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Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak Library: Junior Research Toolkit

The Research Cycle

The Research Cycle 

  1. Plan how you will tackle the research.
  2. Identify possible resources to use (books, websites, other).
  3. Locate resources in the library and online.
  4. Evaluate the resources you have found critically.
  5. Document the details of the resources you use

Search Engines

          Duck Duck Go searches the best sites, not the most sites
 

  http://lgimages.s3.amazonaws.com/data/imagemanager/91856/sweet_search.gif   A Search Engine designed for Students
 

              Wolfram Alpha is great for factual queries, especially
              in Maths and Science
 

       Improve your search results by using Google's advanced
                        search features

Safe Search Kids Google Safe Search for Kids

KidzSearch - Safe Search Engine.  Kidzsearch

Image result for kidrex image KidRex

Image result for swiggle.org Swiggle

Is this site credible?

Cartoon used under Creative Commons from  BLAUGH.com

Cathy Schrock's 5 Ws of Website Evaluation

Plagiarism

Research Organiser

Save this Research Organiser to your computer and use it to record your research, your key facts and YOUR OWN WORDS.

Copyright- free Images

Images for educational use:

Edupic

Pics4kids

Do not cite images in your bibliography. Follow the example below:

        Source: http://www.pics4learning.com

 

Accessing Library resources

Username: school username

Password: your birthday ddmm (e.g.

2 May = 0205)

 

See Library staff for World
Book log in
Sign in via the Portal Library link
Use your school email address

Sign in via the Portal Library link
See Library staff for Echo
Online log in

eBooks & Audio

For Years 3-6

Username - school username

Password  - your birthday in 4 numbers (DDMM)

For Years 7-12

Username - school username

Password  - your birthday in 4 numbers (DDMM)

For Years 7-10

Username - school username

Password  - your birthday in 4 numbers (DDMM)

TWLH Chart

We use a TWLH chart to show our thoughts and ideas about a topic. Save this blank TWLH chart to your computer.