Research Activity Sheet

Research activity sheet - Planets

Topic

Step 1: Find keywords on your topic

Keywords
1. What do you know about your planet already? List some useful words…
2. Try an encyclopedia –Go to the Virtual Library (use library website and find the link to the Virtual Library on the left.) ID: secondary PW: library
http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2
Try Grolier
WorldBook On-line
www.worldbookonline.com
ID: hallco
Pw: schools
3. Try a Directory to generate keywords
a. Open Directory Project: http://www.dmoz.org/
b. Librarian’s Index
http://lii.org/
c. Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
d. Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net/
Links for
4. Try a Clustering Metasearch engine
a. Clusty www.clusty.com
b. Dogpile www.dogpile.com
c. Quintura http://www.quintura.com/

Step 2: Find books

Try some of the books that are pulled for you.

Finding eBooks: in the Virtual Library

Step 3: Find ARTICLES

Virtual Library ACCESS

Ancaster Library Website

http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2

Virtual Library

http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/services/virtuallibrary/

ID: secondary

Password: library

FIND DATABASES AND ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS HERE!

For Science Topics:

Academic OneFile (scholarly journals)

EBSCO

Facts on file Science Facts

http://www.2facts.com/

ID: waukesha

Pw: media

Step 4: Find articles on the web in Science

Find articles

www.findarticles.com

Infomine

http://infomine.ucr.edu

SCIRUS a free-science encyclopedia/article site.

http://www.scirus.com/

National Science Digital Library

http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/

http://nsdl.org/

Galileo

www.galileo.usg.edu

pw: university

Step 5: Finding Quality Websites

Multimedia Tour of the Planets

http://www.nineplanets.org/

Exploring the planets Gallery

http://www.nasm.si.edu/etp/

NASA Solar System links

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/index.html

Zoom planets

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/

Welcome to the planets site (NASA)

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/index.html

The Solar System in Pictures

http://www.the-solar-system.net/

Views of the Solar System

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm

MERCURY

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/mercury/mercury.html

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/mercury1.htm

SATURN

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/saturn.html

ASTEROID

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm

VENUS

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Space.Science/Solar.System/Pioneer.Venus/Venus.Discoveries

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm

URANUS

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112461/inturanus.html

MARS

http://www.seds.org/~spider/mars/mars.html

NEPTUNE

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/neptune/features.html

JUPITER

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/jupiter_worldbook.html

http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Jupiter/jupiter.php

PLUTO

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/pluto_worldbook.html

For notetaking sheets for your project see the Library website and click on the Research Help button and find notetaking.