Environment: Biomes
Print Resources
Print sources are physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.
Check Destiny Discover Online Catalog for books on your topic.
Destiny Discover Collections: Biomes -- coming soon!
eBooks on Biomes
Click on the image above to search for topics about Biomes.
Databases
Databases are online collections of information from journals, magazines, books and other sources authored by subject-area experts. Materials found in a database are invisible to a search engine such as Google.
For home access to Student Resources in Context or World Book Encyclopedia, log into your D118 Google account and view the following document for passwords: MMS Database Passwords for Home Use. You will need these passwords to access the following articles:
Click on the World Book Student image above to search for your specific biome. For example, search for rainforest or boreal forest.
Websites
When using information from websites or looking for new ones to use in assignments, make sure you can answer "yes" to the following three things:
1) Readable -- Do I understand what I am reading?
2) Reliable -- Is the site safe, authoritative,and accurate ? Did an expert person or organization write the information? How do I know?
3) Relevant -- Is the source on topic, focused and useful?
The following websites are readable, reliable and relevant.