Scavenger Hunt

Trying to find these things!

1) An op-ed on a labor dispute involving public school teachers from before 1970

•  STEP ONE: went to library.gmu.edu
• STEP TWO: went to JSTOR database
• STEP THREE: searched ((Labor dispute) AND (public school teachers)) AND (year:[1950 TO 1970])
• FOUND :  link HERE

2) The first documented use of solar power in the United States

• STEP ONE: went to library.gmu.edu
• STEP TWO: searched for a science database
• STEP THREE: could not find anything on solar energy so went to JSTOR
• FOUND: link HERE      (NOT SURE IF IT IS CORRECT! THIS WAS REALLY HARD!)

3) The best resource for the history of California ballot initiatives, including voting data

• STEP ONE: went to library.gmu.edu
• STEP TWO: search polls and data
• STEP THREE: chose Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
• FOUND: California voting trends

this assignment was surprisingly harder than I thought…