A Google a Day challenges users to put their searching skills to the test by asking them to answer a question using Google search. With Google’s search education lesson plans you can take this game even further and begin teaching search literacy in your classroom.
CAN YOU FIND THE ANSWER?
Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project.
Use this to help you produce a bibliography to accompany your assignments.
This is a safe way to have your children and students search the Internet!
*Safe Search
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Middle Years Inquiry Guidebook.
A resource guide for beginning the inquiry process with your students. Links to many resources and mini-lesson ideas.
Resources included:
- Brainstorming & forming research questions
- Skimming & Scanning
- Online Research Skills
- Note taking & paraphrasing
- Embedding quotations
- In text citations & works cited
This research skills booklet was compiled by The Grade 7 PLC at Sun West.
Topics include: clarifying, searching, summarizing, citing sources, evaluating sites.
The following is a resource for teaching research skills to grades 1 and 2 students. This works with the 21st century skills SECRET framework, but would also easily work with the 7Cs. It looks at teaching them:
How to ask a question
How to search for information
How to evaluate resources
How to take notes
How to share your learning
Each small group of students researches one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush, and teaches what they have learned to the rest of the class.
This is a series of toolkits for older students.
The toolkits allow students to explore a topic, watch videos on the content, and apply what they learn.
Topics include:
Interacting with profs, library skills, managing your time, preparing for exams, presentation skills, reading textbooks, taking notes, thinking critically, working in groups, and writing.
This continuum breaks down the necessary research skills for kindergarten to Grade 8 in Sun West. It includes when to introduce the skill as well as the transfer of responsibility (I do, we do, you do) level expected at each grade.