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General Tips for
Teachers
- Contact your building
Library Media Specialist for help locating building resources,
scheduling lab time, and any other project assistance you feel you
need.
- Gather a cart of books
and periodicals that will be used in research.
- Check all links to
internal documents and external websites before beginning the project.
If you find that any link does not work, notify project authors by
clicking on the link at the bottom of the website.
- Create a checklist to
track student progress and completion of project elements. See
example below:
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Team Names
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Note Sheet
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Decision Sheet
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Process Rubric
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Team 1
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Technology Tips
Skills:
Students will need modeling, examples, and support to accomplish the
gathering of information. They will need to know how to:
- use the task bar at the
bottom of the screen
- minimizing screens
- navigating within a website
- scrolling down
- copy and paste phrases
and keywords (establish your expectations)
Saving Work: Students may be asked to save their work on the Note
Sheet or other project templates. Work with your Library Media Specialist
to formulate a plan for saving student documents before you begin. You may
need to create a folder on either drive T: or drive P: where teams can save
and access their files throughout the project. Demonstrate for students.
Teamwork
Assign between 2-3 members to each team. Establish guidelines for teamwork
through discussion of the following:
- Decide what jobs need to
be done. (finding web sites, reading aloud from resources, typing and
saving documents)
- Decide how to share jobs
(taking turns, how long does a turn last?, does everyone have a
job?)
- What skills are needed to
be successful? (good listener, patience, support others, how to help
without doing someone else’s job)
- How does a team come to
agreement? Must everyone agree?
- Who the team consult if
they are having problems working together or finding information?
Assessment
There will be
multiple chances to assess student work throughout this project. You
will find rubrics for Process, Presentation, Criteria, Research, Teamwork,
Persuasiveness, and Analysis that have been developed and used by teachers
in the Bellingham School District.
Rubrics help make
your expectations clear to students. They help the teacher assess a
variety of qualities and behaviors by clearly defining or describing the
levels of skill from high to low.
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Process Rubric
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Research
Rubric
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Analysis
Rubric
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Presentation
Rubric
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Teamwork
Rubric
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3rd Grade
Teamwork Rubric
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Criteria
Rubric
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Persuasiveness
Rubric
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3rd Grade
Research Rubric
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3rd Grade
Presentation Rubric
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Reading Strategies
Include the
following reading strategies as a part of the lessons:
- How to scan and look for
key words
- How to determine
importance of information
- How to determine which
category the information fits in
- Define necessary
vocabulary words
- Attend to features of
non-fiction text (headings, sub headings, table of contents,
bibliography, index, glossary) and computer software
- Analyzing, interpreting,
synthesizing information and ideas
For more detail see
EALR’s in Learnings section.
Project Schedule
Map out your
project on a calendar or table. See example below.
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Day 1
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- Introduce the task
and give students an overview of the web site.
- Discuss Rubric and
expectations
- Discuss Steps in the
Research Cycle
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Day 2
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