Winman Library: Countries

Research Tips and Tricks:

1.  Make sure that your sources are RELIABLE.  Here's a poster to help you remember questions to ask yourself when considering a website for a resource::  Poster: 5Ws of Website Evaluation

2.  Avoid plagiarism.  Here's a quick video to remind you how to avoid stealing other people's work.  

3.  Set up a graphic organizer or note-taking system:

There are many ways to take notes, but you should include the following key points on sources that you use:

• Citation, including author, title, publisher, date of publication, date of access
• Notes (key words and phrases; avoid using whole sentences unless you plan to use an in-text citation)
• Click here to see an example of a note taking template

4.  Keep track of resources as you use them!!

1. Culturegrams, Kids Edition: Learn more about the world around you. Each report contains images, historical timelines, and fun facts, along with sections on history, population, “life as a kid,” games and sports, education, and more. 

• Sign in information for CultureGrams:   username:  rilinkcgrams     password:  cgrams

2. World Book Kids and FactMonster also have nice summaries.

3.  World Book Online Encyclopedia is excellent for background information and topic ideas:  World Book Advanced Link

Image Source:  Free Vector

• BBC Country Profiles

  Country profiles from the BBC.

• Country Reports

  A great source for finding top-line information about just about every country in the world, including culture, geography, economy, political system, news, maps, and more.

• InfoPlease

  This site provides info on: Geography · Maps · Flag · History · Current ruler · Area · Population · Capital · Largest cities · Languages · Ethnicity/race · Religion · Literacy rate · Economy · Government for each country.

• Canadian Provinces and Territories

  By the Canadian government, includes information about the provinces and territories.

• World Culture Encyclopedia

  Check out this site for information on gender roles, family, food, religion and more. This is a higher reading level site.

• A Culinary World Tour

  Recipes from around the world.

• Holidays and Observances Around the World

  This site can be searched by country to identify holidays that are celebrated.

• National Geographic

  This site includes a map and information about travel and wildlife in the country.

• The Economist- Countries

  This site provides a map and information on economic growth use the pull down menu on the summary tab to identify basic country information like land area, population, big cities, weather, language and currency.

Find books in the library:

Search these sites for images you can use freely.

• Photos for Class 
• Pixabay 
• Pics4learning