Rap n' Roll

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Technology
• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 7th-8th Grade

Description:

This lesson is an introduction to a rap that can help students memorize the Big6TM steps and help students to understand what the steps are and how to use them to do research. The lesson is to be used in conjunction with the buILder, "Vroom! Vroom! Find Your Ride at the Library."

Goals & Objectives:

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Materials:

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Procedures:

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Assessment:

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Standards:

Information Skills and Subskills (K-16)

Definition

• Identifies requirements of research task
• Determines amount/type of information needed to complete research task

Selection

• Narrows topic to be explored
• Specifies subtopics or related keywords

Planning

• Formulates a search strategy
• Identifies potential information sources
• Creates a general framework for organizing information found

Exploration

• Uses indexes and search engines
• Locates and accesses information resources
• Explores range of information resources
• Rethinks research topic

Collection

• Selects most appropriate information sources
• Locates relevant information within selected sources
• Identifies and extracts relevant information from selected sources
• Recognizes when sufficient information has been obtained

Organization

• Filters out irrelevant information
• Summarizes/synthesizes/classifies final information
• Organizes final information for presentation

Presentation

• Assembles organized information for presentation
• Reviews presentation for grammatical, spelling, and other errors
• Cites sources appropriately
• Presents results

Evaluation

• Evaluates end product
• Assesses the efficiency of the research process
• Determines ways to improve future research process and results
• Determines future usefulness/applicability of research process