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SCI: Grade 9: Climate Change Unit

This guide gives tips on how to complete the research section of science lab reports.

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Annotated Bibliography Lesson

Your annotated bibliography is a list of the sources you will use in your paper with a paragraph underneath each source summarizing and evaluating the source.

See video lessons:

Video: How to write an annotated bibliography (slides HERE)

Video: How to Cite Sources in APA format

 

Citation Links:

Sample APA Bibliography via Purdue OWL (see p. 26)

OSLIS Citation Maker (APA)

Bibliography Checklist (forced copy)

Using Paperpile

Put the sources you find into Paperpile.

If you don't remember how to use it, watch below:

Keyword Searching

Use quotation marks to keep exact phrases together:

  • "climate change"
  • "global warming"

Combine phrases with other terms to narrow a search:

  • "Climate change" "geothermal energy"

Use an asterisk (*) to include all possible endings of a word in a search:

  • "Climate change" solution* 

 

Word Bank: Use alone and in combinations

"Greenhouse gases" "Carbon dioxide" "Global warming"
Emission Anthropogenic "Fossil Fuels"
Deforestation "Large Scale Agriculture" "Paris Agreement"
"Kyoto Protocol"  "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" "United Nations"
"Alternative energy" "Renewable energy" Policy
Regulation Regulation "Green New Deal"
"Cap and trade" "Carbon trading" "Carbon tax"
LEED Infrastructure Electricity
"Human Population" Women empowerment "Carbon footprint"

Efficiency

The Search Puzzle: Boolify

Watch: Use Boolify to "gamify" your search

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Scholarly Climate Change Resources

Passwords HERE

Watch - How to use Gale: SCIENCE IN CONTEXT

Gale: Science in Context

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Encyclopedia Britannica - Search for the general article "Climate Change" 

Twig Videos

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Other Scholarly Sources

Search magazines: