Use the following for your BIOME research
The following websites contain travel information (things to do and see) for the BIOMES listed:
Tropical Rainforest http://www.amazon-rainforest.org/places-of-interest.html
http://www.rainforesttours.com/
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Coniferous forest (Taiga) http://goeurope.about.com/od/finland/l/bl-finland-taiga-map.htm
http://www.taiga-tours.ru/eng/tours.htm
Tundra http://www.sameanchorage.org/tropics-tundra/things_to_do.html
Grassland (Savanna) http://temperategrasslandbiome.blogspot.com/ http://www.savanna.org.au/all/tourism.html
desert http://www.desertusa.net/park
SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
http://my.hrw.com Life Science Textbook online sight (you will need your user id and password to log in)
WEBSITES FOR ANIMAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Note: Some of the following websites require a USERNAME and PASSWORD when you are working at home. If you need a USERNAME/PASSWORD, see the Research Pathfinder sheet provided to you by Ms. White.
www.zooatlanta.com Zoo Atlanta Website CHECK THIS SITE FIRST. All animals can be found her
www.worldbookonline.com Online encyclopedia. Citations are given at the bottom of the page for all information found on this cite (you will need the citation for your Bibliography) Need USERNAME and PASSWORD
www.galileo.usg.edu Select High School or Teens page. Good site for researching journals, magazines, websites and periodicals. You will use this site more and more thru high school and college. Need PASSWORD
www.go.grolier.com Need USERNAME and PASSWORD
http://www.enchantedlearning.com Use this site to help you draw a diagram of your animal. Will also give a lot of information to help you answer questions about your animal. Need a USERNAME and PASSWORD
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals National Geographic
http://animal.discovery.com Animal Planet/Discovery Channel
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ National Zoo in Washington DC
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/ Sandiego Zoo
http://www.zoossa.com.au/__files/f/4106/encDesign(p).pdf Adelaide Zoo Enclosure Design
For this project, you need to create a bibliography page. The bibliography is a place will you will cite ALL sources. The following websites will allow you to easily create your citation:
http://www.easybib.com Easy Bibliography USE THIS WEBSITE FIRST TO CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHY. All you have to do is enter ISBN # of a book and the citation is automatically created.
http://citationmachine.net/ citation machine If easybib is not working, can use this cite to create citations