River Trail Media Center
RESEARCH PATHFINDER
The Black Death and the Middle Ages
Collaborative Team: 6th Grade Social Studies
Ms. Wall, Media Resources
**Remember that the Media Center is open each day at 7:30 a.m. for additional research time. Be sure to get a
pass from your teacher the day before.**
WHERE TO START and HOW TO FIND IT – RESEARCH SOURCES:
The Library Catalog will help you locate books in the Media Center.
Use the Index volume of the Encyclopedias to find additional information using these keywords:
plague black death
bubonic plague
Middle Ages
Medieval
Dark Ages
BOOKS: (These books on the Black Death (the Plague) and the Middle Ages have been placed on a
cart for your use.)
614.4 WAR Epidemic
614.5 CEF The plague
614.5 ELL Medieval medicine and the plague
614.5 MAC The plague and medicine in the Middle
Ages
614.5 PET The Black Death
616.9 FAR Invisible enemies : stories of infectious
disease
909 MED Medieval world, 10 volumes
909.07 BIN Medieval world
909.07 GAL Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other
Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
909.07 MCN The Middle Ages
909.07 RIC Life during the Middle Ages
940.1 DAH The Middle Ages; a popular history
940.1 DUN Life during the black death
940.1 HIN Life in the Middle Ages
940.2 PRU Rats, bulls, and flying machines : a
history of the Renaissance and Reformation /
COMPUTERS: Use the same keywords as mentioned above to access information in the databases listed.
To access the following web sites, go to http://www.rivertrailmiddleschool.org then select Media
Center. The “Pathfinders” link will take you to The Black Death and the Middle Ages
COMPUTERS:
www.worldbookonline.com School use: User ID – rivertrail password – wolves
Home use: User ID – rivertrailhome password - wolves
www.galileo.usg.edu Click on K-12 (top right), then use the following databases and type in your
keyword(s) to access encyclopedia, magazine, and newspaper articles: (password for at home use –
statehouse) Under Middle School, go to:#2 Compton’s by Britannica
Under High School, go to: #8 Encyclopedia Britannica Online
www.go.grolier.com For use at home: User name – fultonsd ; password – home.
Type in your keyword(s) to access encyclopedia, magazine, and newspaper articles
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/bdeath.html The plague and its causes
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm Eyewitness to History
http://www.mrdowling.com/703-plague.html The plague
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml History of the Black Death/BBC
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/plague.html The Plague
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-era.htm The Plague during
Elizabethan England
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-world-history.htm How the disease
spread
http://web.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/special/science/plague.htm Current news about the Plague
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195680,00.html Current news about the Plague