Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Databases, Electronic Sources, and Print Sources
How to access electronic sources and databases in addition to print sources and list all in a working bibliography.
Other
Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success
This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Research Institute: Getty Vocabularies
This resource provides terminology for art, architecture, materila culture, and bibliographical information in order to help catalogers and researchers enhance databases and websites.
Other
Roller Coaster Database: Worldwide Roller Coaster Data
This is a comprehensive research database with data on over 6,300 roller coasters all over the planet.
Other
Oslis: Learn How to Do Research, Find Information, Cite Sources
Excellent site outlining each step for Internet research at the middle school and secondary levels. This site focuses on a variety of information literacy topics, from how to research, find and evaluate information, and cite sources....
University of Texas at Austin
Ut Austin Center for Space Research
The homepage of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas whose mission is "to conduct research in orbit determination, space geodesy, the Earth and its environment, exporation of the solar system, as well as expanding the...
Planetary and Space Science Centre
Passc: Earth Impact Database
A comprehensive site which allows you to do research on any impact crater found on the Earth. You can sort them by name, size or age. The site also contains maps of the continents marked with the locations of each crater. Satellite...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
This site is useful because it offers a database of over 300,000 questions asked on surveys since the 1930s. Also contains Latin American and Japanese data bank retrieval system as well. Listing of general social surveys 1972-1998.
Harvard University
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Research for Educators
Research database for educators. Search for educational topics, including standardized testing, arts in schools, or literacy and find current research and information regarding the issue.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: Global Indicators Database
About the Key Indicators Database: Pew Research Center conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Expert Witness Database at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
This article focuses on the need for expert witnesses which is growing as immigration judges are requiring more and more evidence to back claims made by asylum seekers. The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) at the University...
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Market Researcher
Very descriptive overview of the job of a market researcher. Read about the job, skills needed, education needed, working conditions, and much more.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Online Research Databases
This lesson discusses using research databases to conduct research.
Other
International Union of Crystallography
This site has links to journals, databases, research, commissions, etc. on the subject of Crystallography.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Research Process: Finding Sources
This lesson plan focuses on how to find sources including information on research strategies: preliminary, intermediate, and advanced. It provides a variety of resources available in each level including videos: " How To Google Like A...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Justice and Injustice
In this self-guided unit, you will be exploring the themes of justice and injustice. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning activities. At the end of the unit, you will follow the research process to...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Catalogs and Search Tools
This resource provides Stanford University catalog collections, as well as databases and search tools.
Duke University
Duke University Libraries: Finding Primary Sources
Finding primary sources can be difficult and confusing at times. This site provides a list of history databases, rare books and manuscripts, and research guides for those looking for primary resources such as diaries, letters,...
University of Richmond
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education & Research
The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Kids Search in the Classroom
This is a technology-based lesson that will focus on using the Kids Search database in the Alabama Virtual Library. Learners will work in teams to access information about animals. This lesson will allow students to research a particular...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institute Research Information System
A site from which to search databases of collections belonging to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and for information on hundreds of thousands of artworks in public and private collections worldwide. For serious researchers only,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring the Alabama Virtual Library
In preparation for independent research projects, students in small groups practice proper citation and familiarize themselves with Alabama Virtual Library databases using a graphic organizer.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper
This lesson introduces young scholars to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume...