Pre-IB World History 1
Recommended Resources, Citation Info, and Project Ideas!

Databases and eBooks: 

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Topical List of Entries in C.E. eBook

Comprehensive Columbian Exchange List in Wikipedia (some are difficult to find enough info on for your research)

The Ongoing Columbian Exchange in eBook and Print:  
Navigating Directions: Click into Clever > then "Follett" for our catalog. Search for Ongoing Columbian Exchange and open the book with the blue "e." Click the "Open" button on the right. (And "Open Now" on next screen as well.)

Click in the middle of the page view, and click on the pancake in the upper left to locate the Table of Contents and scroll way down to the Index and click it. Find a hyperlinked main entry (range of pages in bold) for your topic - click on the right (doesn't scroll) to see the next page of alphabetically ordered entries.
Absolutely start with this resource. It'll give you a relevant and informative starting article and help with other terms to use for searching other resources effectively. 

In NT add the eBook article like this - the red parts are what YOU add/change for your specific search.

Cumo, Christopher. "Peppers." The Ongoing Columbian Exchange: Stories of Biological and Economic 

World History the Modern Era Database - A history database from IHS that features shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written and published by ABC-Clio. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources. Example articles are the Columbian Exchange and Disease and Columbian Exchange and Agriculture. 

Add additional search terms to help you arrive at this particular time period in history in the larger databases, like "origin(s)" or "history of _____" or "columbian exchange" or "Aztec." And finally, a Command or Control F will search a longer article/website for your search term(s) for a quick scan. 

Gale Academic OneFile - This Inglemoor database is helpful for some of your research topics. 

World History in Context Database -  A comprehensive database that gathers published information from reference books, magazines and news publications, academic journals and includes primary sources like videos, images, and audio. Example overview article is the Columbian Exchange. 

Print Books: 

Use the library catalog to locate print books on your research topic, but we've pulled the few that will be especially relevant: Crosby's Columbian Exchange, The Ongoing Columbian Exchange (also available in eBook see above), and Germs, Seeds and Animals. Navigating Directions: Click into Clever > then "Follett" for our catalog

Free Web Recommendations: Adding site:edu to your search terms will provide mostly university sites in your results list. Try that to get more academic, scholarly results!  

Columbian Exchange -  A very nice overview of the Columbian Exchange, provided by the North Carolina Government & Heritage Library. 

The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds by the National Humanities Center and Alfred Crosby (again). Short overview, but includes a few of the topics we're researching. 

The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas - A journal article from the Journal of Economic Perspectives provides an overview of diseases, crops, and rubber and their impact, mainly on the Old World.  Provided by Northwestern University. 

How the Potato Changed the World: by Smithsonian Magazine.

Horse article (great years/migration clickable animation) from Nebraska Public Media Foundation

Almonds Along the Silk Road by The Univ. of the Pacific

Almond Life Cycle and More! by the Almond Board of California. Look for these Associations on the web for your topic. Great source!

The Origin of Coffee by Spruce Eats (a well-known cooking site)

Britannica Encyclopedia! Another great free-web and database source. Example article: The History of Corn by Britannica: Super organized entry from this encyclopedia on the history and current uses of corn.
Note 1 - the free Britannica offers INCORRECT citations (cite button). Build yours carefully in NT website entry - and don't use editors as author. Leave author blank.
Note 2 - If you get a message that says "Access the full article with a free trial..." (Like with Black Death) Go instead to KCLS.org/students. Click on "Middle and High School." Scroll down to Databases and sign in with 417YourStudentNumber and the pin is the last four digits of your student number. KCLS has purchased this database and you can get the full article. 

Citations:

Noodletools - Here is a one-minute quick video overview, including how to submit your project to a drop box. Screencast: How to Share your NT with the Library

**Once you share your works cited, the Librarians always see your "live" version. They'll make comments on them and you'll have a few days before they grade them. 

Webpages.... you have to fill in all the fields for webpage>websites. :) Here's how to do webpage in NT.

**Ideas for presenting your information in new ways!!
Examples, with benefits and limitations of each, are updated on our Additional Resources page - scroll down to view.