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Endangered Species Project... 4/07

Research Steps:
1. Determine your keywords: spelling counts.
2. OPAC... do a POWER search for books on your species.
3. Reference books and books on the cart. (This includes regular encyclopedias!)
4. Online Resources:

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: http://www.fws.gov
• EBSCO's Animals Database
  (from the public library. You will need your library card #, or ask Ms. Voelker for one.)
• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center
• World Book Encyclopedia
• World Wildlife Fund's A to Z species index
  This site supplies extensive information on many endangered animals. Each animal has an introductory report, sections on general biology, distribution, population, threats, conservation and research activities, legal status, captive breeding programs, and a bibliography of related reading references.

Biomes Project- 9/21
1. Determine your keywords
2. OPAC... Power Search for books.
3. Reference Books
4. Online Resources: Thomson Gale: ebook Check out our new ebook: The UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes. It is available online through our Thomson Gale portal. Click on Virtual Reference Library, and then the view publications link next to the word "environment." Click on UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes, and then the link entitled search this ebook. Thomson Gale: Student Resource Center Gold & Science Resource Center The World Book Online Encyclopedia Grolier Online Encyclopedia The World's Biomes Get an intro to the major biomes of the earth, including aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra. Tour of Biomes Learn about the Earth's different ecological communities of plants and animals and their climates. What's it Like Where You Live? Information on biomes: what they are, where they are located, and the plants and animals which live in them.

Biomes Project

Thomson Gale: ebook
Check out our new ebook: The UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes. It is available online through our Thomson Gale portal. Click on Virtual Reference Library, and then the view publications link next to the word "environment." Click on UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes, and then the link entitled search this ebook.

Thomson Gale: Student Resource Center Gold

The World Book Online Encyclopedia

Grolier Online Encyclopedia

The World's Biomes
Get an intro to the major biomes of the earth, including aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra.

Tour of Biomes
Learn about the Earth's different ecological communities of plants and animals and their climates.

What's it Like Where You Live?
Information on biomes: what they are, where they are located, and the plants and animals which live in them.