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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Databases, Electronic Sources, and Print Sources

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
How to access electronic sources and databases in addition to print sources and list all in a working bibliography.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Research Institute: Getty Vocabularies

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides terminology for art, architecture, materila culture, and bibliographical information in order to help catalogers and researchers enhance databases and websites.
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Other

Roller Coaster Database: Worldwide Roller Coaster Data

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive research database with data on over 6,300 roller coasters all over the planet.
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Harvard University

Harvard Graduate School of Education: Research for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Research database for educators. Search for educational topics, including standardized testing, arts in schools, or literacy and find current research and information regarding the issue.
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Careers New Zealand

Careers Nz: Market Researcher

For Students 9th - 10th
Very descriptive overview of the job of a market researcher. Read about the job, skills needed, education needed, working conditions, and much more.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Sources: Online Research Databases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses using research databases to conduct research.
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International Union of Crystallography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to journals, databases, research, commissions, etc. on the subject of Crystallography.
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Catalogs and Search Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides Stanford University catalog collections, as well as databases and search tools.
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Other

The Civil War Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Anything that one might need to research or understand the American Civil War can be found on this huge web site! Photo and text database, official records and maps, battles, research pages, and much more can be found in this expansive...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

For Students 9th - 10th
During the International Polar Year, scientists descended on the Arctic and the Antarctic in droves. While there, they documented their experiences and research work. That rich database of information, covering November 2007 to October...
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Library of Congress

Loc: How to Find a Novel,etc. Without Knowing Its Title or Author

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this guide to help identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase. Trusted databases, library catalogs, and more...
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NOAA

Noaa: National Oceanographic Data Center: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanographic Data Center archives and provides public access to global oceanographic and coastal data, products, and information. Fantastic research data.
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Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: Artifact Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
A database of artifacts and articles related to Texas and its history. The artifacts are in different museums, or you can restrict your search to the Bullock Museum. You can search by time period from BCE to the present day, and by type...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Other

Tennessee and the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
An extended website that contains links to online databases, service records, memorial rolls, cemetery listings, pension applications for Tennessee Veterans, and more.
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Other

Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to facilitate efforts by people of Hispanic descent to trace their roots and family trees, this research center maintains a database called The Great New Mexico Pedigree Database where they have combined different sources of...
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Other

Massachusetts Civil War: Massachusetts Civil War Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A website containing a database which allows research into individuals and regiments from Massachusetts who fought in the Civil War.
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National Institutes of Health

U.s. National Library of Medicine: Pub Med Online Training

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to gain access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Florida Museum of Natural History gives the current events, information about the museum, exhibits and public programs, research and collections, links, etc. to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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Other

Idea: Debatabase

For Students 9th - 10th
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
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Other

Age of dinosaurs.com

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a useful site for students doing research for a project, although it does have some distracting ads. There is an ABC list of dinosaurs, a frequently asked questions section, dinosaur evolution charts, and more. Some areas of the...
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Duke University

Duke Libraries: Citing Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource contains the basic citation information for articles from journals, articles from books, articles from databases, books, newspapers, government publications, and web sites. Students can click on one of theses publications...
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Other

University of Idaho: Information Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module focuses on Information Literacy including internet basics, locating, evaluating, sharing, and documenting information.

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