Year+10+Polymers


 * YEAR 10 BIG IDEAS OF SCIENCE** **POLYMERS PROJECT 2011**

Welcome Year 10 Science students to this pathfinder where you will be guided to a range of resources to assist you in completing your task investigating a genetic disorder. Remeber to use a variety of information sources (books, online and encyclopedias) during the research and presentation stages of your task. Click on the assignment sheet to ensure you understand exactly what it is you need to do.

Then refer to the [|Information Skills Research Model]and follow the six steps outlined to plan, research and evaluate this this task. You will also need to submit a bibliography and cite any resources that you use within the body of your work. Refer to the OLMC Years 10-12 Style Guide.

You may find relevant information on the shelves according to the relevant Dewey numbers:
 * 500 & 507 Science textbooks
 * 540 Chemistry textbooks and books

On the library catalogue, search engines, encyclopedias, book indexes and contents you could try searching with the following __**KEYWORDS**__ to help you locate relevant resources for your research:


 * polymer, plastics, nylon, polyethylene, high density polyethylene, high density polypropylene, polypropylene, polycarbonate. Try searching with your polymer products, such as plastic umbrellas.


 * Also try your polymer name + the word properties = nylon + the word properties

** BOOKS & ENCYCLOPEDIAS **
Be sure to check out the Science textbooks and World Book Encyclopedia (Volume P) and refer to the __**index pages**__.

**DATABASES**
To access e-Library, go to the Portal - Library subscriptions - Electric Library newspaper and magazine database. You will find the login there.

Access Science is a database the OLMC Library is trialling. For access follow the link at []. Go to login on the top right hand corner. Add the username and password provided by one of the Teacher Librarians.

[|Plastics & Chemicals Industries Assocations Learning Centre] -

[|Key Centre for Polymer & Colloids](University of Sydney) -

[|Polymer Science Learning Centre](University of Southern Mississippi) -

[|Kinds of Polymers] (University of Southern Mississippi) -

[|Macrogalleria of Polymers] (University of Southern Mississippi) -

[|Polymer Tutorial]-

[|How are polymers made?] Article from Scientific American that discusses polyethylene.

[|Fibre Source] -

[|ipl2 -]

[|Sweet Search] -

[|Google]