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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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