good Luck With Your Research!
Let us know how we can assist you.
• Slide #1
Credits
Bio Magazine:
http://www.airlineamb.org/ExternalFiles/biography_cover.tif
Book:
http://www.raremapsandbooks.com/images/sept14biography.jpg
Poster:
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:qYx1yU2LyShZ5M:http://macphilly.com/bio/bio_logo.jpg
• Slide #2
Biography Assignment:
http://z.about.com/d/homeschooling/1/5/b/E/4/biographyprint.png
• Slide #3
Brainstorm Image:
http://minimediaguy.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/tn_brainstorm.jpg
• Slide #4
Blue Whale:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/
1024/whale-shark-with-fish.jpg
• Slide #5
Credits
Female Silhouette
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~batesmillerhistory/webgraphics/femsilhouettelg.g
ifBook
Male Silhouette
http://book-trails.net/tim/storyboards/resources/male_silhouetteSlide
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Slide#6
Girl Reading Book
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:1ElB3qdQ8AnDzM:http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multi
media/img/reading-hi.jpgSlide
• Slide #9
Librarian:
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1802860module7863496photo_librarian.jpg
Works Cited
Wolinsky, Art. Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Approach.
Enslow Publishers, Inc. 2005.