Library
- Library Catalogs and Databases
- MYP Personal Project
- Drive Safe – Driving School Online
- Research Process
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- MLA Citation and Formatting Links
- Tutorials/Resources
- Reference Sites
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Academic Search Engines
- Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
- Primary Sources
- APA Formatting
Library Catalogs and Databases
Library Catalogs and Databases
eBooks available at SHS! Directions to help you.
Summit County Public Library Databases
Additional databases / resources (outside of SHS):
List of academic databases and search engines
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg
MYP Personal Project
MYP Personal Project
Click Here for the student guide for your Personal Passion Project
Spanish Template for project report
Tips and Suggestions for your final report
Video: Showcase tips from Mr. Blake. Super helpful!! Dates are from 2019.
Criteria for Success (Criterion B and D)
Process Journal–Reflection Ideas
Process Journal (very scripted)
Tools to help students follow their passion
Poster Presentation guidelines
Click Here to watch 2019's Showcase
Click Here to watch 2018's Showcase
Click Here to watch 2017's Showcase
Click Here to watch 2016's Showcase
Genius Hour: This REACH time is your "genius hour" – inspired by Google's 20% time idea – to allow you to pursue your passion project.
Click Here for project ideas
Examples of student's report:
Aprender a cocinar, Como hacer una pizza?
The Life of an Author: Writing and Illustrating a Children’s Story
Musical Composition: Behind the Bop
HTML and CSS: Using the Science of Coding to Share Information About the World
Model United Nations at SHS and in Western Colorado: Planning Phase
Power Program
Photography and the Colorado Seasons
Marty the Mallard
Penicillin: Discovery, Use, Production, and Effects
Flipping Out
Remember, at the end of the project you will need these three items. If you need help with anything, please stop in the library.
- A process journal
- A product or outcome for display that shows other people what you did
- A project report
The Process Journal–Your process journal is the record of your involvement in the Personal Project process. It should record all your ideas, your planning, your discussions, clippings of readings and concepts, diary excerpts, meeting schedules and outcomes with your supervisor, photographs – whatever you do that is part of the process should be kept in this document. You choose the format of your journal. It might be a scrapbook, a notebook, or maybe an electronic site for example.
The Product or Outcome–The product you create is how you show other people what you have investigated. Apart from your journal, which will be part of the display, you need to have some way of showing what you produced or achieved your goal. This might be the actual product such as a model, electronic article, artwork or it might be visuals of the outcome such as photographs of an event you organized.
The Project Report–The written report is crucial for passing the MYP Personal Project. The report demonstrates your learning throughout your project. Reflection and self-evaluation are a key component of your process journal entries and should be reflected in your project report. Template for report.
Drive Safe – Driving School Online
Drive Safe -- Driving School Online
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Enroll in Online Driver's Education for only $55.
Check out the brochure for more information (and read details noted below)
Enroll HERE
- We now offer THREE Driver’s Education courses for our students: 1--The required 30 hours certified course for students under the age of 16, 2--the live online Zoom course (for $99), or 3--the untimed Colorado Adult Express course for students over 16 who need to prepare for the permit test.
- Our online course increases the confidence and knowledge of your student in a variety of driving situations.
- The program is designed to be equivalent to an in-person classroom experience. Your student will learn all the content of the classroom from the convenience of your own home.
- The curriculum based on knowledge, not fear! We focus on defensive and safe driving habits to help make your student become a safe driver for life.
- Interactive games and videos make the learning experience fun and engaging.
- Your student can access the online program anytime, anywhere! It works on all devices. All you need is a working Internet connection.
- Everything is self-paced. When life gets busy, your student can pick up the course at any time.
Under 16? Enroll in the CO Teen 30 hours course to meet your driver’s education coursework
requirement. Or enroll in the $99 Zoom course for a live online experience.
Students over 16 and looking to get your permit? Enroll in the CO Adult Express course!
Research Process
Avoiding Plagiarism
MLA Citation and Formatting Links
Tutorials/Resources
Reference Sites
Reference Sites
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BIOGRAPHY (Don't forget our subscription databases!) Internet Public Library Biographies Biographical resources which provide numerous links. |
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FIND PEOPLE ( and their zip codes) Anywho finds current telephone numbers of people and businesses DICTIONARIES & THESAURUSES WWWebster Dictionary An excellent hypertext, online dictionary and thesaurus offered by the Merriam-Webster Company, a well known publisher of reference books. |
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS Wikipedia The biggest free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Can be edited by users. Over two million articles. Mapquest Find Driving Directions Altapedia Online QUOTATIONS Creative Quotations to Inspire Creative Thinking Provides thousands of quotations, organized and searchable by various arrangements (e.g., month, day, theme, famous person.)
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NEWS AGENCIES - US • R News • ABC News • CBS News • CNN News • FOX News
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• ABYZ Newslinks • New York Times Student Connections FRENCH MAGAZINE
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Kindle Paperwhite
Academic Search Engines
Academic Search Engines
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ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES
Academic Info-subject guide descriptions provide relevant sites.
Archival Research Catalog- U.S. National Archives
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)- over 29 million documents
Bubl- selected Internet resources covering all academic areas.
Chemxseer- "documents in the chemistry domain"
Citeulike- search over 5 million articles
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies- computer-science related information
EBSCOHost- Here you will find the History Reference Center, Science Reference Center, Literary Reference Center, Student Research Center and much, much more.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)- "online digital library of education research and information"
Food Science Central- "world's largest database of information on food science, food technology and nutrition. "
History Engine- research historical topics
Infomine- annotated academic sites and subject databases
Infotopia- educator selected sites
Intute- annotated academic sites
IPL- information you can trust
iSeek Education- search a topic or ask a question
JURN- search 4,303 free e-journals in the arts and humanities
LibGuides Community- over 100,000 pathfinders from thousands of libraries
Library of Congress- search for primary source documents, including photos, maps, manuscripts, historic newspapers and much more
MathWeb Search- search for formulas
NASA historical archive
PsycLine- psychology and social science journals
RefSeek- (currently in public beta) search over 1 billion documents, web pages, encyclopedias, journals, newspapers
Scirus- scientific information
The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System- "Search over 7.4 million records, with 568,100 images, video and sound files from Smithsonian museums, archives, and libraries."
SurfWax- search your topic and find similar, broader or narrower ones
Science.gov- "over 45 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies"
Sweet Search- selective searches for students
Virtual Learning Resources Center- browse the 12 category directory or use a Google custom search
WikiArc- archaeological searches
World-Wide Science- international scientific database
Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
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CREATIVE COMMONS AND PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES
4 Free Photos- from professional photographers
50 Inspirational Images From Flickr Under CC License
5,000 Free Stock Photos- includes 8,000 free cliparts
About Creative Commons Licenses
Animal Photos!- huge listing
Antique Clipart- Victorian and Edwardian clipart
The Best Copyright-Free Photographs- taken by U.S. Government employees for their work
Burning Well- public domain image source
Clipart Etc.- over 65,000 pieces of clipart free to educators
The Commons on Flickr- world public photo collection
Compfight-searches Flickr for CC images
Creativity103.com- more than 2,500 files; abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas
EduPic Graphical Resource- free image resource for educators and students
FedFlix- "best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever."
Find Creative Commons Images in Google Image Search
Flickr Creative Commons Search- inside Flickr; searches only CC images
Free Public Domain Database- from PD Photo
Geograph-photos of the British Isles
Google Advanced Search- when you search something in the advanced mode, you can choose from four choices: 1. free to use or share 2. free to use or share, even commercially 3. free to use share or modify 4. free to use, share or modify, even commercially
Icons- from Crystal Clear, this is a huge (and really nice) collection of icons
Imagebase- with hundreds of pages of images; from photographer David Niblack
Karen's Whimsy- Easter bunnies, illuminated letters, Canterbury Tales, medieval art
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
LiveBinders- many, many more links to other image sites under CC
MorgueFile- search images by subject, size or rating
National Digital Library- from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Open Clip Art Library- about 11,000 total
Open Icon Library- over free 10,000 icons
The Noun Project- symbols, diagrams
PhotoEverywhere-free travel-themed stock images; 3,000+
Photos8- free stock pictures; close to two-dozen categories to choose from
Picdrome- public domain pictures
PikWizard -- high quality, free stock photosPixabay- stunning photos and clipart
Public Domain Photos- high resolution
Public Domain Photos- from imcphoto.net
Teaching Students About the Creative Commons
Wikimedia Commons- browse their database of over 1.6 millions images!
WorldImages Kiosk- California State University's database houses around 80,000 images
Wylio- free pictures for bloggers
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
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100 Milestone Documents- from 1776-1995
American Memory from the Library of Congress- browse collections by time period, place, topic; search through map collections, manuscripts, motion pictures, sheet music, photos, prints, sound recordings and books or other printed texts. EXCELLENT SITE!
American Memory Map Collections-search for cities/towns, conservation/environment, discovery/exploration and general maps
American Rhetoric- online speech bank
Archives in the Attic- documents from the Great Depression
Archiving Early America- newspapers, maps & writings from 18th century America
The Authentic History Center- artifacts and sounds from American popular culture
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School-documents in law, history and diplomacy
Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley- 0ver 60 million manuscript items and 600,000 volumes; huge collection
Battle Lines: Letters From America's Wars- thousands of wartime letters, from the Gilder Lehrman
Collection
Biblioteche Saint Genevive- blind-tool bookbindings from 12th-18th centuries
The Charters of Freedom- Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution
Child Labor in America- covers 1908-1912
CivilWar.com- official records of the union and confederate armies; covers 1881-1900.
Civil War Primary Source Documents- HUGE listing from Tracey Oz, history teacher
The Coming of the American Revolution- from the Massachusetts Historical Society; 14 lessons include primary source documents
Digital Library on American Slavery-from the University of North Carolina at Greenboro
Documents for the Study of American History- from 1000-2000, this is a very extensive listing of pdf and audio files
Documenting the American South- from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eurodocs- selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations
Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives
Eyewitness to History- audio clips from people entitled "Voices of the 20th Century"
Franklin Institute American History and Government Hotlists
Headlines and Audio from 1900-1999
Historical Text Archive- over 9,000 articles, books, and links
History of Ireland- primary documents
History Matters- includes 1,00 primary documents, images, and audio interviews
Holocaust Photos- [very graphic]
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
The James Buchanan Resource Center
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
L.B.J.'s Phone Conversations- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War- written by Newton Robert Scott
Library of Congress Exhibitions- search from A to Z
Library of Congress--Primary Source Sets
Library of Congress Teachers' Page- classroom materials, themed resources, lesson plans, collection connections, professional development and so much more. EXCELLENT SITE!
The Lincoln Archives Digital Project
Medieval Sourcebook- full-text sources
The National Archives YouTube Channel
National Archives DocsTeach- create activities with the online documents
National Humanities Center- "historical documents, literary texts, and works of art—thematically organized with notes and discussion questions."
National Jukebox: Historical Recording from the Library of Congress
New York Public Library- documents, video, audio
Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room- from the Library of Congress, this extensive listing includes: historical collections from the 19th and 20th century
Office of the Federal Register- public papers of the Presidents of the United States, federal laws
The Oriental Institute- photographic archives includes maps from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan
The Papers of George Washington- contains documents, articles, maps, and images
Photos of the Great Depression- includes dust storms, farms for sale, migrant workers
Popular Songs in American History- from the 17th century; this is a huge collection of audio files!
Presidential Libraries Listing
The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century- documents, photographs, audio recordings, more
Primarily History- primary sources blog written by a college librarian
Primary Sources: Oral History and Audio-Visual Materials- photos, newsreels, pamphlets, advertisements, TV clips
Primary Sources: The Korean War- from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
Prints and Photographs Reading Room- from the Library of Congress, these are selected images of Ellis Island and Immigration.
Regional History- exhibits from the National Archives includes the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Influenza Epidemic in 1918, the Atlanta Regional Archive
Repositories of Primary Sources- over 5,000 websites are listed here, covering manuscripts, archives, historical photographs, and other primary sources. WOW!!
Science Service Historical Image Collection- 20th-century scientific research; site claims "the captions were written by Science Service journalists and have been transcribed exactly".
The Smithsonian Collections- covers art, history, science, libraries
Talking History- from the University at Albany, this is a site for aural history, including radio shows
Teaching with Documents- from the National Archive; lesson plans
The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive- over 1700 items, (electronic texts, some color manuscript
images; 9,000 quotations arranged by theme, date, topic recipient and place of publication
Time and Life Pictures- search by date or use the advanced search
Timeline of Art History- from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database- over 35,000 slaving voyages
Turning the Pages- document includes: the first atlas of Europe, the oldest printed book, the original Alice's Adventures Underground (Alice in Wonderland) and Mozart's musical diary.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Why Use Primary Sources?- from the Library of Congress; ten reasons listed
Women's Speeches from Around the World
World Digital Library- 10,000 sources from around the world
World War II in Color-site has photos for download
World War II Military Situation Maps- browse the collection by title, subject or date; from the Library of Congress