Monthly Newsletter
Have your students started preparing for the
campus or district science fair? Do they need
ideas for a project? One of the requirements of
science fair projects is that they should
demonstrate the scientific method. Check out our
resource page full of links to science fair projects
for all levels of students.
http://www.infotopia.info/sci_fair_projects.html
Volume 2, Issue 11
November 2012
Infotopia.info has added a page of twelve
resources for Veterans’ Day, which is
November 11, 2012. Included are Veterans’
Day facts and videos, Veterans’ Day posters,
songs of World War I, oral history accounts
from the Veterans’ History Project, in which
students can search by branch of service and
conflict (war) and hear veterans speak about
their experiences.
The resource page can be found here:
http://www.infotopia.info/veterans_day.html
Other than the listed resources, more sites can
be found using the search
box on any page of Infotopia.info.
Attention High School
and College Students and Teachers
Did you know that you can search
many multidisciplinary web portals on
AcademicIndex.net in addition to using
the Google custom search box? Just
click on the portals that you would like
to include in your search and they will
open in new window(s).
You have the world at your fingertips
and it only includes web sites/searches
recommended by educators.
http://www.academicindex.net
We are continuing to work on resource pages that have been requested by teachers and
librarians. Next month, we’ll have a new page of resources on Greek Mythology.
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Dr. Michael Bell and Carole Bell
(Retired) Librarians/Teachers
bell@infotopia.info
http://www.infotopia.info
http://www.kidtopia.info
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http://www.academicindex.net
These PDF newsletters are always
found online at:
http://www.infotopia.info/newsletter.html
Send us suggestions or research
topics that you need to be added to
Infotopia or Kidtopia.
Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud
and Sprout unlock the mysteries of plant
life! (in English and Spanish) The Great
Plant Escape is an award winning web site
from the University of Illinois. Students will
learn what is needed for plant growth, use
words related to seeds and plants, read to
find answers to questions, describe and
record their observations, and learn all
about plants. It includes a teacher’s guide.
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/index.cfm
Are your students citing their
resources? Check out our new page of
Links to Citation Resources. Your
students can easily use MLA, APA, or
Chicago style to cite their resources.
Also included are links to well-known
resources on style and writing and
information about writing research
papers. We are putting a link on every
Infotopia page to “Cite Your Work,” so
your students can learn to start
documenting their resources.
Send us your feedback!
(bell@infotopia.info)
http://www.infotopia.info/citations.html
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