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Activity
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Listing Key Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tip sheet offers questions and examples of how to develop key words to use in your research.
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Activity
Other

Bare Bones Lesson 6: Creating a Search Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
One of the most overlooked steps in research is preparing a strategy before beginning a search. This mini-lesson will help you construct time-saving searches.
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Lesson Plan
Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
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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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Professional Doc
Other

School Library Services: For Teachers: Research Assignments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This simple page does a good job of articulating why research is an important process to teach to students, and it also provides a number of resources for teachers planning to do this.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Questions: A Focus for Planning, Researching, and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...
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Activity
Free Management Library

Free Management Library: Basic Business Research Methods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive resource that details research methods and interview designs along with information on how to conduct a focus group.
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Article
Scholastic

Scholastic: Building Research Skills, Grades 4 8

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Students in Grades 4 through 8 will benefit from these research skills activities. This resource provides several learning activities and tips. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects
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Activity
Harold D. Underdown

Multiple Submissions in Publishing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A resourceful look at the concept of "multiple submissions" while attempting to publish your written work. Includes definitions, explanations and advice.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Designing From Scratch

For Students 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about using a design process to solve problems while building new buildings. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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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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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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 lesson 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 economic...
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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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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: 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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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: 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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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.