Revitalizing the Research Model to Engage Students

4 Day Institute

May 25, 2005

This staff development aims to immerse the teacher in thinking about restructuring and revitalizing the elementary research project with an emphasis upon student "questioning" and the "research cycle" using research by Jamie McKenzie Ed.D. Working as a team media specialists and classroom teachers will be building a scaffold for student research.units in grades 3, 4, and 5 using The Big 6 strategies.

Training Topics:

  • The Big 6
  • Information Literacy
  • Essential Questions and Research
  • Looking Critically at Electronic Resources
  • Mini-Lessons for Classroom Instruction

Institutes to be held at Orchard Hills School

June 2---(3:45-5:45)

August 23 and 24---(8:30-12:30)

August 30---(8:30-3:00)

November 8---(8:30-3:00)


 

 

The Big Six

Teaching Information Literacy: The Big Six Skills Approach to Information Problem Solving

The Big 6

Big 6 Research Paper Organizer

Introducing the Big6

Information Literacy Standards--The Big6

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Plagiarism

My Drop Box
http://www.mydropbox.com

Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teachers Guide
http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html

Borrowing? Fraud? Plagiarism? an Internet Sampler on Plagiarism
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samplagiarist.html

The Impact of Plagiarism
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/plagexamples.htm

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Proper Citation

Citation Machine
http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

Citation Maker
http://oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited

A Visit to Copyright Bay
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/
These thorny, legal issues are presented in a fun tutorial that lets you navigate Fair Use Harbor, visit Murky Waters, and crash on Infringement Reef. Fair Use Harbor includes information about AV Materials, Multimedia, Single copies, Multiple copies, and Distance Learning. You can take a Shakedown Cruise to test your knowledge.

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

This website offers background material and explanations of copyright law. Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


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Essential Questions

Asking the Essential Questions
http://www.biopoint.com/ibr/askquestion.html

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

Creating Essential Questions
http://www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.html

From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions and Standards-Based Learning
http://www.fno.org/feb01/pl.html

Framing Essential Questions
http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html

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Evaluating Websites

An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation

Activity for Evaluating Websites

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation Information

Quality Information Checklist

Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

Using the Internet for School Reports

Four Nets for Better Searching

Yahooligans Teacher Guide for Evaluating Websites

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Assessment Resources

Rubistar
Create Rubrics for your Project-Based Learning Activities
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

Rubrics for Web Lessons from Bernie Dodge and Nancy Pickett
Articles on the use of rubrics. Links to rubric makers and samples.

Rubrics from Teach-nology
Allows you to type in your criteria and print out a rubric

Project Based Learning Checklists
Make customized checklists in the old format in which you check off from suggestions or new format which has drop down menus and checklist ideas, also in Spanish. Select by subject and grade level to get suggestions for criteria

QuizStar
With this free web-based utility, you can create a custom quiz that students can take online at school or at home.

 

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