Continuing Your Research
Today's Goal(s):
- Understand stages of research
- Search for initial information on my topic.
- Learn how to and begin to use Noodletools
- Cite one article from pre-search using Noodletools
Guiding Question(s):
- What will we be doing in class this week?
- Where do I begin my research?
- How do use Noodletools to begin to organize my initial research?
Search eLibrary Using Keywords
You can search eLibrary using the search box at the top.
Type in search words:
Using Topic Pages in eLibrary
eLibrary has topic pages you can use.
1.) Click on Research Topics > History
2.) Based on your topic, choose the appropriate place:
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
- World
3.) Based on your topic, choose the appropriate time period:
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Civil War
- Colonial
- Discovery
- Post-colonial
- Reconstruction
4.) Search for your topic - there is the option to sort from A to Z in the upper right corner.
Collecting Information About Your History Fair Topic
| When? |
What time period did a person live or an event take place? What is the specific year(s) or span of time? Is there a name for this period in history (Industrial Age, Roaring Twenties, the Sixties)? |
| Who? |
Who are the people involved? Is your topic about a specific person? Is there a specific person who is important to the event you are researching? List any additional important people who were significant to the topic you are researching: |
| Where |
Where did your topic take place? If your History Fair topic is about a specific person, where did that person grow up? Live as an adult? Where did the significant events in that person’s life take place? List the event and the place. Where did the important events of your History Fair Topic take place? List any additional places that were significant to your topic and why they were significant? |
| What? |
What have you learned about your topic? What are the important details of your person's life or an event? List three important things you learned about your History Fair topic: |
| Why? |
Why is your topic important? Why is this person or event important to history? Why do people consider this person or event significant? |
| How? |
How does this person or event connect to the theme Breaking Barriers? What were the barriers that were broken (social, racial, cultural, economic)? How did this person or event break barriers? How did society play a role in how and why this barrier existed? |