Ready Set Research

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ReadySetResearch

• Susan Burgoyne
• Bayview Community School
• Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia

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Students need to

• Think of a topic that they know something about
• Place the title on their folder
• Draw a picture of the event, person etc on the
  folder

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Activating Prior Knowledge

• It is important for students to get in touch
  with what they already know.
• They need to know that there are others who may
  have information that can help them.

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Four Corner Graphic Organizer
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Formulate 4 questions about the topic.
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Activating Knowledge

• Have students circulate around the room asking
  peers for additional information
• When they get additional information have them
  write the information on the strip of paper.
• Be sure to remind them to include the name of the
  student who gave them the answer on the back.

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At this point Students often

• Find that a question they were considering is not
  important and need to discard it DONT let them
  throw it out. Place the sticky note off of the
  list of questions. They may find it was
  important after all.
• Find a new question that they had not thought of.
  Have them add the question to a sticky note.

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Organization of Ideas Before Going to the Library

• Note Making strategies
• Writing in the Content Area by Maria Carty
• 4 Square Log sample in handout
• Note Making Chart sample in handout

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Remind students that if they find music, pictures
or any other piece of information that they will
use for their project, they should collect it or
put in on a disk, memory stick.There is a folder
for this type of information.
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More thinking needed

• Students need to think of four questions that
  they now have about the topic.
• Write each question on a separate sticky note on
  the folder.
• Number each question.

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Lets Do Some Research

• Use strips to collect information, using own
  words.
• Write where the information came from on the back
  of the strip.
• Place strips that are written on in the data
  collection folder.

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Internet Search Lessonwww.ssrsb.ca Search
Techniques for the Internet Savvy
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Search Techniques for the Search Savvy
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What to use?

• Search Engines
• Detailed
• Very complete
• Current
• Harvested by BOTS
• Generally sites do not pay to be on search
  engines
• Google

• Search Directories
• Encyclopedia like
• Organized by topic
• Often sites pay to be listed
• Yahoo

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Represents about 1/3 of web
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Be sure to put the search criteria in the correct
location
URLs go here
Enter key search words here
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Organize the information collected

• On the desks, students organize the strips into
  answers for the questions that they have on their
  sticky notes.
• Number each strip of paper according to the
  question OR staple the order to a sheet of
  loose-leaf.

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Extra strips of information?

• May be logically organized and perhaps a question
  that they did not think of before can be added to
  the sticky note.

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Each question becomes an idea or paragraph.
Students can use graphic organizers to guide
them while they write paragraphs for their
research paper.
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Using the folder, your students will be able to

• Understand that they have knowledge to bring to a
  research paper
• Think of a topic that they have prior knowledge
  about
• Collect data
• Organize data
• Write a research paper or create a presentation
  that has a sense of direction, beginning middle
  and end