NAPERVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

Mrs. Blaskovich

Sept. 2001-Jan. 2002

 

Students should select a country for the project. From past experience with this project some countries are more easily researched than others. Consult with your teacher and/or one of the staff members in the library for suggestions and hints.

Suggested time frame

First information gathering:

Use the NNHS library or your public library to search for general information on the country:

• General encyclopedias (print or CD ROM) and general reference tools
• Verticial file items, expecially the Culturegrams and Background notes found in the files by country name 

Second information gathering:

Use the following to locate more information about your country and its education system:

ProQuest

an online magazine and newspaper subscription database

account name and passwords provided by the librarian

limit your search to articles in 2000 or 2001

Search library databases for books about the education in your country

 

• College of DuPage
• Illinet online
• DuPage Library System -- web access to the MAGIC Public Access Catalog
• books must have no older than 1990 publication date

Search engines

keywords such as education, teaching or school and the name of your country (in noun and/or adjective form)

print information relevant

Connection to people and/or consulates/embassies

 at NNHS, talk to :

foreign language teachers

ESL teachers

Mrs. Blaskovich for names of other teachers who have recently visited foreign countries

seek community/church/family contacts from your country

local Spearker's Bureau

retired community members

church members

from the phone book and the Internet locate an embassy or consulate for your country

try to find a Chicago location

use a Washington D.C. location if there is no Chicago location

find an email address, if possible, to use to gather further information via this medium

find a phone number and address to keep as a back up, if email does not work as an option

This is Chicago! International Services

Yahoo sites

Escape Artist embassy pages

Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S. (prepared by the International Center at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

U.S. Department of State consular offices page

Locate a school in your country and establish a communication through email

Web66 International school registry

Yahoo list of schools

Library Spot schools lists

Research paper requirements.