Research Resources

The following is a listing of databases, Web Sites and books for you to use for whichever Essential Question (Project) choice you make. Each Essential Question page has resources specific to the topics of the Essential Question.

Online Resources

Start your research with the following resources:

• Big6 Introduction Video | Big6 Skills to Guide Your Research

• Citation Builder with World Book

• Cornell Notes Template (Make a copy to your Drive. Make a copy for each new resource.)

• GATP Video Resources

• GATP Focused Databases, eBooks and Citation Builder

• GATP Sample Topics

• Main FCPS Database Page

• MyOn for Research

• Slideshow to Help Your Plan Your Presentation (Make a copy to your Drive.) (Source: Karen Baxter)

• Works Cited Lesson

|Social Studies Websites|

· Age of Exploration – The Mariner’s Museum

· Ancient Civilizations

· Ancient Civilizations – a site from Kings Park, a FCPS elementary school.

· Ancient Civilizations for Kids

· Ancient History

· Ancient History Projects on the Web

· Ancient History Resources

· Ancient Scripts

· Ancient World - PBS

· Ancient Worlds

· Bartleby Books

· BBC Schools

· Biographies of the Renaissance

· Browse the World

· Calendars Through the Ages

· China’s Age of Invention - NOVA Online

· Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?

· Discoverers Web

· Elizabethan England

· Encyclopedia Mythica

· Encyclopedia Smithsonian

· Evaluating Websites – Internet Checklist

· Exploring Ancient World Cultures

· Eyewitness to History

· Famous Artworks Exhibition – Web Museum, Paris

· Galileo Project

· Geographia

· History of Plumbing

· Hyper History

· Internet History Sourcebooks Project

· Kidipede: History for Kids

· Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History

· Why Study History?

· World Civilizations

· World Civilizations – Washington State University

· World Factbook - Gather information about nations around the world

Books

Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Arthur Cotterell (1980)

First Civilizations First Civilizations by Erica C. O. Hunter (2003)

Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture by Cyril M. Harris (1983)

Kingfisher Atlas of the Ancient World by Simon Adams (2006)

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (1999)

National Geographic Student Atlas of the World - National Geographic Student Atlas of the World (2005)

Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World by Christopher Scarre (1993)

The Concise Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Janet Serlin Garber (1978)

The Usborne Introduction to Archaeology, Internet-Linked by Abigail Wheatley (2005)

The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World Geography with Complete World Atlas by Gillian Doherty (2004)

Visual Dictionary of Ancient Civilizations - Visual Dictionary of Ancient Civilizations (1994)