Pathfinder: What's With the Weather in the S-G Library Media Center

Paragraph One: Cover the Topic and Describe the Phenomena

Read an article in Encyclopedia Britannica Online or read an introductory website like The Disaster Area. Or use HIP (Horizon Information Portal) to find books.
Or browse the shelves for the following nonfiction numbers:	Environment 363.7 Weather 551

Paragraph Two and Three: Find Portals and Databases to Research One Specific Incident

Information Portals

Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters (search)

CNN Weather

Earthquake Hazard Center

FirstGov: U.S. Government Web Portal

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Weather Service

National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center

NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks

Databases to Locate Magazine and Newspaper Articles (See Mrs. Tunison for passwords. Database companies will not allow passwords on a website.)

Paragraph Three: Adding Details

Scirus (text search engine, like Google)

Why Files (Google based search engine that helps to answer questions)

Kartoo (graphic search engine that looks at several different search engines)

 

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