6th Grade

Project Guidelines

• You will be assigned a great speech in history (document with all speeches here). Using primary and secondary sources, you will develop questions and research:
  • the person who delivered the speech
  • the time period in which the speech was given
• You will be responsible for creating a minimum of three notecards, a written paragraph, a declamation presentation, and a Works Consulted

Notecards

• You must have a minimum of three notecards, answering the following questions:
  • Notecard 1:
    • Who is this person?
    • When were they alive?
    • Where are they from?
    • Infer: how did this person's background or life experience influence their work?
  • Notecard 2:
    • What did they do?
    • Infer: Why are they important?
  • Notecard 3:
    • What was happening in their country/the world at this time? Did this influence their actions/work?
    • Infer: How does this make their work especially important?
• Example notecard

Works Consulted

• Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
• Minimum of two total sources for this project

Websites (specific)

• Susan B. Anthony
  • National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony
  • Gale in Context: "Women's Suffrage Movement"
• Benazir Bhutto
  • Academy of Achievement
  • Daily Life Through History: "Muslim Women and the Family in Pakistan"
• César Chávez
  • Scholastic News
  • Gale in Context: "United Farm Workers of America"
• Hillary Clinton
  • The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Gale in Context: "Women's Rights"
• Elizabeth I
  • The Royal Family: Elizabeth I (r.1558–1603)
  • Britannica Academic: "Elizabethan Age"
• Indira Gandhi
  • JFK Presidential Library: Indira Gandhi
  • Schlager Group: "A Celebration of Women's Rights"
• Mahatma Gandhi
  • Library of Congress Blogs
  • Britannica School: "Salt March"
• Lyndon B. Johnson
  • LBJ Presidential Library
  • African-American History: "Civil Rights movement"
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • The Nobel Prize: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Harvard Magazine
• John F. Kennedy
  • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
  • Gale in Context: "Space Race"
• Abraham Lincoln
  • Britannica Academic: "Abraham Lincoln"
  • Gale in Context: "U.S. Civil War"
• Nelson Mandela
  • Nelson Mandela Foundation
  • NPR: The Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out of Prison
• Kwame Nkrumah
  • Stanford University: Nkrumah, Kwame
  • The Conversation
• Barack Obama
  • National Grographic Kids: "Barack Obama"
  • The Buckley School: On This Day
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  • FDR Presidential Library: Eleanor Roosevelt Biography
  • Gale in Context: "Cold War"
• Greta Thunberg
  • BBC: Greta Thunberg
  • United Nations
• Sojourner Truth
  • Sojourner Truth Memorial
  • Gale in Context: "Speech at the American Women's Rights Convention at Akron, Ohio"
• Emma Watson
  • UN Women
  • Gale in Context: "Closing the Gap"
• Elie Wiesel
  • The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
  • Gale in Context: "A Holocaust Remembrance"
• Liu Xiaobo
  • Pen America: Liu Xiaobo
  • Gale in Context: "Communist Party in China"

Websites (general)

• American Battlefield Trust
• BBC
• Library of Congress
• National Archives
• National Women's History Museum
• New York Times
• Nobel Peace Prize
• PBS
• Peace Corps
• Time Magazine
• United Nations
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The White House

Databases

• African American History
• American History
• Britannica Academic
• Britannica School
• Daily Life Through History
• Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• World Book Student
• World Book Timelines

Works Consulted

• You must use a minimum of TWO sources
  • If using a website not listed here, you must fill out a website evaluation form. Share it with Ms. Molina to get it approved before you begin using the website for research.

Images

• All image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
• Choose Google Images → Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses

Books

• Available on the book cart; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic

Databases

• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Gale eBooks (database → book)
• World Book Student (database → original content)
• World Religions (database → original content)

Websites:

• British Museum (website → web page)
• Sanatan Society (website → web page)

Works Consulted

• You must use a minimum of TWO sources
• Sources may only be from online or print encyclopedias and books (no websites)

Images

• Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
• If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
• When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses

Databases

• World Book Student (database → original content)
• Britannica Academic (database → original content)
• Salem Press Encyclopedia (database → original content)
  • Kosher
  • Sabbath 
  • Simchat Torah
  • Sukkot 
  • Yom Hashoah

Books

• On loan from MS Library in the Religion room; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic

Databases

• Britannica Academic
• Britannica School
• Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• World Book Student

Websites

• CNN: "NASA Mission Detects First Seismic Waves Traveling Through the Center of Mars"
• CNN: "This Is How We Should Build on Mars"
• Discover: "Astronauts Get Sick, Too. Here's the Tech That Could Grow Medicine on Mars"
• NASA: "Exercising in Space"
• NASA: "Fission Surface Power"
• NASA: "How to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation on Mars"
• NASA: "The Human Body in Space"
• NASA" "Human Spaceflight Hazards"
• NASA: "Mars Exploration Rovers"
• NASA: "NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions"
• NASA: "Science Investigations"
• NASA Mars: "Electrical Power"
• NASA Science: Mars Communication
• NASA Science: Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment
• NASA Solar System Exploration: Mars
• The Planetary Society: "Your Guide to Water on Mars"
• Science the Wire: "What Do You Actually Do With Garbage on Mars?"
• Universe Magazine: "First Plant for Growing on Mars Selected"
• UNSW Sydney: Mars Settlement

Databases

• Britannica Academic
• Britannica School
• Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• World Book Student

Websites

• BBC: "The Epic Quest to Build a Permanent Moon Base"
• "Headspace: How Space Travel Affects Astronaut Mental Health"
• NASA: Artemis Mission ("Why We Are Going to the Moon")
• NASA: "Gravity of the Moon's Crust"
• NASA: "Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil"
• NASA: "NASA Successfully Extracts Oxygen from Lunar Soil Stimulant"
• NASA: "How NASA Will Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation at the Moon"
• NASA: "Solar Power Investigation to Launch on Lunar Lander"
• Science: "Moon Safe for Long-Term Human Exploration"

Databases

• Britannica Academic
• Britannica School
• Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• World Book Student

Websites

• "AI for Ocean Exploration: Is an AI Colony Possible in the Deep Sea?"
• Atlas Obscura: "What It's Like to Live on the Sea Floor"
• BBC: "Will We Ever Live in Underwater Cities?"
• EPA's Web Archive: "Geothermal Energy"
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "Ocean Floor Features"
• NOAA: Ocean Exploration
• Oceana: "Sea Floor Habitat Types"
• Ocean Info
• PBS
• Sciencing: "Plants That Live on the Ocean Floor"
• "Scientists Map Huge Undersea Fresh-Water Aquifer Off U.S. Northeast"
• Unveiled: "What if We Colonized the Ocean?"
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "Fresh Water Below the Sea Floor?"

Images

• Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
• If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
• When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses

Databases

• Britannica School
• World Book Student

Websites

• Actors:
  • Getty Images
• General:
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • Library of Congress (make sure to change drop-down menu to "photos, prints, drawings")
• Fabric:
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • National Gallery of Art
• Food:
  • Colonial Williamsburg 
  • Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Colonial Tea
• Maps:
  • Brooklyn Historical Society: The Ratzer Map
  • Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Timeline/map
  • Library of Congress: New York maps from 1700-1799 
• Make-up during the Georgian era (1714-1830):
  • BBC

Project Guidelines

• For this project, you will research an element on the periodic table
• For your element, you will create: 
  • A research summary with a works consulted page
  • A creative poster to present to your classmates

Works Consulted

• Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
• Minimum of two total informational sources for this project

Databases

• Britannica School (database → original content)
• World Book Student (database → original content)

Websites (on NoodleTools: website → web page [need to hunt around on the page for information])

• JLab Science Education
• Chemistry Explained
• The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements
• WebElements
• Bohr Models for first 20 Elements

Project Guidelines

• You will conduct weekly research and produce a Works Consulted of all your sources
• You will produce two major pieces of work:
  • Presentation: three-minute talk accompanied with a detailed visual in the form of a poster or slides
  • Physical model: detailed hand-crafted representation of the Sun, moon, planet or exoplanet

Works Consulted

• Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
• Minimum of five total sources for this project

Images

• Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
• If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
• When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses

Databases

• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• Gale in Context: Science
• World Book Student (database → original content)

Websites

• Bill Nye: Planets and Moons
• NASA Science: Solar System Exploration
• NASA 9 Planets Information
• NASA Planets and Dwarf Planets
• NASA Pluto & Dwarf Planets
• NASA Moons of Our Solar System
• The Planetary Society (Dwarf Planets) 
• National Geographic: Our Solar System
• PBS Nova
• PBS videos:
  • Earth
  • Jupiter
  • Mars
  • Mercury
  • Neptune
  • Pluto
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Venus
  • Europa
  • Io
  • Haumea
  • How Did We Discover Exoplanets?

Works Consulted

• Must have at least THREE informational sources
  • One must be from a database

Images

• Get all images from the Photos for Class website

Databases

• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Daily Life Through History: The Holocaust
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• Gale in Context: Biography
• Modern World History
• World Book Student (database → original content)

Websites

• Academy of Achievement (Elie Wisel)
• Anne Frank House Museum
• The Anti-Defamation League
• Auschwitz Memorial and Museum
• British Library: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Center for Humanity
• The Holocaust Explained
• IWitness
• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
• The National Archives
• The Nazi Concentration Camps
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Oskar Schindler
• USC Shoah Foundation
• Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
• Yale: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies