LibGuides: Grade 7 Exploring Engineering and Design: Home

Assignment

Problem Validation Template

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Visit our library page on Schoology and look for the passwords document in Resources.

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Databases

Explora for Grades 6-8 This link opens in a new window
Learn about your favorite subject. Look up words. Read magazines, newspapers, biographies, primary sources, country information. Find pictures. Translate articles into more than 30 languages.
Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window
Designed to inspire thought-provoking debates, each in-depth article presents both sides of an issue clearly and without bias. Updated weekly, this resource presents the key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today’s most important issues.
Research in Context: Middle This link opens in a new window
Spanning literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history.
Science in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Science in Context is an engaging online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.
Login with your Google account to create an option to save articles
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Easy access to science and math information. Contains science experiments and full-text science encyclopedias, magazines, and journals.
SIRS Issue Researcher This link opens in a new window
Covering the leading issues most studied and debated by students. Includes Pro vs. Con debates.
Username: 7HILLS!
Password Stingers1!
Source Reference This link opens in a new window
General reference database that promotes knowledge building, problem-solving and critical thinking to give people the information skills necessary for success throughout their academic, professional and personal lives. A great resource for learning how to research!

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
Research databases at your public library.

News Websites of Interest

Books @ Your Library

Invention by Design by Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0674463684
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
How To: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems by Randall Munroe
ISBN: 9780525537090
Publication Date: 2019-09-03

Remember to Cite Sources!!

Citation Machine
Plug in your website information to create a citation!

Citing your sources doesn't have to be hard. Just remember to get the information while you are in the source!

http://www.noodletools.com/

To make an account:
-Click on Register
-For Username type your short name (email without the "@7hills.org")
-For Password type your school password
-Press Continue to create a personal account

-Start a new project and start citing!

Hint #1: Do not use the Noodletools App. Use the link to Noodletools on the web
Hint #2: For the citation "level," we recommend "starter" for middle school and "junior" for upper school.