Research at Village - Student Expectations
Students in grades 4-6 will:
- Start research with our databases- World Book Online, Grolier Online, Nettrekker, etc. - and/or additional websites provided by the teacher
- Develop and narrow key words for searching
- Use Google only as a last resort, and only with permission and supervision. (Teachers, and parents, are encouraged to search with students - discussing why certain key words are used, skimming the resulting list of websites and discussing why we choose to look at certain cites. Wikipedia is not allowed as a source. We discourage use of any wiki type sites for most projects, along with ask.com and similar sites. We encourage the adult to open possible sites in new tabs, then close the google site page, allowing the student to read and determine if the pre-selected sites meet their research needs.)
- All books, websites, and images are to be properly cited in NoodleTools.
- Notecards will be created for all research notes. Notecards created for information found online will include a direct quotation copied and pasted from the source, as well as paraphrased bullet points in the student's own words. Notecards from printed materials (books, pamphlets, etc.) do not require a direct quotation to be retyped in.
- We encourage (and often require) students to create an outline in NoodleTools. Notecards are then placed in the outline, as appropriate. Before beginning to write, students are taught to print their outline with notecards, selecting only "Paraphrase" to be printed. This allows students to see only their paraphrased bullet points along with their outline. This "printout" can be hard copy on paper or saved for reference as a digital (pdf) file.
- Images must be cited using the "Photo or Image (Born Digital)" citation. Include the Website Title, the URL for the photo, and a Title or description for the picture. Notecards do not need to be created for images.