Leukemia

= Leukemia = = 1. Task Definition : fill in the < > Topic:= **Sample Essential Question (establish a focus for your research)** Should we be spending more money on finding a cure for leukemia? **List Supporting Questions (provide background and guide your research):**
 * **1. Who has been researching and trying to find a cure? ** ||
 * **2. Suppose they did make a cure, how might this change the fate of some people? ** ||
 * **3. How can it be diagnosed? ** ||
 * **4. In what ways can it be treated? ** ||
 * **5. What are some ways to treat it? ** ||
 * <[[file:Think_before_you_begin.pdf]]>worksheet **

==** 2. Information seeking strategies: Use these Keywords to search online databases for books, articles and websites. Use Boolean Operators ( AND, OR, NOT ) to combine these terms and refine your search: **==
 * **Cancer ** ||  || **Blood Clotting ** ||   || **Bone Marrow ** ||   || **White Blood Cells ** ||
 * **Red Blood Cells ** ||  || **Lymphatic System ** ||   || **Platelets ** ||   || **Leukemia ** ||


 * = **362.1 **
 * Living with a Physical illness (Social services) ** ||=  ||= **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">616.1 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cardiovascular diseases ** ||=  ||= **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">616.99 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tumors and Cancers ** ||=  ||


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 616 ** |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MER The Merck Manual of Medical Information ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 616.003 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DIS Diseases: Abscess-Bone Diseases Volume 1 ** ||  ||

Click on the Thomas Dale OPAC(Online Catalog) to locate additional books in our collection

Library home page with links to the databases

 * Sample Subscription Database searches: **
 * [[file:le_gro.pdf]] || [[file:le_brit.pdf]] ||
 * Now do your own search || Now do your own search ||

Sample Advanced Google searches:

 * [[file:le_advgoogle.pdf]] ||

Three excellent web sites:

 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bone Marrow Transplant-Leukemia ** ||  || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Leukemia ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Leukemia, National Cancer Institute ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click here to see the web page ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click here to see the web page || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click here to see the web page ||

Advanced Google search screen

Step 4: Use of Information; take notes; record bibliographic information for each source.
See citation & notecard guides under Roadmap to Research on the main library page. Use the <>, Citation Machine or Easy Bib for your works Cited list.

Step 6. Evaluate your work that you have successfully completed all steps.
See <>; <>.


 * Steps in the “Big6™” are copyright © (1987) Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. For more on Big6, visit: www.big6.com **