5th Grade PROBE Search Strategies and Resources

NAME ____________________________________ Date _____________________________

5th Grade Student Knowledge Notebook

Evaluation of Information: Finding RELEVANT Articles

Relevance: The capability of an information retrieval system to select and retrieve information suitable for a user's needs.

                      From relevant articles then select and sort to find articles pertinent to an immediate need or question.

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.

                Notes: Facts, opinions, and theories ______________________________________________

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.

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