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Handout
Other

How to Compile a Bibliography

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
This site provides basic guidelines and examples for how to compile a bibliography. Grade levels listed 1st through 6th.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing a Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides many links to information on writing research papers.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Stand Tall: Using Evidence to Support Your Answers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This learning module has a series of screencast videos and practice exercises designed to teach students how to support their answers with details from the text.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shoals Area Landmarks and Sites of Interest

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
In this lesson students choose a local landmark or site located in the Shoals area and research that site's contribution to history. Students demonstrate their knowledge of a specific Shoals area landmark or site by creating various...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, learners will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Power Up What Works: Conducting Research

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This resource describes the first phase of a Grade 6 teacher's instructional activity where young scholars develop a plan for working on a research project and then collect information. Each student has chosen a topic relating to how the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pgs for Class Collection

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
A four-session lesson plan that leads to a class collection of resources is a solid introduction to both searching skills and evaluation. Could be used with any number of subject areas.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Story Add Ons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows young scholars to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.
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Handout
Other

How to Study: Ten Steps to a Good Research Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This webpage describes how to use index cards for writing a term paper or research paper, as well as other clear steps to follow to improve research writing.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Paraphrase Craze: A Lesson in Expository Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on how to paraphrase using an excerpt from Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." It defines paraphrase and plagiarism, presents examples, and explains what is incorrect about them. It is interactive asking for...
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Handout
Cyberbee

Cyber Bee: Ready Reference

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site is a tool to help students hone their reference skills.
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EL Education

El Education: Blueprints With Four Drafts

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
These four drafts of architectural blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from Shutesbury Elementary School, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.
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EL Education

El Education: Meet Local Scientists

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Students learn about local scientists through research, interviews, and brief internships. Then students create pages for a class book containing digital photographs and information about the scientist and his/her field of study.
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EL Education

El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
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EL Education

El Education: Testing the Waters

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students tested water at several sites in a local creek and write a scientific paper showing their testing and results. Scientific papers include an abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion including recommendations...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to images, texts, videos, slides, and a quiz on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Research Websites for Kids

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Eight links to kid-friendly websites for gathering research.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites, an image, and a video about using questioning skills to research and write about one's family history.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Investigating Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, slides, and a quiz about finding the main idea.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Reading to Gather Information

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an introduction for elementary students learning to pull facts from sources.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Research Questions

For Teachers 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores the steps of the research process - selecting an appropriate research topic, and delving more into the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Library Online

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to help teach students about using the Winnebago online catalog system for finding research materials. It also explains the needed information for a proper bibliography.