We were approved for an Information Literacy and Technology Course in the
9th grade rotation for next year. Research projects have been dropping like
flies around here so we are excited to be able to teach these skills to
every freshman. It is a quarterly course, however, we are also switching to
block scheduling next year. Now a 45 day class is twice as long in school
but half as long out of school. We had hoped to do a short paper but a 20
day class doesn't allow much time for that and all the instruction we want
to cover about the research process, internet safety, copyright/plagiarism,
etc.
Our theme is true crime/court cases. Each kid will have a famous historical
case to research. We are kicking around the idea of a one page
paper/newspaper article type of project at the end. We want to focus more on
the process rather than the product and were thinking of doing a research
journal throughout the course. Has anyone ever done research journals? We
would probably give them worksheets or writing prompts. Any advice?
--
Stephanie Sweeney
Librarian
Eastern Lancaster County School District
Garden Spot School
669 E. Main Street
PO Box 609
New Holland, PA 17557-0609
stephanie_sweeney@elanco.org
Phone: 717-354-1543
Fax: 717-354-1534
http://www.elanco.org/schools/gs/hs/lmc/
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