Search: 45 minutes, 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| Adelina's Whales and The Big 6 research process | Students will record relevant ("treasure")information from the PBS video: Saving the Ocean: Destination Baja, on their video note-taking template (Step 4- Use of Information). They will then synthesize their notes from the video and the website to answer the Essential Question: How is the Mayoral family helping to preserve the gray whales’ habitat at San Laguna Ignacio? (Step 5- Synthesis)on the Essential Question template. | 4 | |
| Dr. Seuss and Read Across America | The essential question, What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement in America? This lesson is designed to teach students to analyze the life and works of Dr. Seuss and to infer why he was important to the Read Across America movement. Students will use note taking skills to write their paragraph from reliable, teacher selected sources. | 5, 6 | |
| Creepy, Crawly Insects - Where Can I Find Out More? | First and second grade students, currently studying insects in Science, will visit the library to research various insects, take notes on important information, create a presentation, and share findings with peers. Students design presentations to address the following essential questions: What makes this creature an insect? What do I want to tell other students about this insect? | 1, 2 | |
| Idea-Noun Definition: Source Searching | This lesson is designed to teach students the location and how to access their sources. This lesson falls under step three in the Big6 Research Process. Students will review the various sources available to them and the specifics for access and searching within those sources. Students will find three sources related to their research task (selected idea-noun) and cite them correctly. Essential Question: How does this source change/support/influence your definition of _____ (student's idea-noun focus)? | 11, 12 | |
| Zoo Animal Experts | Essential Question(s): Where can I learn more about zoo animals? How can I get information beyond just information text? The essential element of this project was 1.) students would learn about an animal they will find at the zoo and 2.) students would learn how to get information from photographs and beginning non-fiction text. | K | |
| Zoo Animals | Students address the following essential questions in this unit: What are reptiles? What are mammals? What are birds? How are these animals alike? How are they different? | K | |
| Nouns and Verbs in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Following a class discussion of nouns and verbs in the story, students will go to a computer to locate and print photos to illustrate one noun and one verb of their choice. Essential questions: What is the function of a noun? What is the function of a verb? How can pictures be found with a computer? | 3 |