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Spanish Speaking Country Study

Assignment:

You will build a PowerPoint of 7-10 slides of facts about your country including

• cultural information
• population statistics
• economic statistics
• any other interesting facts

How to create a research assignment

When you give information in a research project, you paraphrase or summarize it—that means you read the facts then tell them in your own words.

QUOTING (taking sentences directly form a source) is allowed, but you have to GIVE CREDIT.

To give credit you first put the words, phrases or sentences you are copying in quotation marks (“….”).  Then, at the bottom of the slide, you will put the URL (web address) telling where you got the information.

Having good information is more important

How to find a book in the library

1. Go to your homepage www.irvingisd.net/travis then click on “library”
2. Click on “Find a Book”
3. Enter the name of country in the Aquabrowser and click “enter”
4. Write down the shelf address of the book.  It will have letters and numbers like
   1. 364.92 MEX
   2. 362.349 SMI
   3. 941.667 GAR
5. Go to the shelf to find the book—they are in numerical order—300’s and 600’swill be about culture and 900’s will be about history

How to use the databases we have

1. Go to your homepage www.irvingisd.net/travis then click on “library”
2. Click “Online Research”
3. Choose a database or encyclopedia or NetTrekker
   1. Britannica –online encyclopedia
   2. World Book (choose Student or Discovery)—online encyclopedia
   3. NetTrekker—a search engine perfect for school assignments—like Google for schools
   4. Gale—a service that gives excerpts from many research books