Kids InfoBits
A great place to find information about your animal!
I've chosen an animal for my research project. What now?
A great place to start is by clicking on Kids InfoBits found on the library's database website. Kids InfoBits will give you almost all of the information you need for this assignment.
This is what Kids InfoBits looks like.
You can see six different categories for a variety of topics. Which category should I choose?
I'll want to choose "Animals" of course!
When I click on "Animals" a popup shows different animal categories. You would click on the group that your animal fits into. Let's pretend I've chosen to study canaries.
Groups of Animals
See birds? Canaries are birds so I will click on that.
Oh No!
I don't see "canary" listed! What do I do?
Try a search term.
I typed in "canary" in the search box at the top of the screen. I wonder if that will work?
Wow!
I got all kinds of results! How do I know what to click on?
Books?
I looked at the results for "Books" and found "canary". This has a lot of information I need! It all comes from an online encyclopedia.
Tools
OK I found what I need. How do I keep the information to use for my project? There are a lot of choices. I think the best thing to do is to "Print" my article.
I need a picture for my project.
Can I get one from Kids InfoBits? Yes! Go back to your results and scroll down to find "Pictures". Find a picture you like and click on it. This is what I found. Look at the tools section and you will see "Dowload". Now you can use it in your project!
More Tools!
If you look way up at the top right of the webpage you will see another Tools. If you had clicked on "Save" for any of the results, you will find them saved for you here.
More uses for Tools!!
Tools also lets you print, email, share, bookmark, cite, and download the information you want.
Now you are ready to put together all of your information!
Remember to check your rubric to make sure you've found all the facts your teacher asks for! Don't forget to give credit to whomever you found the information from. Have fun!