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Ready…
Set…
Research…
Susan Burgoyne
Bayview Community School
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Students need to:
• Think of a topic that
they know something
about
• Place the title on their
folder
• Draw a picture of the
event, person etc on
the folder
Activating Prior Knowledge
• It is important for
students to get in touch
with what they already
know.
• They need to know that
there are others who may
have information that can
help them.
Four Corner
Graphic Organizer
Formulate
4 questions
about the topic.
Activating Knowledge
• Have students circulate around
the room asking peers for
additional information
• When they get additional
information have them write the
information on the strip of
paper.
• Be sure to remind them to
include the name of the student
who gave them the answer on
the back.
At this point Students often
• Find that a question they were
considering is not important and need
to discard it – DON’T let them throw it
out. Place the sticky note off of the list
of questions. They may find it was
important after all.
• Find a new question that they had not
thought of. Have them add the
question to a sticky note.
Organization of Ideas
Before Going to the Library
• Note Making strategies
• Writing in the Content Area by Maria
Carty
• 4 Square Log – sample in handout
• Note Making Chart – sample in
handout
Remind students that if they find
music, pictures or any other piece
of information that they will use for
their project, they should collect it
or put in on a disk, memory stick.
There is a folder for this type of
information.
More thinking needed
• Students need to think of four
questions that they now have about
the topic.
• Write each question on a separate
sticky note on the folder.
• Number each question.
Let’s Do Some Research
• Use strips to collect information, using
own words.
• Write where the information came from
on the back of the strip.
• Place strips that are written on in the
data collection folder.
Internet Search Lesson
www.ssrsb.ca
Search Techniques for the
Internet Savvy
Search Techniques
for the Search Savvy
What to use?
• Search Engines
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Detailed
Very complete
Current
Harvested by BOTS
Generally sites do
not pay to be on
search engines
– Google
• Search Directories
– Encyclopedia like
– Organized by topic
– Often sites pay to
be listed
– Yahoo
Be sure to put the search
criteria in the correct location
Enter key search
words here
Organize the information
collected
• On the desks, students organize the
strips into answers for the questions
that they have on their sticky notes.
• Number each strip of paper according
to the question OR staple the order to
a sheet of loose-leaf.
Extra strips of information?
• May be logically organized and
perhaps a question that they did not
think of before can be added to the
sticky note.
Each question becomes an idea or
paragraph.
Students can use graphic
organizers to guide them while they
write paragraphs for their research
paper.
Using the folder, your students
will be able to:
• Understand that they have knowledge to bring to a
research paper
• Think of a topic that they have prior knowledge
about
• Collect data
• Organize data
• Write a research paper or create a presentation that
has a sense of direction, beginning middle and end