World War I and Its Impact on Canada

Year 5: Individuals and Societies

Research assignment

For this project, the website, books, and primary resources the library has to offer are:

• Print (book & primary) -- These are on a cart for you in the library
• Reference books
• Nonfiction books
• Online (website & primary) -- Check out this website
• Encyclopedias
• Reliable websites

Online Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica

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• World Book

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Username: learn45 Password: westvan

These can be used to find background information.

Databases

History:

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Academic:

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Specific to Canada:

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Reliable Websites

Some of the best websites to rely on when looking for artifacts are museum, education, or government websites.

Examples:

• Canadian War Museum: Primary artifacts and documents
• Veterans Canada: Secondary source information
• Government of Canada: Indigenous contributions during the First World War: Secondary source information
• Canadian Military History (Department of National Defense): Secondary source information
• Ontario’s Soldiers’ Aid Commission: Secondary source information with some primary artifacts
• Wartime Canada: Primary artifacts and documents
• Canada's First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca: Secondary sources
• Canada’s Human Rights History: Secondary source for racism, War Measures Act
• Canada History Project: World War I conscription
• TC2 Source Docs: Primary source information for internment
• Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund: Primary and secondary source information found under the "Resources" tab
• Vimy Foundation: Vimy Ridge

You can find links to these on the link in Google Classroom.

Now, what do I do with my source information?

• Use NoodleTools: www.noodletools.com

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New account?

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Click “Log In” --

Then, click “REGISTER”

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School username: rockridge

School PW: ravens2023

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Create a new personal ID and PW (use the same as your Google Classroom login)

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Old account?

Revalidation PW: ravens2023

Did you forget your username or password? Try your Google Classroom username and password.

(Doesn’t work? Check in at the circulation desk.)

Then, add info to NoodleTools

• Create a + New Project.

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• Create a Project Title
• Choose:
• Chicago
• Advanced
• Click “Submit”

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Citation creation

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• Go to “+ New Source”
• Where is it? “Database” or “Website” or “Print”
• What is it? Choose what matches the original source.
• Fill out the information to create your image citation

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Looks like:

Adding

information:

1. Fill in the information

needed:

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Creating a Footnote

1. In your Google Doc, click “Insert” → choose “Footnote”.
2. Format for footnote
1. Author
2. Title
3. Pointer to information (i.e. page #)
3. Example:

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Creating a Footnote in NoodleTools

Click the three vertical dots next to the citation . . .

Bibliography in NoodleTools . . .

You can export your citations to Google Docs, and it will create the page for you.

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(Citations are always in alphabetical order by author/creator -- see the highlighted names.)

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Works Cited