The Paper Towel Experiment Possible key words:

• Paper towel

• Absorbency

• Hydrophilic

• Strength

• Effectiveness

• Experiment

• Types and styles (one ply, two ply, quilted, recycled)

• Fibers

• Specific brand names (Bounty, Brawny, Just the Basics [Walmart],

Check out books. Access your school library catalog

called DESTINY Quest Library Search in school from the Student Turtlenet Page or the TASD Library Resources web site page and from home at:

http://destiny.tulpehocken.org

Try Ebsco eBooks- a POWER Library database

USE POWER LIBRARY DATABASES AT HOME AND IN SCHOOL

In School: Click on the POWER Library link on your Student Turtlenet Page

or Click on the POWER Library Link on the Student TASD Web Site

From Home: Go to your local library web page. Click on the RESOURCE Tab. Use your library card or apply for an e-number which will be sent to your email. Record the number for future use!

POWER Library

• Use Access PA, also known as Find a Book.

• It is an interlibrary loan program unique to Pennsylvania.

• Search the electronic catalog.

• Request the book from your librarian.

• The book will usually arrive in 5-10 days.

Use the suggested web sites on the Library Department Web Site

Resources Page Click on the link on your Student Turtlenet Page-

“Library Resource Page”

or from your Student TASD Web Site Page

www.tulpehocken.org>Our Schools>Tulpehocken Junior-Senior High School>Department>Library>Access to Library Resources

OR go to

http://www.tulpehocken.org/library.aspx

Use an encyclopedia for an overview of your subject.

• Use a print encyclopedia set or an online encyclopedia.

Try http://www.britannica.com/

Write down your all your sources as you use them! This will save you much time later on.

Use Various Search Engines

• Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

• Sweet Search http://www.sweetsearch.com/

• Science Direct http://sciencedirect.com is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books

Learn how to evaluate web site information! View a tutorial on web site evaluation http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval_start.html#

Science Resources

• iSeek

http://www.sciseek.com

• Worldwide Science

http://worldwidescience.org/

• Scientific Commons

http://en.scientificcommons.org

• Sci.gov – searches 50 data bases from 13 federal agencies

http://www.science.gov/

Science Resources

• Scitation

http://scitation.aip.org

• Science Accelerator – Research from the Department of Energy

http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov

• InfoMine

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

• SciVee: Making Science visible

http://www.scivee.tv/

Citing Sources-MLA or APA (Your teacher will let you know what is required)

• Start Using Noodletools to organize your notes and help with citing sources. Go to www.noddletools.com at home. In school, click on the Noodletools link on your Student Turtlenet Page or the Student TASD Page or the Library Resource Page.

• Sign up for an account. Use your student username and password for your individual account.

• Enter a project name and begin. There are many help notes that pop up to assist you.

Citing Sources-MLA or APA

• For guidance for an APA style research paper, citing and listing resources go to:

• OWL sponsored by Purdue University:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

• Learn how to use NoodleTools. Sign up.

• http://www.apastyle.org/

APA Format Examples • Book Format

Author, F. M., & Coauthor, F. M. (Date). Title of the book or report in sentence caps and italics (xth ed.). Place of publication, State: Publisher.

APA Format Example

• Web Site

Purdue University Online Writing Lab. (2003). Using American Psychological Association (APA) format (Updated to 5th edition). Retrieved February 18, 2003 from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_apa.html

Searching Tips

• There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link terms together; limit the search to a specific title; and /or restrict the search to a particular date range.

• Note: Stop words are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. These words are not indexed for searching in the database. For example, 'the', 'for', and 'of' are stop words. When a stop word is used in a query, any single word or no word is retrieved in place of the stop word. When searching strings that contain stop words or a Boolean operator, it is necessary to use quotation marks.

Searching Tips

• Boolean Operators

• Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.

Searching Tips

• USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or full text.

• For example, type emergency preparedness AND disaster to find results that refer to both high risk and injury.

Searching Tips

• USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.

• As an example, search emergency preparedness AND disaster OR planning to find results that contain either the terms "emergency preparedness" and "disaster", or the term "planning".

Searching Tips

• USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.

• Type: emergency preparedness AND disaster NOT planning to find results that contain the terms "high risk" or "injury", but not the term "trauma".

• To further define your results, type: emergency preparedness AND disaster AND planning to constrict the search to include all terms linked by the "AND" operator.

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