NHD Website: Getting Started
Learn about this year’s theme – Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences
Crafting a quality thesis statement instruction.
Annotated Bibliography Lesson
Evaluating Websites
Evaluating Websites – what to look for.
Evaluating websites pdf
Online Sources [BrainPOP] – Log in with your GAFE
5 Ws of website evaluation
Citation Help
Use the BCMS LMC Style Manual for assistance in citing all of the items listed below.
Print Sources
- Book with one or two authors
- Book with an editor
- Work in an anthology
- Article in a specialized encyclopedia
- Article in a print magazine or newspaper
- Article in a magazine or newspaper reproduced in a print book or collection – (Example: Twentieth Century America: A Primary Source Collection from the Associated Press)
- Article in a print scholarly journal
Print Sources Available Online
- Article in a specialized encyclopedia included in an online database
- Article in a magazine or newspaper included in an online database
- Article in a magazine or newspaper article on a website
- Print book available online
The Web
Make sure you are not looking at book, magazine article, report, or other type of source posted on the web.
- Help with websites and webpages
- Website (use if you are using several of the site’s pages)
- Web page (use for a single page)
- Identifying the parts of a webpage
Other Types of Sources
- DVD, videocassette, filmstrip, slides
- Film or recording available on the Internet (previously released)
- Song or spoken recording on CD, MP3, audiocassette, or LP
- Work of art in an online gallery or image database (such as an art museum)
- Work of art viewed in a museum or collection
- Lecture, speech, or reading available on a website
- Interview conducted by the researcher (YOU!)
- Government document
Locating Resources in the Library Catalogs
- BCMS Library Catalog (you can search the high school library from here as well.)
- Bethlehem Public Library (search BPL or all libraries. You can request items from other library branches in the system.)
Useful Databases
Finding Information on the Web
- Sweet Search (a search engine for students)
Locating Quality Information Including Primary Sources
- NHD Website: Research Central
- Primary Sources in Physical Collections
- Primary Sources on the Web
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting – interviews and other broadcast programs
- Chronicling America – digitalized newspapers published between 1789-1963
- Digital Public Library – a collection of videos, images, texts and sounds
- Smithsonian Learning Lab – millions of resources and collections
- World Digital Library – “artifacts from around the globe”
Creating/Printing an Annotated List of Works Cited
Annotation Tips [PDF]
Setup and Printing [PDF]
Working with Images
Displaying and Citing Images on a NHD Exhibit [DOC]
Good Sources of Online Images [DOC]
Items to Include on the Exhibit [PDF]