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Scientist
Research Project

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Assignment:

Rubric:

Word Search:
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Searching the Databases for Information:
*Access the Destiny Library Catalog from the Library Website and choose our school.
*Click the Catalog tab on the top left and perform a keyword search for your scientist.
*Notice at the top right that the "Titles" tab is selected as the default. These are the books that we have in our Library.
To access our databases, click on the "One Search" tab and then click on "Get Results." When you find a database that looks beneficial to you, click on the green "Show" check to see the individual articles.
(You should not need to login, if you do, it's username: tech, password: football)
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Citing Sources:
*At the bottom of each article that you access through the Grolier Online database is an already formatted citation for you to copy and paste into your Works Cited page. Bonus!!!
*For non-Grolier Online accessed articles and books, use the free Bibliography Generator through the Easy Bib website
*Questions regarding citing your sources? Ask your Librarian :) or go to the Purdue OWL Website


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