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 PATHFINDERS                
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety 
of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as
they begin their research project.

The Solar System

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Enter the topic you want to search in the keyword search box.  You might try searching under planets, solar system, universe, space, outer space, Mars, etc.
 

Some titles we have are:

520
AST		 Astronomy. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest, 1998.
520
KER		 Kerrod, Robin. Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2003.
523.1
DAV		 Davis, Kenneth C. Don't Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About the Cosmos but Never Learned.  New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
523.4
FRA		 Fradin, Dennis Brindell. The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
REF
520
ILL		 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe.  New York: Watson-Guptill, 2001.
REF
523.2
SOL		 The Solar System. (3 vols.)  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, Inc., 1998.


SELECTED WEB SITES

Solar System Exploration
 http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm
NASA site with recently updated information on the solar system.  Click on the planet you want to research.

A Guide to Our Solar System
 http://www.planetary.org/learn/solarsystem/index.html
This site includes recently updated information on the planets, posted by the Planetary Society.

Global Information Resources: The Solar System 
 http://www.spacetoday.org/Weblinks/solarsystem.html
This site is published by Anthony Curtis, a space analyst & historian.  It has many links to sites with information on the planets.

Views of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
Click on "Contents" to calculate your age and weight on other planets, click on "What's New" for recent images, or click on the planet you are researching.

   

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and  TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from 
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the 
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/17/08
Date last edited
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