Research – notes taken from at least 3 references with bibliography info.Summarize information relating to your topic taken from at least three resources: books, magazines, websites, DVD’s, conversations with experts, etc. This background information will help you formulate your experiment question and hypothesis, and appear in your final written report as Research. Be sure to rewrite the information in your own words, do not copy directly from the resource. After each summary include bibliography information from the resource that you used:
Here's how to write Bibliography information:
1. Write the author's last name, first name and middle name or initial.
2. Write the name of the article or chapter from your source in quotes.
3. Write the title of the book or source.
4. Write the place where your source was published followed by a colon.
5. Write the publisher name, date and volume followed by a colon and the page numbers.
Tips:
1. Here is an example for a book or magazine -- Smith, John B., 'Science Fair Fun' Experiment Time, New York: Sterling Pub. Co., May 1990, Vol. 2:10-25.
2. Here is an example for a Web site -- Bailey, Regina, About.com Biology Site, Mar. 9, 2000.
3. Here is an example for a conversation -- Martin, Clara, Telephone Conversation, Jan. 8, 2000.
Write your summaries and Bibliography info in your logbook.
Friday, February 15, 2013
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