There are alot of ways to get your information!
There are several ways that you can get information for your research. Print materials such as magazines, books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers can often provide a wealth of information about a topic. Your local public and school libraries have wonderful people that will guide you to these resources and help you get the most accurate information. As you read through the material, take notes about your topics of research in a notebook to allow you to review later. Online research is a popular way to get information about your topic. Google is one search engine that provides a starting point to pull up information. When searching the internet you need to be careful about the quality of the resource. The internet is accessible to everyone and anyone can publish information on it if they have the means. Just because a document is on the internet does not make it a reliable one. Therefore, you need to judge the sites carefully. Ask an adult for help on this if you are unsure. Interviewing experts is one of the more interesting ways that information can be gathered about your topic. Contact a local university and talk to the researchers that teach there about your topic. For example, if you are doing a project about plants, call the University's botany department. Businesses in the area also support opportunities to speak to students about their science fair projects. Those that work in the field love speaking to you about what they have learned so that you can learn from them. When you interview someone, make sure you come to the interview prepared with questions about your topic and let them know what you are planning to do for your project. Regardless of the method you choose to gather your information, you will need to make sure that you write down where you got your information. This is called citing your resources. Your teacher may have a specific format for you to use. If you are not given a format,citefast is an automatic citation generator that can help you format this page for your report. It will be included as the last page of the report that you will include with your display board. |