Year 8 GeographyLandforms and Landscapes

Using the Terrace eScholar resources Using search terms in databases Using images with copyright permissions Referencing images Bibliographies - APA style Note-taking skills

What will we learn today?

Why Not Google?

Library Moodle Databases

What are databases?

A database is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents can easily be accessed.

Databases

Library Webs

Encyclopaedia Britannica

elibrary

Which Databases would be useful?

Visit the Library Website:http://libguides.terrace.qld.edu.au/home

Listed on your Year 8 Geography page or the Databases page

Enter the username and password for chosen database

How do I find databases at Terrace? Go to…

Australia AND Landscape Australia AND Landforms World Heritage Sites AND Australia Uluru AND location Uluru AND size Uluru AND geology Uluru AND Indigenous culture Uluru AND human impact Uluru AND environmental impact OR threats Uluru AND conservation Uluru AND ecological threats

Example Search Terms:Find a general search term…Find a specific search term…

Library Webs

Library Webs

Library Webs Example

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica Results

eLibrary

Select relevant retrievals

Copyright Images – Creative Commons

Hint: Use this to find copyright maps

Google with permissions

These images can be used without permission but need to be acknowledged

File history will give details of image for bibliography (wikimedia commons images only).

Alternatively select to go back to original image.

Image file history

Hint: Follow the link back to the original source to find out further details

Referencing Images in Brochure

Figure 1: Rain Forest Daintree Australia. From Australian, 2005, Retrieved from http://www.retas.de/thomas/travel/australia2005/index.html

Put on separate pagePut entries in alphabetical orderNo numbers or bullet pointsNo subheadings Include a record of all sources

used – print, online, images, maps.See Library Website - APA

Referencing

Bibliographies

Book Example:McGregor, C. (1974). The Great Barrier Reef. Amsterdam: Time-Life

Publications.

Database Example:Willandra Lakes Region. (1999). Encyclopaedia of Australia. Webster Publishing. Retrieved from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com

Website Example:United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. (2013). Lord Howe Island Group. Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/186

Image Example:Schoch, T. (2005). Rain Forest Daintree Australia [Image]. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from http://www.retas.de/thomas/travel/australia2005/index.html

Online Encyclopaedia Example:Fraser Island. (2013). In Britannica Student Encyclopaedia. Retrieved April 29, 2013 from http://school.eb.com.au/eb/article-9035206

Bibliography Examples (APA style)

Fraser Island. (2013). In Britannica Student Encyclopaedia. Retrieved April 29, 2013 from http://school.eb.com.au/eb/article-9035206

McGregor, C. (1974). The Great Barrier Reef. Amsterdam: Time-Life Publications.

Schoch, T. (2005). Rain Forest Daintree Australia [Image]. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from http://www.retas.de/thomas/travel/australia2005/index.html

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. (2013). Lord Howe Island Group. Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/186

Willandra Lakes Region. (1999). Encyclopaedia of Australia. Webster Publishing. Retrieved from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com

Bibliography (Final Copy)

Respond to your focus questions Use headings and sub headings Use bullet points DO NOT COPY AND PASTE - no thinking

involved / end product is inferior Create a bibliographic record

Ask What is the main idea?

Note Taking Skills

Note-taking Task

Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. (2013). Lord Howe Island Group. Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/186

Focus Qu 1: What are the geological features of Lord Howe Island?Focus Qu 2: What are the major landscape features of Lord Howe Island?

Focus Qu 1: What are the geological features of Lord Howe Island?

Focus Qu 2: What are the major landscape features of Lord Howe Island?