School Library Media Specialist as Instructional Partner CONTENT PATHFINDER Content Pathfinder Title: Changing America GENERAL INFORMATION NAME: Joan Schlitter SCHOOL: Olmsted Falls High School WORKSHOP LOCATION: LEECA TITLE OF COMPANION ACTION PLAN: A Changing America Research Project GRA DE LEVEL(S) 11th grade CURRICULUM/SUBJECT AREA: Language Arts III-A SPECIFIC TOPIC: A Changing America Research Project CONTENT INFORMATION The Changing America pathfinder is a detailed list of print and non-print resources appropriate for Mrs. Chubb’s A Changing America research project. Because of the wide range of topics allowed for this research paper the entire print collection of Olmsted Falls High School are available resources for this project. CONTENT CATEGORIES PRINT RESOURCES: Reference Books: American Decades 1990 - 1999 American Heritage History of the 20's and 30's American Heritage Index American Heritage Magazines 1954 - present Current Biographies Dictionary of Scientific Biography (17 Vol.) Great Events from History (3Vol.) National Geographic - Index National Geographic Magazines - 1913 - present Science and Technology Illustrated (28 Vol.) The Glory and the Dream (2 Vol.) The Grolier Library of World War I (8 Vol.) The Military History of the United States (16 Vol.) The New Grolier Encyclopedia of World War II (8 Vol.) This Famous Century - (6 Vol.) Timelines - 1900 - 1970 (7 Vol.) 20th Century Pop Culture (5 Vol.) 20th Century Fashion (4 Vol.) OFHS - Online Catalog Links to Leeca's Student Links, North Coast Educational Media Center's electronic resources, and Online card catalog. Olmsted Falls High School's Online Library Catalog - Search the high school's collection here. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: LEECA - Student Links Pages - Links to educational resource sites. Magazines and Newspapers, Encyclopedias and Reference, Web Directories Hotlist on Biographical Resources - Use this list for links for famous Americans of the 20th Century. H. W. Wilson Current Biographies - Contains more than 25,000 biographical articles covering personalities dating back to World War II. Retrieve in-depth biographies and obituaries of politicians, business people, writers, actors, sports figures, artists, scientists, and many others. Hotlist on Current Issues - Search this hotlist for electronic databases and Internet sites. Includes: Opposing View Points, Lexis-Nexis, Sirs Discoverer, Netwellness, EBSCO Host and Gale Student Resource Center. Annuals of Americ an History - Select your decade from the timeline at the top of the page. Gale Student Resource Center Bronze - A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critica l analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. United Streaming - Unitedstreaming delivers more than 2,000 core-curriculum, standards-based videos, lesson plans, t eacher resources, and student activities on-demand to any computer with an Internet connection. Videos have been divided into clips to reflect concepts within the national standards for science, math, social studies, language arts, and health. INTERNET SITES: 20th Century Links - Chico High School Web Page - Links to a number of outstanding American Century resources. American Memory Project - Search this site for primary documents and photographs on your topic. Discovery Channel - Student Page - Search for your topic. Stiern Middle School Library - Century Links - Links to a number of 20th Century resources. Internet Public Library - Reference links - scroll down the page to locate links. Reference Center - Ready Reference links Presidents of the US. http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/ National Inventors Hall of Fame - Contai ns links and an index of inventors and inventions to search. American Cultural History - 1900-1999 - The purpose of this web & library guide is to help the user gain a broad understanding and appreciation for the culture and history of the 1900-1909 period in American history. Noodle Tools.com - NoodleBib - interactive bibliography composer automates what used to be the confusing process of creating a bibliography. Add and edit references on the fly. We take care of punctuation and producing a polished bibliography that's correctly formatted and ready to print! NoodleQuest - The Internet is a great place to start your research, but where do you s tart? NoodleQuest is a wizard that answers that question for you! Just answer a few questions about your research topic and NoodleQuest will tell you some of the best search strategies you can use, and even explain why! Eye Witness Accounts - A presentation of first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history; includes photographs, pictures, sound files, additional resources, and bibliographic citations. History Links - Misc. links to important historical events. People Spot - Biographies - Links to biographical information. HyperHistory Online - The People section reaches from 1,000 BC to the present. It displays lifelines for over 980 persons in science, culture, religion, and politics. (In addition there are special expanded sections for artists, scientis ts, writers, composers, famous women, and politicians accessible from the 'Options'panel). Lives, the Biography Resource - Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. *Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. * Group biographies about peo ple who share a common profession, historical era or geography. * Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections. The People's Century - Select the search icon on the top toolbar to perform a search on your famous person. Picturing the Century - One hundred years of photographs from the National Archives. Based on an exhibition at the National Archives, Washington, DC March 12, 1999-July 4, 2001. Can be searched by era. The Newseum - Stories of the Century - Top 100 news stories of the 20th Century. Includes Quicktime video clips of the ten most significant events. History and Politics Out Loud - Is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics. This project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching With Technology Program in collaboration with Michigan State University and the National Gallery of the Spoken Word. Student Movements in the Sixties - IPL Pathfinder - http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/pf/entry/48532 1960 Internet links at the bottom of the pa ge. Vietnam War Filamentality Page - http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listmrbarbmr.html Links to Vietnam War resources.