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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Formulate a Career Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will engage students in career research. Each student will use the I-Search process and then write a 3-5 paper about a career of interest.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Choosing a Research Question

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Nine slides discussing how to choose an effective question for a research project.
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Handout
University of California

Ucla: How to Narrow or Broaden Your Topic?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do you narrow or broaden your research topic? Use this informative educational website to find out how to accomplish this goal.
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Lesson Plan
Education Development Center

Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
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Handout
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Brainstorming Research Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet for using brainstorming techniques for writing research papers. It also gives great examples of factual and interpretive questions. It also provides links to very helpful tip sheets with examples and a worksheet...
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Activity
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Selecting a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good resource which explains and outlines a student's choices when confronted with choosing a research topic. Includes links to an overview, focusing your topic, and more.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.
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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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Activity
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: In the Mirror of Genre

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A teacher's research project page that explores his students' journal responses to various literary works. Basic and limited entries.
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Website
Other

Reading Comprehension: Question Answer Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you need help working with your students on questioning a text or if you are working on higher-level questioning skills, this is a simple and helpful site. Printable resources available from site.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Lights, Camera, Action! Documentary Research Project

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, and videos to use while completing a documentary research project.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Evaluating Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, slides, and a quiz to use while learning how to evaluate research sources.
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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: Primary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module with twenty-three links to videos, texts, images, websites, texts, and a quiz about primary 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: Research Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart poses a series of questions to students asking them to select the appropriate resource source given the information in the questions.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Leads in an Essay

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an informational flip chart with examples of different types of leads that will make student writing more attention-grabbing.
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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.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Activity
Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: How to Find and Develop a Viable Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers a few suggestions to get you started with the research process.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Match

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support to their definitions. The game can be played multiple times to use all 20 words.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Creating a Works Cited

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The intended learning outcomes are to identify the basic elements of a citation, and to understand that the elements of a citation vary with the format of the source cited (e.g. book v. magazine article v. online resource), and to know...