Country Culture Research 

World Geography 9th Grade

Class Page Gaggle Email Library Web Handout and Country List

The assignment

Use library resources to gather information about the culture of your country.  A password sheet will enable all of the resources below to be utilized at home as well as at PMHS.

 Class Handout

Resources

 

Facts on File

select

World Atlas 

 

 

 

ABC-CLIO

(Use new pisdstudent username and the usual password)

World Geography

Britannica

 

 

 

**EBSCO 

Student Research Center then Select COUNTRY REPORTS

 Gaggle Email

 

 

 

Gale's

Student Resource Center - Gold

Provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts

 

 

Evaluating Information

Be sure to utilize credible and reliable sources  -- articles that are self-published or that rely on personal opinion, publications that are slanted in favor of one side, or sites that are strongly commercial will not meet criteria required from good researchers.  Resources found above on have authority and can be considered credible and reliable   

Citing Sources

 

 

Teacher Evaluation and Due Dates

TBA

 
Updated 12/08/09