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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Research Tips & Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers some specifically targeted videos and tip sheets to help you develop several vital research skills. You may need to copy and paste the links provided in order to access the videos. W.11-12.7 Research
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Kathleen Morris: Teach Students How to Research Online in 5 Steps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Some great tips strategies for helping your students learn information literacy and online research skills.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: From Jungle to Lab: The Study of Life's Complexity

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibit on what field biologists do. Hear from scientists who have worked in Belize about the reasons that they chose their career paths, the ideas that drive them in their research, the investigative tools they use, and about the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:technology and the World Around Us: Technology and Education

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the benefits of technology in education including assisting students with their writing and research skills, reading comprehension and providing them with numerous resources on the Internet for analyzing works of...
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Education.com

Education.com: W.4.7 Worksheets: Conduct Short Research Projects

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 6 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation...
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Power Up What Works: Conducting Research

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This resource describes the first phase of a Grade 6 teacher's lesson where students develop a plan for working on a research project and then collect information. Each student has chosen a topic relating to how the economic systems of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Developing a Research Plan and Timeline (English Iii Research)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will to learn how to narrow their research topic and create a research plan and timeline. W.9-10.7 Research
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary (English Iii Research)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn revision strategies you can use to polish your research paper's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Exploring a Research Topic and Identifying Relevant Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students learn how to plan their research, find relevant primary and secondary sources, and use those sources in your research papers. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Take Research Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:implementing Effective Literacy Practices Ell

For Teachers K - 1st
The training module, Implementing Effective Literacy Practices for Instructing English Language Learners Within the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework, provides facilitators with materials to conduct a half-day workshop that can be...
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content

For Teachers K - 1st
The purpose of the Progress Monitoring: Study Group Content module is to provide participants with an introduction to procedures for progress monitoring using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). The module outlines the steps required to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organizing Major Points and Supporting Information in an Outline

For Students 10th - 12th
Organize your major points and supporting information into an outline.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Secondary Literacy: Life Changing Results

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2007 brief provides an orientation to the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) model a replicable district-level model of instruction to meet the differentiated needs of struggling adolescents. CLC is a five-level model that is aligned...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Selecting a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good resource which explains and outlines a student's choices when confronted with choosing a research topic. Includes links to an overview, focusing your topic, and more.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Alone: Research for Survival

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This role-playing instructional activity enhances learners' creativity and develops critical thinking skills. Small groups of students conduct Internet research on the skills necessary to survive when marooned on a Pacific island. Groups...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Advice on Research and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is dedicated to computer scientists or students who are studying computer science to guide their research, writing, and presentation skills.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Common Pitfalls of Primary Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about the common mistakes made when reporting primary research findings.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Ethical Considerations in Primary Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about the ethical considerations necessary when reporting primary research findings.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Researching Dolphins as Endangered Mammals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students work in groups of 3-4 to use the Internet for research. Students create reports and slideshow presentations (optional) defining dolphins as mammals and as an endangered species. Students will...
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Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the members of...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...

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