Southwest High School Media Center

Vital Resources for our LSW Instructors !

Graphic Organizers

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Rubrics

*Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Assessment Rubrics

*RubiStar for Teachers

*Teach-Nology Rubric

10th Grade: Evaluating Websites!

Got Book Reviews? Teen Reads!!

Cable in the Classroom

TeacherTube

del.icio.us - Free your memory for other tasks; all your favorites are posted here!-

netTrekker - Smart Searching!

Copyright

*Temple University: Copyright and Fair Use

*Copyright Links from the Nebraska Library Commission

*Copyright Basics and the Internet

PATHFINDERS!

The Internet Public Library

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Mr. Pernicek's Pathfinders: Fallen Angels Research Topics

Renaissance Research

English 9 Pathfinder: The Secret Life of Bees

Keywords

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

Example:"Marilyn Monroe"

• Discovering Collection


• WilsonWeb

Keywords

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

Example:
1960s art
1960s entertainment
1960s technology

• Gale Virtual Reference Library


• Discovering Collection


• ABC-CLIO American History


• netTrekker
  Click on High School, enter your search term


• PowerMediaPlus

• American Cultural History - The twentieth century
  http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html

• Year by Year: 1900-2008
  http://www.infoplease.info/yearbyyear.html

• History Central
  http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

• The 20th Century - Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century

• 20th Century America
  http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm

• Fashion Era
  http://www.fashion-era.com/

• Crazy Fads
  http://www.crazyfads.com

• People's Century (1900 - 1999)
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury

• RETRO - Super Cool Stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, & 90s
  http://www.teacheroz.com/retro.htm

• BBHQ Intro
  http://www.bbhq.com/intro.php

Keywords

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

Example:"Agent Orange"
"chemical warfare"

• ABC-CLIO U.S. at War


• ABC-CLIO American History

(See Fallen Angels Research List)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library


• netTrekker
  Click on High School, enter your search term


• PowerMediaPlus

• http://www.vietnam-war.info/summary/

• http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pws/60s/types.html (copy and paste URL into new browser)
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/index.html
• http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html
• http://www.vietnamwar.com/index.htm

Topic

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/bio

http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/the_marvelettes.html

http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/the_crystals.html

Fats Domino, Elvis, Miles Davis, The Supremes

Topic

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

Civil Rights Movement

Note: Also use search term of changing movement

ABC-CLIO American History

Gale Virtual Reference Library

CNN - Civil Rights Movement
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html

Civil Rights Movement Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Birmingham Church Bombing:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Pop Culture Universe

Protest Music of the 1960s: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~richard5/civilrights.html

search terms: protest songs, civil rights protest songs

Jim Crow Laws

Note: use search term Jim Crow Movement

ABC-CLIO World Geography

ABC-CLIO Ancient History

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-western-wall.htm

Pop Culture Universe

(search term "black madonnas")

The Author's Perspective:
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/secret_life_bees.html

Google Answers:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/480148.html

President Kennedy and President Johnson

ABC-CLIO American Government

ABC-CLIO American History

Pop Culture Universe

Keywords

Databases

Websites

Books/Print Reference

Example:"William Shakespeare"

• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia


• ABC-Clio World History, (Modern Era).
  Select Research Lists on the lower left; next, select Renaissance from the lists.


• Discovering Collection


• WilsonWeb

Comprehensive Web Sites:
http://www.teacheroz.com/renaissance.htm
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/renaissance2/looking-text.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/printing.html
http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/

Your Teachers' Projects: Renaissance
http://media.lps.org/lsw/YourTeachersProjects.html
or

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html