Welcome, Spring! As March brings longer, sunnier, warmer days, 5th graders will be learning a bit more about excellent research skills. This month, CREATING great search strategies is the focus.
We'll start out by talking about brainstorming and use graphic organizers, or word webs, to create visual pictures of search terms. Here are some links to graphic organizer templates:
Graphic Organizers
Students also are learning to fine-tune their searching to get better results. Here is a link to a very short yet informative video that explains how to do this in very simple terms:
Web Search Strategies in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Two Web sites that help to create word webs are:
Quintura
Visuwords
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