Gather Information about Habitats, Food Webs,
and Stressors from
a Variety of Sources

Internet Resources

 Skills

• Chesapeake Bay Program: Habitats
• Cheapeake Bay Program: Animals & Plants
• Bay Pollutants
• Bay Pressures
  
• Bay Resource Library
• Bay Grasses

• Evaluating Web sites for Authenticity...This skill lesson would be extremely helpful for evaluating web sites pertaining to the Holocaust.
• Comparing Search Tools on the Web...Learn the various search engines and why each produces a different set of results.
• Choosing the Best Search Tools for Your Task ...Learn when to use which search engine.
• Using the Internet
• Using Online Encyclopedias ...See help section on each encyclopedia website

Skills

• School library holdings: Use Destiny for related websites and nonfiction titles, such as books about the Chesapeake Bay and field guides to various plants and animals.
• Specific subject encyclopedias in Reference, such as:
  • Animals (Macmillan)
  • Biomes of the World (Grolier)
  • Encyclopedia of Biomes (UXL)
  • Exploring the Ocean (Oxford)
  • Plants and Plant Life (Grolier)
• CD-ROM encyclopedias
• Online encyclopedias, such as Britannica.com (free access to limited encyclopedia)
• Public library holdings: BCPL Online Catalog

• Search Strategies (Boolean, Natural Language, etc)
• Using the BCPL Online Catalog
• Unpacking the "Big" Question (Extracting Key Words
• Using Print and CD-ROM Encyclopedias... Advantages of different encyclopedia formats