PATHFINDERS
Research tools to point you in the right direction to find useful information about specific topics.
How to Find Information for School Assignments.
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- Biography
- Find books, databases and web sites for your report about the lives of current and historical people.
- Career Guides and Job Searching
- Look at this guide for tips and guidance on searching for jobs, internships, writing resumes, job interviews and careers.
- Countries of the World
- Easier than Google, this guide will help you find relevant information about any country in the world.
- Discovering Ancient Egypt
- This guide is designed for junior and senior high school students who have been assigned to do a report on Ancient Egypt.
- Evaluating Web Pages
- Not everything is reliable on the Web! Use this guide to help you evaluate which Internet resources are reliable and which are not.
- Gun Control
- This guide will show you how to best look for articles, pictures, and books on researching the pros and cons of gun ownership.
Health
This guide will lead you to reliable information in books, magazines, databases, web sites and search engines.
Immigration
Use this guide for suggestions on how to find information about this hot topic in books, databases and web sites.
- Literary Criticism
- If you need to find out the underlying themes and meanings of a book, play, poem or essay, this guide will guide you to find such resources to help you do that.
- Mythology
- Greek, Roman & Egyptian mythology information is at your fingertips when you use this guide.
- Natural Disasters
- This guide is designed for those students that need guidance on doing a school assignment on earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, volcanoes and other natural disasters.
- Pictures, Images & Photos
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Having difficulty finding the right image for your project? Look at this pathfinder for guidance on how to find the right picture, image or photo for your assignment.
- Science Fair Guide
- Having trouble finding a good idea for a science fair project? Not sure what the scientific method is? This guide is designed for junior and high school students who need help on finding good science fair project ideas and using the scientific method in their project.
- Teen Pregnancy
- Use this helpful guide in researching information for assignments on teen pregnancy.
- World Book Encyclopedia Online
- This database offers information on a wide range of topics. Recommendations for books, magazine articles and web sites are also available in the online version of this well known resource.
School Violence
This guide will show you where to find reliable information in books, magazines, databases and web sites.
Violence in the Media
This pathfinder will help anyone doing research for a project on media violence and how this media violence affects children and teens.


