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Big6 Workshop Resources CESA #2 STEP 1 Task Definition Jansen’s site on asking good questions http://www.sasaustin.org/library/questioning.php IMSA’s Project Based Learning Introduction http://www2.imsa.edu/programs/pbl/whatis/whatis/slide1.html Inspiration Software http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm PBL Project Organizer http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/cespr/view/ces_res/137 Asking Better Questions http://www.joycevalenza.com/questions.html - Joyce Valenza explains the need for good questions and provides excellent examples.Questioning Toolkit http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html - Questioning strategies from Jamie Mackenzie. A Taskonomy of WebQuest Tasks http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html - 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 WebQuest Portal http://webquest.org/ site for ideas. Topic Triangle http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/loc/restri.html - Good instructions for narrowing/broadening a topic. General-to-specific triangle http://www.squires.fayette.k12.ky.us/library/research/general.htm KWHL Chart http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/KWL.chart.html Jamie McKenzie’s questioning website – http://questioning.org Bernajean Porter:Grappling’s Technology & Learning Spectrum http://www.bjpconsulting.com/products/grappling2002/ Graphic Organizers – http://www.graphic.org/ Task Definintion Helper- http://www3.sympatico.ca/sandra.hughes/sandra.hughes/research/task.html Big6 Assignment Organizer – http://www.sasaustin.org/library/assignmentOrganizer.php
STEP 2 Information Seeking Strategies Primary and Secondary Sources http://www.graphic.org/resources.html Evaluation Rubrics for Websites – http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/online/eval.htm OSLIS Elementary: How to Search the Web http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/elementary/ OSLIS Secondary: How to Search the Web http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php Boolean search tips http://adam.ac.uk/info/boolean.html Rockwell Schrock's Boolean Machine http://www.kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/ Kid's Tools for Searching the Internet http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Internet Search Tools - A Quick Reference Guide http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/conferences/pres/srchtool.html - A one page guide that lists search tools according to their best use. Filamentality http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ Search Engine and Search Strategy Handout http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/SearchStrategies.htm UC-Berkeley’s Invisible Web Directory http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html Nicenet http://www.nicenet.net Quick Topic http://www.quicktopic.com/ Inspiration SoftwareBrainstorming http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/brainstorm.html - A technique and example for using brainstorming with students. Keywords: Starting Points http://library1.utb.edu/starting/default.htm - A public library site with a good strategy for developing keywords for searching. 3M Keyword Method http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html - From the WebQuest site, a method for determining keywords and setting up successful Internet searches. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html Survey Monkey – http://www.surveymonkey.com KidsClick – http://www.kidsclick.org Library of Congress American Memory- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
STEP 3 Location and Access Pathfinders John Newbery Elementary School Information Pathfinders http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/pathfinders/pathfinder.htm - Locally developed pathfinders for K-5. Pioneer Middle School Pathfinders http://pio.wsd.wednet.edu/library/path.htm - Locally developed pathfinders for 6-8. Walter Johnson High School Research Pathfinders http://www3.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/wjhs/mediactr/resproj2.html - A treasure trove of pathfinders for high school students. Who has this much time? Homework Pathfinders http://www.potamusplace.net/pathfinder.shtml - From the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library system. Includes several well-organized pathfinders for school projects. Lakewood Public Library http://www.lkwdpl.org/schools/schlpath.htm - Class Assignment Pathfinders (Lakewood, Ohio) for Elementary, Middle and High School. Online Databases ProQuest http://www.proquestk12.com/educatortools.shtml The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986. Great places for teachers to find WWW sites and resources to support school projects 42Explore http://www.42explore.com/index.htm - This amazing site has preselected Web resources and activities for multiple topics. American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html - from the Library of Congress. If you teach social studies, you need to visit this page. Click on Learning Page for lessons and resources. Librarians' Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org/ KidsClick http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ - Sites selected by librarians. Includes reading levels. Yahooligans http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ - Kid friendly sites from Yahoo for kids. Check out the teacher section. MarcoPolo http://www.marcopolo-education.com/index.aspx - Links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and more. Sites in Spanish - for Kids http://www.eduplace.com/bil/links/index.html - Houghton Mifflin maintains this link library to selected sites in Spanish for kids. Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en 5 W’s of Website Evaluaton, Diane Lauer http://www.dianelauer.com/fivewww/webeval.html Illinois Math and Science Academy Internet Wizard http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools Other Search Engines / Directories http://205.213.162.11/project_write/jsworkshop/newlisbon.html Bernie Dodges Four Nets to better searching http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm also Before you Search http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html Evaluation Rubrics for Websites – http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/online/eval.htm The Quality Information Checklist – http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators -http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
STEP 4 Use of Information Note-taking - Techniques for note-taking can be found at these sites: The Trash-n-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=45 - This is our favorite method for teaching/learning notetaking skills. Notemaking http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html - This site has downloadable graphic organizers plus multiple methods for teaching notemaking. Diamond Thinking – http://www.big6.com/showenewsarticle.php?id=267 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: Graphic Organizers http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html - A great collection of downloadable GO's. Laura Chandler's File Cabinet - Graphic Organizers http://home.att.net/~teaching/graporg.htm - 3 quality GO's to download. Graphic Organizer Index http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html - Examples and suggestions for use of GO's. NCREL's Graphic Organizers http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm - Great examples and explanations of GO's from NCREL. SCORE's Graphic Organizers http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm WriteDesign On-Line - Graphic Organizers http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/ Graphic Organizers http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/6293.html - Download and print several GO's. Inspiration- Software for creating graphic organizers. Download a trial copy. Includes Kidspiration for younger kids. Citing Sources - Sites for creating bibliographies include the following: NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/- A subscription service for generating a bibliography. NoodleTools MLA Starter http://www.noodletools.com/- A free tool for generating a citing for a single source. Landmark Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/ Classroom Connect Community - Connected Teacher http://www.classroom.com/community/connection/howto/citeresources.jhtml Copyright and plagiarism - Plagiarism http://www.plagiarized.com/index.html - An online resource for checking sources. Plagiarism vs. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/plagdoc.html - Summarizing http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/sumparquo.html - Read the explanations from Joyce Valenza's site. Then take the quiz - Is it plagiarism? http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/isitplag.html Copyright for Kids http://www.copyrightkids.org/ Copyright Bay http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/ Trash-N-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-taking, Barbara Jansen http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=45 Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html Stanford University’s Copyright and Fair Use Site http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/index.html Notestar http://altec.org/index.php Hall Davidson http://www.halldavidson.com/ Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers http://i.cmpnet.com/techlearning/pdf/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_chart.pdf Use Word Processing Tables 2 column 3 column
STEP 5 Synthesis Project Product Ideas http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/TL/liu/interdisproj/products.html Products and Assessments - Elementary http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/productselem.html Products and Assessments - Secondary http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/products.html Basic 5 Paragraph Essay Pattern http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/maplewoods/writeplace/organization.html Student work: common phenomena http://www.theaha.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Smith/web/hst101/commonphenomena.html - Secondary students present their history research in graphic organizers. CESA5’s Project Write –Great Publishing Ideas for Writing http://205.213.162.11/project_write/index.html Project Poster- kid created web sites My Brochure Maker – http://www.mybrochuremaker.com Stapless Book – http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=949 STEP 6 Evaluation Discovery School.com - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html/ - Links to many areas of assessment. RubiStar Maker http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - Make your own rubric by selecting different categories from this excellent online tool. Project Checklists http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ - Customize your own checklist for project based learning. Assessment Tools for Elementary http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/assess-elem.html Assessment Tools for Secondary http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/assess_sec.html - Includes rubrics for specific types of projects, such as posters, booklets, web pages. Assessment and Project-Based Learning http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/AssessPBL.html Kathy Schrock's Ready Reference & Copyright Links http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/referenc.html#copyright OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Rubistar Site for making rubrics online http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Teach-nology http://teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ Rubric Builder by Landmark Project http://www.landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder/php3 Alaska Department of Education & Early Development: A collection of Assessment Strategies – http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/mathsci/ms5_2as1.htm
More Big6™ Resources On School Sites What is Information Literacy? http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/infolit.html - An excellent guide to the Big6 Process for secondary students. Research Skills http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Science/Research.html - A guide for a high school Science class. Big6 at Lufkin High School http://www.lufkinisd.org/lhshome/library/big6main.htm This is an awesome site with support for everything to do with a research paper for secondary school staff and students. The Big6 : Information Literacy http://www.wsd1.org/PC_LMS/pf/Big6.htm - A pathfinder to print and non-print resources about Big6. IMC Big6 http://collaboratory.nunet.net/nssd112/oakterrace/imc/big6.html - Looking for the Big6 in Spanish? You'll find that and much more at this site. Research Buddy http://www.squires.fayette.k12.ky.us/library/research/research.htm - This site takes elementary students through every step of the Big6 and provides valuable support materials. The Super3 http://academic.wsc.edu/redl/classes/tami/super3.html _- The Big6 for very young children. Introducing the Super3 http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=109 - The Super 3 discussed by Mike Eisenberg. Big6™ Skills http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/lmc_big6.htm Guide at John Newbery Elementary School Library Technology and the Big6 Applying Big6 Skills™, Information Literacy Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research by Janet Murray http://janetsinfo.com/big6info.htm Projects and Organizers CyberBee: In the Hollow of a Tree http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/sep01/cybe0109.htm Lowell School - Project Planner http://wwwlow.bham.wednet.edu/project.htm American History Organizer http://schools.4j.lane.edu/churchill/library/classes/amstdsbig6.html
Big6™ Official Website St. Andrew’s Library Page Site Map http://www.sasaustin.org/library/teacherResources.php http://www.sasaustin.org/library/assignmentOrganizer.php http://www.sasaustin.org/library/paperOrganizerUS.php
Project Big6™ Site (CESA 5) http://205.213.162.11/Project_big6/index.html
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