Marine Biology 10: Ms. Furdal
Marine Mammal Research Assignment (2021)
Welcome to the learning commons, Marine Biology 10! Below, you will find resources to help you with your project.
Where to start?
Here are some things that you need to consider:
- Start your research using Research Data Bases. These are vetted sources e.g. Gale: Canadian Issues in Context, Science in Context, Ebsco Host, Worldbook, Curio.ca
- As you do your research add to your References (this saves you having to go back later and try to find where you got your information from).
- Be sure to add EasyBib to your add-ons in docs.
- The databases will create an APA citation for you.
Note Taking Template
- This will help you to organize your research and think critically about the information you gather.
Avoid Plagiarism! What is paraphrasing? What are direct quotes?
When/if you go to the open internet for resources, be sure to critically evaluate them before taking “information” from them.
Critical Evaluation of Internet Resources –>Lateral Search
- Source? What do you know about who is “publishing” this information? Is this organization/person reputable? What are their credentials?
- Identify the claim and see if other sites verify this claim.
- date? Especially in science, as technology develops and the environment changes we want to find information from the most recent research.
We have pulled some books from our collection that are related to this project. Feel free to look through these and sign out any that you feel will support your research.
Don’t forget about the RBSS Databases, click HERE
For ideas to start your research click HERE.
To determine your organism’s scientific name click HERE.
Some great websites to start your research:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Animal Classification/Taxonomy
National Geographic (use the search tool in this site)
Science Daily News (use the search tool in this site)
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Marine mammals coming back to the Salish Sea
Shaw Ocean Discovery Center:
Did you Know? Some interesting facts about the organisms in the Coast Salish Sea
Straight of Georgia Data Centre: Marine Species List