Sophia: Research Sources

This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of websites for research sources. It gives the pros and cons to using websites as sources and discusses the need to evaluate websites and what to look for.

This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...

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...

This slideshow lesson focuses on using libraries and librarians as research sources. It explains what makes them excellent sources of information because of expertise and reference materials available; it also lists the cons of using...

This slideshow lesson focuses on mining bibliographies, or searching other bibliography pages on your topic to locate potential sources for your own research. It discusses the pros and cons of mining bibliographies.

This lesson discusses using research databases to conduct research.

A nine-slide presentation discussing the pros and cons of books being used during the process of gathering research.

This lesson discusses conducting primary research for a research topic.

This lesson discusses using reference materials as research resources.

This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...