Reference+Helpers

**Websites ** **1. Click to go to** [|Australia Day] This resource is a Wikipedia page. It talks about the significance of the date of 26th January, 1788 from two different perspectives. What happened on this date? What are the different opinions about how the day should be observed ? Why do you think there is this difference? Search for other descriptions of what ‘Australia Day’ is. What do you notice? **2.Click to go to** [|Map – the Journey of the First Fleet] This interactive map is an interpretation of the journey taken by the First Fleet from Portsmouth, England to what the British called ‘Botany Bay’. Click on the ports to access information about each one via links to Wikipedia. What additions could be made to the map to make it more useful to you as a researcher ? **3. Click to go to** Map - [|Indigenous Language Map]. This map is an interpretation of the number of indigenous languages that existed before the arrival of the First Fleet. What are your first thoughts about the map? Examine the map and find the author and the date that it was created. You can find out more about indigenous languages in Australia by clicking on the map. **TIP:** Click [|here] for help on evaluating information on the web! ** Call number: 423 OGI **  ** TIP: ** Need help with call numbers? Click [|here] for a reminder on how they work! This is the <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">dictionary you use at school! Use it to <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">search for the meanings of any key words in FleetStreets and your further research in this area. Think also about other kinds of dictionaries that you might try – which one(s) are most successful in giving you // useful // results?
 * Reference Helpers **
 * TIP: ** Click [|here] for help with comparisons and [|here] for help with search engines!
 * TIP ** : The text in the links could be tricky to read. How could you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">search for easier pages? Click [|here] for help with key words !
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">Book ** **<span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">1. Ogilvie, Sarah (2006). The First Australian Dictionary **