Pathfinders
Inventions and Inventors
Subject headings, keywords
Inventions, inventors, technology
Dewey Numbers
391, 608.7, 609, 609.2, 621.383, 623.82, 629.13092, 920.02, 920.093, 920.2, 993.0092
Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta,
Information file (John Britten)
On-line databases and websites:
Britannica Online and Discovery Collection can be accessed through EPIC database: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
In the orange highlighted area 'login to databases'
TKI login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to 'Britannica online K-12' or the 'Discovering Collection'
"access database" in blue box
Type in Search terms and choose either Primary, Secondary or High School options.Check out these new search engines:
http://www.bing.com/
http://duckduckgo.com/
http://www.google.co.nz/ After you have done a search, click on 'show options' (just above the search results) Scroll down and click on the 'wonder wheel'. This is a visual mind map and will give you related topics/keywords.
http://www.refseek.com/
http://www.viewzi.com/
Websites for specific topics:http://digitalnz.org/ - has audio/video clips and photographs of NZ inventors & inventions
http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=inventors
http://www.packagingtoday.com/introplasticexplosion.htm plastic/polythene/Tupperware
http://inventors.about.com/od/qrstartinventors/a/Q.htm world wide listing
http://www.enchantedlearning.com
http://www.ideafinder.com/features/classact/women.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_inventors
www.nzedge.com - for a list of NZ inventors
http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/about_hamiltonjet/sir_william_hamilton
http://motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=381 - tribute to Burt Munro
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1 - Sir Edmund Hillary
http://www.rutherford.org.nz - Sir Ernest Rutherford
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/Inventions/Inventors/