Research

Taking Notes

• Fact Fragment Frenzy from Read*Write*Think
• One Note – note taking & copy/paste for reference
•  Word – bibliography

  • Open Microsoft Office OneNote

  • Default Notebook --Getting Started with OneNote pages/guide    

  • Use the Reference tab options in Word to manage your resources to create citations, footnotes/endnotes, and bibliographies. Information and training 

• Interview an expert

  • See this Community Helpers project where interviews were conducted via video conference

Product Ideas

• Tammy Worcester Quick & Easy ideas
  • reveal slide show with clues
  • animal in the zoo

• information and training in katynet's Knowledge Base
• sample research outline "glog"
• sample for 4th grade Texas people, animals, and places research

Google Earth

• Doing research on a place.  Have students create a Google tour.  click here for an example on Texas

Challenge another class

• See this example for a video conference Landmark Challenge 

Resources

• library databases
  • Enchanted Learning
  • Gale Group > Biography Resource Center
  • Gale Group >Kid InfoBits
  • State Funded Databases > Searchasaurus

• NonFiction Bookshelf
• ask for help from your librarian or our Lang. Arts Technology IS's

Searching

• Google – wonder wheel (Click More Options)

Diigo  – teacher directed or students collecting

• information and training in katynet's Knowledge Base

Click here for postcard reminder of these tools