Teacher+Resources

|| **Online Resources to Support** **BIG6™ INFORMATION SKILLS** || **OVERVIEW of BIG6™** ||

**RESOURCES for EACH BIG6™ STEP** || **1. Task Definition****1.1 Define the information problem****1.2 Identify information needed to complete the task (to solve the information problem)** || **2. Information-Seeking Strategies****2.1 Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm)****2.2 Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources)** || > [|Research Building Blocks: Hints About Print] > [|Research Building Blocks: Selecting Electronic Resources] || **3. Location and Access****3.1 Locate sources (intellectually and physically)****3.2 Find information within sources** || **Pathfinders** **Online Databases** **Great places for teachers to find WWW sites and resources to support school projects** **4. Use of Information****4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view) the information within a source****4.2 Extract relevant information from a source** || **Note-taking - Techniques for note-taking can be found at these sites:** **Graphic Organizers provide a way to organize information for note-taking, brainstorming, presentation and more. Several excellent graphic organizers can be found at these sites:** **Citing Sources - Sites for creating bibliographies include the following:** **Copyright and plagiarism -** * [|Copyright & Multimedia Productions] **5. Synthesis****5.1 Organize information from different sources****5.2 Present the information** || **6. Evaluation****6.1 Judge the product (effectiveness)****6.2 Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency)** ||
 * * [|Question Brainstormer] - Joyce Valenza provides a framework for developing essential questions.
 * [|Questioning Toolkit] - Questioning strategies from Jamie Mackenzie.
 * [|A Taskonomy of WebQuest Tasks] - This site does a great job of explaining the different types of tasks that can be explored. It's useful for getting ideas for research projects, even if you're not developing a WebQuest. Also look at the Top, Middling, and New matrices at the [|WebQuest Portal] site for ideas.
 * [|Topic Triangle] - Good instructions for narrowing/broadening a topic.
 * [|General-to-specific triangle]
 * [|KWHL Chart] ||
 * * [|Brainstorming] - A technique and example for using brainstorming with students.
 * [|Keywords: Starting Points] - A public library site with a good strategy for developing keywords for searching.
 * [|3M Keyword Method] - From the WebQuest site, a method for determining keywords and setting up successful Internet searches.
 * [|Primary and Secondary Sources]
 * [|Web page Evaluation] - An excellent tool for determining the value of a web page. Includes a downloadable format.
 * [|OSLIS Elementary: How to Search the Web]
 * [|OSLIS Secondary: How to Search the Web]
 * [|Boolean search tips]
 * [|Rockwell Schrock's Boolean Machine]
 * [|Kid's Tools for Searching the Internet]
 * [|Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs]
 * **Read•Write•Think** lesson plans for selecting best resources (grades 3-5).
 * [|John Newbery Elementary School Information Pathfinders] - Locally developed pathfinders for K-5.
 * [|Pioneer Middle School Pathfinders] - Locally developed pathfinders for 6-8.
 * [|Walter Johnson High School Research Pathfinders] - A treasure trove of pathfinders for high school students.
 * [|Homework Pathfinders] - From the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library system. Includes several well-organized pathfinders for school projects.
 * [|Lakewood Public Library] - Class Assignment Pathfinders (Lakewood, Ohio) for Elementary, Middle and High School.
 * [|UMI Proquest] - The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.
 * [|eLibrary Elementary]
 * [|eLibrary K-12]
 * [|42Explore] - This amazing site has preselected Web resources and activities for multiple topics.
 * [|American Memory Collection] - from the Library of Congress. If you teach social studies, you need to visit this page. Click on Learning Page for lessons and resources.
 * [|Librarians' Index to the Internet]
 * [|KidsClick] - Sites selected by librarians. Includes reading levels.
 * [|Yahooligans] - Kid friendly sites from Yahoo for kids. Check out the teacher section.
 * [|Thinkfinity] - Links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and more. ||
 * [|The Trash-n-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking] - This is our favorite method for teaching/learning notetaking skills.
 * [|Notemaking] - This site has downloadable graphic organizers plus multiple methods for teaching notemaking.
 * [|Graphic Organizers] - A great collection of downloadable GO's.
 * [|Laura Chandler's File Cabinet - Graphic Organizers] - 3 quality GO's to download.
 * [|Graphic Organizer Index] - Examples and suggestions for use of GO's.
 * [|NCREL's Graphic Organizers] - Great examples and explanations of GO's from NCREL.
 * [|SCORE's Graphic Organizers]
 * [|WriteDesign On-Line - Graphic Organizers]
 * [|Graphic Organizers] - Download and print several GO's.
 * [|Graphic Organizer graphic organizers concept...]
 * [|Inspiration] - Software for creating graphic organizers. Download a trial copy. Includes Kidspiration for younger kids.
 * [|NoodleTools] - A subscription service for generating a bibliography.
 * [|Landmark Citation Machine]
 * [|Classroom Connect Community - Connected Teacher]
 * [|Plagiarism] - An online resource for checking sources.
 * [|Summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting] - Read the explanations from Joyce Valenza's site.
 * [|Copyright for Kids] ||
 * * [|Project Product Ideas]
 * [|Products and Assessments] - Elementary
 * [|Products and Assessments] - Secondary
 * [|Graphic Organizers] - GO's can serve as the final product as evidenced by the student work presented at this site. ||
 * * [|Discovery School.com - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators] - Links to many areas of assessment.
 * [|RubiStar Maker] - Make your own rubric by selecting different categories from this excellent online tool.
 * [|Project Checklists] - Customize your own checklist for project based learning.
 * [|Assessment Tools for Elementary]
 * [|Assessment and Project-Based Learning] ||

**G6™ PROJECTS and ORGANIZERS**

**Consider putting your project online for students to access from school or home. The following sites provide ideas and Web page templates:** **ECHNOLOGY and the BIG6™** **BIG6™ RESOURCES on SCHOOL SITE**
 * [|CyberBee: In the Hollow of a Tree]
 * [|American History Organizer] ||
 * * [|Applying Big6 Skills™, Information Literacy Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research] by Janet Murray
 * [|Big6 Web Guide] ||
 * * [|What is Information Literacy?] - An excellent guide to the Big6 Process for secondary students.
 * [|Research Skills] - A guide for a high school Science class.
 * [|Big Six at Lufkin High School -] This is an awesome site with support for everything to do with a research paper for secondary school staff and students.
 * [|The Big6 : Information Literacy] - A pathfinder to print and non-print resources about Big6.
 * [|IMC Big6] - Looking for the Big6 in Spanish? You'll find that and much more at this site.
 * [|Research Buddy] - This site takes elementary students through every step of the Big6 and provides valuable support materials.
 * [|The Super3] _- The Big6 for very young children.
 * [|Introducing the Super3] - The Super 3 discussed by Mike Eisenberg.
 * [|Big6™ Skills] Guide at John Newbery Elementary School Library ||

**Big6™ Skills Approach was developed by Michael B Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. The phrases "Big6 Skills" and "Big6 Skills Curriculum" are all copyrights of Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz.** || h[|ttp://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/big6/big6_resources.htm]

This library website is for LS 596.02. Last updated August 1, 2010.