Science Information on the Web and at the State Library of PA Kathy Hale Government Documents Librarian kahale@pa.gov

How do I discover what is at the State Library?

How do I access the State Library’s services? www.statelibrary.pa.gov Click on “For General Public” “Find the Collections” From this page you can search the online catalog, go to the POWER Library, or search through digital collections

How to get to the State Library’s online catalog

State Library Online catalog

Search for what’s in the catalog Click on “Guided search” tab to put in more than one word

Results Default is ‘relevence’ (how many times your search terms appear) List can be sorted by date or title Click on title to see more information

State Library catalog U.S. documents links All electronic documents have a link out to GPO

Where do I find good websites? http://gws.ala.org/ Great websites for kids American Library Association

USA.GOV https://www.usa.gov/ Searching over all of U.S. government

Science .gov www.science.gov

Kids.gov www.kids.gov Looks over materials especially for students

Government documents online http://catalog.gpo.gov/F/LTFNJQS3347UPHB HMI8CCQEJ9839NUD1PJ5TN1TNCQUCSRQFFE -23446?func=find-b-0 Government publications especially e-books

SCI4KIDS ARS : http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/ Different slide shows, podcasts, and other interesting articles about all sorts of science

EPA Science Fair ideas http://www2.epa.gov/students/science-fair- project-ideas

NASA http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/science-fair/en/

NOAA http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/science-fair/ NASA and NOAA together

Other places to go Science Fair Project ideas http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/how-to-do-a-science-fair-project/ http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/science-fair/en/ http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/ https://kids.usa.gov/teens/science/science-fair-projects/index.shtml https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/scifair.html http://missionscience.nasa.gov/scientist/sci_fair_gallery.html https://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=sf_experiments#sf_intermediate

More sources for Science Day projects http://www.all-science-fair- projects.com/category37.html http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/science- projects/c/science-fair-projects http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer- bullets/environmentaltb.html#subhead http://www.juliantrubin.com/forensicprojects.ht ml https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer- bullets/forensicstb.html

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