Description

Get your students ready to research with these paperless graphic organizers and templates! Use with Google slides and Google Classroom. This activity provides you with the tools you need to teach students the research process. And it can be used with any research topic.

What is included:

• Slide 1: My Research Topic (students write possible questions they have about the topic)
• Slide 2: Think About Your Topic (students will write what they already know about their topic and what they want to know)
• Slides 3 and 4: Plan of Attack (students will create a research plan including sources they can use to find their information, formulating their research questions and doing a quick scan of the sources to see how useful they may be).
• Slide 5: Get to the Point (2 different graphic organizers for students to take notes on their topic. Includes a spot to summarize the main idea of the information)
• Slide 6: What’s the Big Idea? (a way for students to focus their research by thinking about the big picture and the essential ideas related to their topic. Can be used to think about keywords they can use in their research as well)
• Slides 7 and 8: Note-taking pages (2 different pages for students to take notes)
• Slide 9: Inquiry Chart (students can use this tool to gather information from several sources and to generate meaningful inquiry questions)
• Slide 10: Research Project Overview (explains to students how they will use the graphic organizers to gather information about a topic)
• Slide 11: Quick tips on using the explore tool to find images for their project
• Slide 12: Quick tips on how to insert a citation from online encyclopedias and databases
• Slides 13-17: Research Project Templates (five different pages that students can use to present their research. Includes two slides with a spot for students to insert a picture
• Slides 18-21: Bibliography (two fill-in pages for students to record their sources. This is based on the MLA style but does not follow their exact format)

This is also available in a print version.

Advantages of using digital resources

Paperless. No need to print and laminate the task cards

• Engages students
• Helps build 21st-century learners
• Can use with Chromebooks, laptops, computers, tablets, iPads or other mobile devices

Terms of Use

© Copyright Staying Cool in the Library. All rights reserved by the author. This product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Copying for more than one teacher prohibited. Additional licenses are available at a discount. For librarians: you may use this product with all of your classes and students.