Gather Information About Biomes From a Variety of Sources

Local Print and Non print Resources

 Skills

• School Library holdings
  • Use the Destiny to locate books in nonfiction, reference and websites.
  • Print Encyclopedias
• Public Library holdings
  • BCPL Online Catalog
• Online Encyclopedias
  

• Search Strategies (Boolean, Natural Language, etc)
• Using the BCPL Online Catalog
• Using Print Encyclopedias... Advantages of different encyclopedia formats
• Using Online Encyclopedias ...See help section on each encyclopedia website

Digital Content

  Skills

Consider using: Ask your school librarian for passwords for use at home. Biomes Biomes of the World- MGBnet Biomes of the World - Network for Instructional TV Introduction to Biomes (8 biomes) Mission: Biomes - NASA Terrestrial Biomes World Biomes WorldBiomes.com World's Biomes

• Evaluating Web sites for Authenticity...This skill lesson would be extremely helpful for evaluating web sites pertaining to biomes.
• Using the Internet