A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT

AND IT NEVER WAS THE SAME.

An interdisciplinary unit focusing on the interrelationship of rivers, geography, cultural heritage, economics, history, ecology and current events in selected watersheds.

Sean McGuan
Lincoln School 4th-5th grade
Project dates: September 9 - November 25, 1996

Welcome! Many research resources are available in the library. Here are a some you will find in the Technology Center:

The Internet - World Wide Web

• The Crooked River Project - research reports on the Cuyahoga River.
• Arkansas River Page
• River Resource - use the Links to River Pages where you can choose general or specific river information.
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources and its Ohio's State Scenic Rivers page.
• Old Man River - a Mississippi River site.
• Little Miami Incorporated - a river conservation organization for the Little Miami.
• Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) - look for the links to Quick Facts and Ohio River Information.
• Ohio River - a brief history from OhioValley.com
• Colorado River - an introduction to the river from the Utah History Encyclopedia.
• The New River Valley's Features - a brief description of the area.
• The New River Gorge National River - website from the National Park Service.
• The Yukon River - brief entry from the Kidopedia encyclopedia.
• Info about the Yukon River - a kayaking trip on the Yukon.
• The Riverboat Nenana - class project on a historic Yukon River steamboat.
• Electric Library* - available at the library - fulltext database of 800+ newspapers and magazines, plus reference books like Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia and the 1995 World Almanac and Book of Facts.
• SIRS Researcher (Available only at the library)* - fulltext magazine articles.

Electronic Reference Network

McGraw Hill Science Navigator

There are articles on river, river engineering, and river tides.

Magills Survey of Science

You can find such articles as river bed forms, river flow, and river valleys, as well as topics such as flood plain or groundwater movement. There are no articles on specific rivers. Try a keyword search of "rivername" and "river" to see articles in which your river is mentioned.

SIRS Researcher

Find subject headings for such topics as river basin or river ecology or look under the subject heading rivers for general articles and the list of specific rivers covered. You can also try SIRS Researcher online. (Available only at the library)*.

Facts on File

Use this resource to find brief news articles about your river. Try entering "rivername river" on one line.

Magazine Article Summaries

Search for magazine articles. On the search screen enter "rivername river" on the same line.

Multimedia

Encarta Encyclopedia

Use Find to search for entries on rivers in general or on your specific river.

* this database provided to public libraries by the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN).