Sedgwick Library Media Center and Learning Commons

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Welcome to the Guaranteed Research Experience!

Process: Big 6 Steps to Research

3. Location and Access: Where are the best places to find evidence to support your thesis?
Search online databases, e-books, digital reference sources, and
print materials.

Websites for Research on Han Dynasty Achievements

http://www.minnesota-china.com/Education/emSciTech/inventions.htm
Sponsored by the government of Minnesota

http://www.sacu.org/greatinventions.html It is an article reprinted from SACU’s
China Eye magazine (2004).

http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/elementary-lesson-plans/chinese-inventions
Robert Temple (The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. Simon
and Schuster, New York. 1986). Information given here is from Temple’s book.

http://www.ushistory.org/civ/9c.asp The Independence Hall Association (IHA) was founded in 1942 to spearhead the creation of Independence National  Historical Park. We are written into the enabling legislation of the Park and  stand as an independent group of private concerned citizens overseeing and  being consulted on matters concerning the Park.

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/kiting/ATZ_KitingUptheSky_September1991.pdf

Kiting Up the Sky: Smithsonian A to Zoo

http://www.asia.si.edu/explore/listByArea.asp?browseTopic=5

Smithsonian Chinese Arts (calligraphy)

Begin by developing some background knowledge about important events and people of the time.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow – PBS
Reconstruction – PBS

* Choose a note-making strategy that works for you.
* Make notes about each topic so that you could explain it to someone who asked.
* Make sure you PARAPHRASE from the original source. (Make notes in your own voice.)

*** Note-Making Guide  Click on link- Click on Save As – Make sure you save to your H: drive or you will lose your work!!!!

Conard High School 

Celio Submit Thesis Statement

Paraphrasing How To

Paraphrasing Practice

Web Evaluation Tutorial

http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

Begin with a research pre-test: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3641541.html

Using primary and secondary sources, we will begin to explore slavery in America as a topic for research.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html#01a

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/index.cfm

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