Use these books in Cornell's REFERENCE collection to find good background information on your topic. Encyclopedias cover all sorts of different topics and should provide with articles that will help you to get your research started. There will be additional useful books in the same general area as the books listed below:
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Science for Kids (Chester Children's Chorus)
PRINT Encyclopedias & Reference Works in the Library:
Animal sciences
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2002.
Cornell Reference SF61 .A56 2002 v.1 - 4
Great events from history II.
Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, c1995.
Covers Ecology & the Environment 1902 - 1994.
Cornell Reference GE150 .G72 1995 v.1-5
Cornell Reference GE150 .G72 1995 v.1-5
Great events from history II.
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1991.
Covers Science & Technology 1888 - 1991.
Cornell Reference Q125 .G825 1991 v.1-5
Cornell Reference Q125 .G825 1991 v.1-5
Macmillan encyclopedia of chemistry
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1997.
Cornell Reference QD4 .M33 1997
Life on earth
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.
Cornell Reference QH541 .15 .B56L54 2002 v.1-2
There are LOTS of books on all sorts of animals in the QL section of our Reference collection:
- QL400-500's - Insects
- QL600's - Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles & Birds
- QL700's - Mammals
ONLINE Encyclopedias & Reference Works:
These are online encyclopedias that are provided by the library, so you must be on a Swarthmore College computer to access them. You will not be able to get to these from any off-campus computers.
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.
Encyclopedia of life sciences
A fully searchable collection of articles by scientists and historians in ALL areas of Biology. Also available in print on the shelves near the Ben Franklin head.
Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia
Provider: Gale
Provides articles and illustrations on animals, their life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and more.
Web Sites:
ALA Great Web Sites for Kids
The American Library Association has put together a good site for tracking down websites for kids. Look for the Appropriate for Middle School aged youth web sites under each subject area. You can SEARCH the whole website on the search page.
Homework Spot: Middle School Science
A good source of websites covering: Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Science, Life Science, Weather and much more.
The MAD Scientist Library
Scroll down the screen to find "OFF THE SHELF" which provides links to web pages under topics from ANATOMY to ZOOLOGY.
Schools Wikipedia
This is a brand new online wikipedia, created for students. This link is to the general SUBJECT page.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by the readers of the web site. Definitions, descriptions, written compendium of human knowledge with hyperlinking.
The WWW Virtual Library: BIOSCIENCES
The WWW Virtual Library: NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS
Yahoo Kids! Directory: Science & Nature
Check out the subject categories in the left column for areas that would cover your topic.
Delaware County Library System Databases:
If you have a Delaware County Library card, you can get access to LOTS of databases from any computer! These databases will give you articles and websites that could help you with your research, not only for this project, but for all of your school papers and projects! And you can even use PowerSearch to search more than one database at the same time!
These databases might be helpful to you for this project (you will need to log in with your name and library card number to access these titles):
• EBSCOhost - a bundle of databases covering LOTS of topics. You can select ALL the databases, or whichever ones fit your subject. Check out MasterFILE, Book Collection NonFiction & EBSCO Animals.
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
• Searchasaurus (select the 750 - 950 or 850 - 1050 'lexile')
These databases might be helpful to you for this project (you will need to log in with your name and library card number to access these titles):
• EBSCOhost - a bundle of databases covering LOTS of topics. You can select ALL the databases, or whichever ones fit your subject. Check out MasterFILE, Book Collection NonFiction & EBSCO Animals.
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
• Searchasaurus (select the 750 - 950 or 850 - 1050 'lexile')