Library in Aviation
Student Flight Plan
Ready for Research?
No, this is not the old school way with a dusty card
catalog and books and the librarian with a pencil in her bun whispering,
"hush." This is a new day and there is a new way with cyberspace
and CD ROMS
and email, too. Research is no longer confined to what is within the
walls
of your school library. And students are making decisions about where
and
what to research.
You have a challenge before you. You have the opportunity to help design
an
aviation academy and to tell the School Board what courses should be included
and why. This is a chance for you to have a say in what you learn and
how
you demonstrate what you learn.
You will need to have the facts. You will need to do the research.
Fiction
will not get the job done. You will have choices and you will be able
to
make decisions about your education, your career, and your future. Are
you
ready for the challenge?
Your Task
Review your task under the Student Travel
Itinerary page.
Getting Started
There are lots of aviation resources available both
in print and electronic formats.
Cyberspace research is not much different from searching for information in
books and magazines. Once you determine the subject and map out your course
for research you will be on your way.
As a group you will want to decide how to approach your investigation.
1. What is the task? What is it that is expected?
2. What resources are available? Which ones are best?
3. What search strategies will your group use?
4. What will you do with the information? How will you synthesize the
data?
5. What does the final product look like?
Links:
Created for the FermilabLInC
program sponsored by FermiNational Accelerator
Laboratory EducationOffice and Friendsof
Fermilab, and funded by UnitedStates Department
of Energy, IllinoisState Board
of Education, NorthCentral Regional Technology
in Education Consortium whichis operated by North
Central RegionalEducational Laboratory (NCREL), and the NationalScience
Foundation.
Author(s): Sandra Lane (sandlane90@hotmail.com)
School: Vallejo High School, Vallejo, CA
Created: February 15, 2001 - Updated: December 28, 2002
URL: /lincon/w01/projects/aviation/librarystart.htm