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8th Grade Dual Bullfighting Research: Online Encyclopedia Databases

About Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias have a little information about a lot of topics!  This makes them great sources to start your research:

  • learn about your topic; build background knowledge
  • identify keywords / search terms that will help with additional research
  • now that you know some facts about your topic, what additional questions do you have?  Use other sources/databases to dive deeper!

NOTE about Spanish language resources in most of our databases:

  • Our databases are not as smart as you!  You will need to do all your searching in English and then use the database tools to translate them to Spanish!

World Book Online Database

1. Access World Book Online Database using the link below:

 World Book Student Select "Student" version.


World Book Student Search 

2. Search for your topic. (above is a SCREENSHOT only)


Read 

3. Open articles and skim and scan for information. Find an article that gives you background information about your topic and/or helps answer your research question(s).


4. TRANSLATE your article to Spanish 

World Book Tools and Settings     Translate

(above is a SCREENSHOT only)

5. For help on copying and pasting the citation into NoodleTools, go o to the Citing Databases in NoodleTools page.

 


BONUS. Follow the directions in the video to add the SPANISH article to your Google Drive.  (NOTE: Unfortunately, the World Book "Save to Google Drive" tool will NOT save the Spanish translation; it will revert to English.)  

Britannica School - Middle School Database

* NOTE: Suggestion to use World Book Student rather than Britannica for this project due to better functionality of Spanish language option.

1. Access the Britannica School - Middle School Database using the link below:


 Search    Search bar

2. Search for your topic.  (above is a SCREENSHOT only)


Read 

3. Open articles and skim and scan for information. Find an article that gives you background information about your topic and/or helps answer your research question(s).


4. TRANSLATE your article to Spanish

     Translate     Select language

(above is a SCREENSHOT only)


6. COPY and PASTE the article into a Google Doc so you will have easy access to it from off-campus. (NOTE: Unfortunately, the World Book "Save to Google Drive" tool will NOT save the Spanish translation; it will revert to English.)