Career Exploration Research
Career (n): an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
Essential Questions:
- What resources and databases are available in our media center?
- How do we determine if a source is reliable?
Requirements:
Create a Working Bibliography - NoodleTools
Have a minimum of 5 sources within your Working Bibliography
1 article from a Database (Naviance or Gale)
Sources must be published after 2000
Wikipedia does not count as a reliable source!
The library owns a variety of books on specific careers. Search for books in the High School Library Catalog
Potential Resources
Naviance - Guidance gave a presentation about Naviance on the first day of this research assignment - WebGrades - Links Page
Gale Database - Gale in Context: High School - WebGrades - Links Page
Creating Citations
Websites
You will need the following pieces of information when you cite a website (ones in bold are absolutely necessary, the others you should include if you can find them.)
Create your new citation
Website --> Webpage
URL
Date of Publication
Most Recent Date of Access (click today? for it to automatically add the current date)
Contributors (Author or Editor)
Web page or document/article title (specific page you are using)
Name of the website (name of the whole website)
Publisher (look at the bottom of the page near the copy right)
Databases
Gale Database:
In the article on Gale click on the " Cite button at the top of the page
Click the NoodleTools icon
This will open a new tab
On the new tab, make sure your project is listed at the bottom
Click "Import References" at the bottom of the page
This will make a GREEN bar appear at the top
Double check that it is in your NoodleTools before closing the article tab
Naviance
In NoodleTools select "+New Source"
Select Database --> Original Content in Database
Look for the following items (bold are required)
Name of Database: Naviance
Date of Publication
URL
Most Recent Date of Acces (click today? for it to automatically add the current date)
Contributors (Author or Editor)
Article Title