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5th Grade Student Knowledge Notebook                                    

Evaluation of Information: Finding CURRENT Articles

Current:  Belonging to the present time.  Up-to-date.

QUESTION SEARCH PRODUCE EVALUATE REFLECT
What do I know?  Where will I look? What will I make? How am I doing? What am I learning?
What do I want to know? What strategies will I use? How will I make it? How did I do? What did I learn

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Search: Where will I look? SIRS DISCOVERER, Kids World Almanac, Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus

Resources I will  use:

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What search strategies will I use? Think SMLKA  and  THINK  PROBE

Search: Keywords I will use:   

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PRODUCE   1. Select & Sort   2. Cite Sources    3.  Take Notes     4.  Rough draft      5.  Final Product 

2.       Citing Sources: Titles of relevant articles:                                   Date of article:

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3.    Taking notes: Read the articles and take notes about what they say.

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4.    Synthesize:  Drawing Conclusions: After reading and taking notes, what conclusions can you draw about whether dinosaurs are birds or reptiles or something else altogether?  Use the information from your articles in your writing to support.  Since this is a personal conclusion be sure to include what you think. (No final product required.)

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Evaluating and Reflecting

What resources were helpful? _______________________________________________________

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What were the best key words?______________________________________________________

  EVALUATION : See Rubric Below

How did I do: _______________________________________________________________________

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REFLECTION

The next time I have an assignment like this I will:

(What will you do differently? What will you do the same way?)

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Evaluation Rubric 0

1

2

3

4

Cited Sites

 No cites

Listed less than 8 sources

Listed less than 8 sources with dates

Listed 8 sites

Listed 8 sites with dates

Completed Notes

 No notes 1-2 3-4 Notes by category More than 1 note per category

Listed keywords used and ways to improve

 Blank

Blank

 One keyword

No improvement

 2 or more keywords

or

1 way to improve

 2 or more keywords

and

1 way to improve

  

Drew Conclusions

 No conclusions No conclusions Conclusions not supported by articles Conclusions supported by articles no personal statements Personal conclusion with reasons and supporting detail from articles

Wrote paragraph

 List, not paragraph No topic sentence or concluding sentence Topic sentence, or concluding sentence Topic & concluding sentences

some detail

 Topic & concluding sentences strong supporting detail.