Big6+Research+Page+(For+Teachers)

=Big6 Research Model= ===Applying Big6™ Skills, AASL Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research===

CRLS Research Guide
===Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) Skills Curriculum Based on the Big6 Skills Approach to Information Problem-Solving===

Online Resources to Support Big6 Information Skills
===[|Big6™ Kids' Site]  - Part of the Big6™ Home Page, these pages lead kids through the 6 step information process. Specific sections for grades K-2, 3-6, and 7-12 are provided. === ||
 * **OVERVIEW of BIG6™ ** ||
 * ===[|Big6™ Home Page]  - Visit the Official Big6™ Home Page to get an overview of the process from its co-developer, Dr. Mike Eisenberg. You'll want to visit this site often to explore the wide range of resources for teaching and learning with the Big6™ around the world. ===

> **2. Information-Seeking Strategies ** > **2.1 Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm) ** > **2.2 Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources) ** > [|Brainstorming]  - A technique and example for using brainstorming with students. > [|Research Building Blocks: Hints About Print] > [|Research Building Blocks: Selecting Electronic Resources] ||
 * **1. Task Definition **
 * 1.1 Define the information problem **
 * 1.2 Identify information needed to complete the task (to solve the information problem) ** ||
 * * [|Question Brainstormer] - Joyce Valenza provides a framework for developing essential questions.
 * [|Questioning Toolkit] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Questioning strategies from Jamie Mackenzie.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Taskonomy of WebQuest Tasks] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - This site does a great job of explaining the different types of tasks that can be explored. It's useful for getting ideas for research projects, even if you're not developing a WebQuest. Also look at the Top, Middling, and New matrices at the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|WebQuest Portal] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">site for ideas.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Topic Triangle] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Good instructions for narrowing/broadening a topic.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|General-to-specific triangle]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|KWHL Chart] ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Keywords: Starting Points] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A public library site with a good strategy for developing keywords for searching.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|3M Keyword Method] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - From the WebQuest site, a method for determining keywords and setting up successful Internet searches.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Primary and Secondary Sources]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Web page Evaluation] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - An excellent tool for determining the value of a web page. Includes a downloadable format.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|OSLIS Elementary: How to Search the Web]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|OSLIS Secondary: How to Search the Web]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Boolean search tips]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Rockwell Schrock's Boolean Machine]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Kid's Tools for Searching the Internet]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs]
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Read•Write•Think **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> lesson plans for selecting best resources (grades 3-5).
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3. Location and Access **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.1 Locate sources (intellectually and physically) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.2 Find information within sources ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pathfinders **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|John Newbery Elementary School Information Pathfinders] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Locally developed pathfinders for K-5.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Pioneer Middle School Pathfinders] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Locally developed pathfinders for 6-8.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Walter Johnson High School Research Pathfinders] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A treasure trove of pathfinders for high school students.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Homework Pathfinders] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - From the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library system. Includes several well-organized pathfinders for school projects.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Lakewood Public Library] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Class Assignment Pathfinders (Lakewood, Ohio) for Elementary, Middle and High School.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Online Databases **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|UMI Proquest] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|eLibrary Elementary]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|eLibrary K-12]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Great places for teachers to find WWW sites and resources to support school projects **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|42Explore] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - This amazing site has preselected Web resources and activities for multiple topics.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|American Memory Collection] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - from the Library of Congress. If you teach social studies, you need to visit this page. Click on Learning Page for lessons and resources.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Librarians' Index to the Internet]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|KidsClick] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Sites selected by librarians. Includes reading levels.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Yahooligans] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Kid friendly sites from Yahoo for kids. Check out the teacher section.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Thinkfinity] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and more. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">4. Use of Information **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view) the information within a source **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">4.2 Extract relevant information from a source ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Note-taking - Techniques for note-taking can be found at these sites: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Trash-n-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - This is our favorite method for teaching/learning notetaking skills.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Notemaking] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - This site has downloadable graphic organizers plus multiple methods for teaching notemaking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Graphic Organizers provide a way to organize information for note-taking, brainstorming, presentation and more. Several excellent graphic organizers can be found at these sites: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Graphic Organizers] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A great collection of downloadable GO's.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Laura Chandler's File Cabinet - Graphic Organizers] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - 3 quality GO's to download.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Graphic Organizer Index] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Examples and suggestions for use of GO's.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|NCREL's Graphic Organizers] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Great examples and explanations of GO's from NCREL.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|SCORE's Graphic Organizers]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|WriteDesign On-Line - Graphic Organizers]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Graphic Organizers] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Download and print several GO's.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Graphic Organizer graphic organizers concept...]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Inspiration] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Software for creating graphic organizers. Download a trial copy. Includes Kidspiration for younger kids.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Citing Sources - Sites for creating bibliographies include the following: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|NoodleTools] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A subscription service for generating a bibliography.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Landmark Citation Machine]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Classroom Connect Community - Connected Teacher]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Copyright and plagiarism - **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Copyright & Multimedia Productions]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Plagiarism] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - An online resource for checking sources.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Read the explanations from Joyce Valenza's site.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Copyright for Kids] ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">5. Synthesis **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">5.1 Organize information from different sources **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">5.2 Present the information ** ||
 * * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Project Product Ideas]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Products and Assessments] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Elementary
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Products and Assessments] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Secondary
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Graphic Organizers] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - GO's can serve as the final product as evidenced by the student work presented at this site. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">6. Evaluation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">6.1 Judge the product (effectiveness) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">6.2 Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency) ** ||
 * * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Discovery School.com - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Links to many areas of assessment.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|RubiStar Maker] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Make your own rubric by selecting different categories from this excellent online tool.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Project Checklists] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Customize your own checklist for project based learning.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Assessment Tools for Elementary]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Assessment and Project-Based Learning] || **<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">BIG6™ RESOURCES to DOWNLOAD ** ||


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Consider putting your project online for students to access from school or home. The following sites provide ideas and Web page templates: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|CyberBee: In the Hollow of a Tree]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|American History Organizer] ||


 * * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Applying Big6 Skills™, Information Literacy Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> by Janet Murray
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Big6 Web Guide] ||


 * * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|What is Information Literacy?] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- An excellent guide to the Big6 Process for secondary students.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Research Skills] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A guide for a high school Science class.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Big Six at Lufkin High School -] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This is an awesome site with support for everything to do with a research paper for secondary school staff and students.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Big6 : Information Literacy] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - A pathfinder to print and non-print resources about Big6.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|IMC Big6] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - Looking for the Big6 in Spanish? You'll find that and much more at this site.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Research Buddy] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - This site takes elementary students through every step of the Big6 and provides valuable support materials.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The Super3] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> _- The Big6 for very young children.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Introducing the Super3] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - The Super 3 discussed by Mike Eisenberg.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Big6™ Skills] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Guide at John Newbery Elementary School Library ||