Step 3
Locate Sources:

a. Based on your preresearch and the assignment, what questions do you have about your individual related to the assignment? Examples:

1. Where was John Muir born?
2. What was his childhood like?
3. What was his family like?
4. Where did he live during his life?
5. When did he start to care about the environment?
6. Why did he choose to devote his life to the environment?
7. What did he accomplish?
8. Did he know any other people I've read or learned about?
9. How did his lifetime accomplishments and work effect people and events during his lifetime?
10. How did his lifetime accomplishments and work effect my every day routines and life?
11. How did his lifetime accomplishments and work effect America then and now?

b. What resources at school, home, the libraries, do you have access to as you learn about your topic. Examples:

1. Books from the CMS, Concord or Boston public libraries; Encyclopedias; Social Studies textbook
2. Online databases off of the library web site
3. Research links already gathered on the growth of a nation research links page.
4. other websites I might find through Google (PBS websites are very good)

c. What key words will you use when you research on web sites, online databases or in books.  Examples:

1. Keywords - John Muir, conservation, national parks, Roosevelt, California, 1800s, environment, environmentalists, national forests, Sierra Club, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia trees .
2. Click here for an article I found on John Muir using online databases. 
3. Image from American Memory:

John Muir and President Roosevelt in 1906 at Yosemite. See the full photo at memory.loc.gov. Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-110212]

The six steps outlined in this website are based in part on the Big6 developed by Michael Eisenberg and Robert Berkowitz. Click here to visit Step 3 on their Discovery website.