Research


 * Research **

**Create a customized search tool**
As educators we are faced with the challenge of teaching students to use the Internet effectively. With so much information available, it's important to bring relevant and reliable resources into the classroom and also to teach our students how to conduct a search. Google offers a cool tool to assist with both tasks.

The [|Goggle Custom Search Tool] allows you to easily build your own search engine customized with content for your grade level or for a particular unit of study. The tool helps you teach students to search for information, but it limits the search to websites you have chosen as appropriate. It can be embed into your own blog, wiki, or site.

Do teach students that the customized search tool only searches websites you have identified, and consider allowing them to build a custom search of their own when teaching them how to evaluate reliable websites.

**See the Wiki page on Evaluating Websites and citing your work too**!
http://resourcesfortoolkit.wikispaces.com/Evaluate+Websites

**Research Process**
1.1 Define the problem
 * Big6 Skills™ || [[image:http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Images/BigSixStepOne.bmp width="20" height="21" align="left"]] [|**Step 1 - Task Definition**]

1.2 Identify the information requirements of the problem || [|**Step 4 - Use of Information**] 4.1 Engage (read, hear, view, touch) the information in the source

4.3 Extract information from a source || 2.1 Determine the range of possible sources
 * [[image:http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Images/BigSixStepTwo.bmp width="20" height="21" align="left"]] [|**Step 2 - Information Seeking Strategies**]

2.2 Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities || [|**Step 5 - Synthesis:** Putting it all together] 5.1 Organize information from multiple sources

5.2 Create a product or performance || 3.1 Locate sources
 * [[image:http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Images/BigSixStepThree.bmp width="20" height="21" align="left"]] [|**Step 3 - Location and Access**]

3.2 Find information within the sources || [|**Step 6 - Evaluation**] 6.1 Judge the product or performance

6.2 Judge the information-solving process ||
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 * Name: **
 * Date: **
 * Grade Level: **
 * Title: **
 * Curriculum area: **
 * Sample: **
 * //Create a link to your sample here. Try to link the words, not the web address. //**


 * Note: **** It is probably easier to complete this out of order. **
 * Task Definition: **
 * Task: **** Define the research task here. Delete what you don't need when you are done. **
 * Include research task and final outcome**.**
 * Planning resources
 * [|Bloom's Digital Taxonomy]
 * **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">NETS S **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - for Students

>> Directions: To **simplify** a complex topic, look at the list of languages on the left side of the screen in Wikipedia - scroll down the list and select **Simple English**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Information Seeking Strategies: **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Task: ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Choose the tools you would like students to use for this project. Delete those that you won't be using. This is just a list. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Google Custom Search
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Bag the Web resources
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Awesome Library
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Kids Click
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Google Safe Search
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Google Wonder Wheel]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Qwiki
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">YouTube
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Other
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Location and Access: **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Task: ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Organize sources for students to easily access online. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Choices: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create links to sources right here in this template.Please remember to use words, not just web addresses.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create a new wiki project page with sources organized and embedded.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Organize and embed sources on your own blog, site or primary web spot
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Organize and embed sources in a Google Presentation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Suggestions welcome.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Use of Information **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Task: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Decide how students will get information out of the source? Provide links and directions if needed. Delete what you don't need.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Note-taking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Concept-mapping software
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inspiration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Online sources
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mind 42
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mindmeister
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">mindomo.com
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">wisemapping
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">bubbleus
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wordle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Drawing or sketching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Note Cards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Online notecards
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Read Write Think
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">NoteStar
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Citations
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">EasyBib
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Word
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Remember Modifications:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wikipedia simple search
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Autosummary in Word Print directions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Text Compactor online version
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Synthesis **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Task ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: Create a sample project **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> **Possible products**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wiki
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Glogster
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Google Presentation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">VoiceThread
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dipity Timeline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Other
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Evaluation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rubric: See Kathy Schrock's picks>