Finding the Topic (10 Points 1 Point for Each Question)

Finding the Topic (10 Points 1 Point for Each Question)

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Name: ______

Finding the Topic (10 points—1 point for each question)

Go to and go to the Integrated Science webpage from there go to the Science Vacation webpage via the link at the bottom of the Integrated Science webpage.

  1. What is the web address (URL) for Librarians Internet Index? ______
  2. What area of science did you choose? ______
  3. What was the next subtopic you chose? ______
  4. What was the following subtopic you chose? ______
  5. Did you visit High School Ace? YES or NO
  6. If you did visit this site, what information did you find for your topic selection? ______
  7. Did you visit Kids Click!? YES or NO
  8. If yes, what information did you find for your topic selection? ______
  9. Did you visit your textbook’s website? YES or NO

If yes, what information did you find for your topic selection?______

  1. What was your final topic choice? ______

Get your teacher’s initials or send an email to get your topic approved. If via email, print and attach email to this document. Teacher’s initials ______

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STEP 2. Information Seeking Strategies: (25 points)

While looking at these sources be sure to get complete information that you will need in order to cite your sources in your presentation. My research question is : ______I wish to link the following words together in my searches ______and I wish to exclude the following words ______. (5 points)

The login for InfOhio is infohio (all lowercase) and the password is ______(again all lowercase).

InfOhio Resources: (5 points)

Criteria / Britannica Online / Access Science / EBSCOhost / American National Biography
Keywords I typed into the search
Number of results
% of useful results on the first two pages
Type of information found

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Gateways: (5 points)

Criteria / Awesome Library: K-12 Educational Dictionary / Education World / Gateway to Education Materials (GEM)
Keywords I typed into the search
Number of results
% of useful results on the first two pages
Type of information found
Other useful sites I found from this Gateway.

Images: (5 points)

Criteria / Pics4Learning / Smithsonian Photo Archive / NASA Digital Images
Keywords I typed into the search
Number of results
% of useful results on the first two pages
List description of images that may be useful

Meta-Search Tools: (5 points)

Criteria / Clusty / IxQuick Remote Search / Vivisimo
Keywords I typed into the search
Number of results
% of useful results on the first two pages
Type of information found
What search engines did you find most of your relevant results came from?

Is your searching complete? Circle YES or NO If not, what search strategies will you use for rest of your search quest? ______