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| Date: 02/26/2002 |
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| Title: Research Integrity |
| Discipline: English, Language Arts, Technology |
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The main lesson addresses these academic content standards:
DCCS2, CS3
Reading/English Language Arts, Language for Research and Inquiry, Content Standard 3: Students use language and symbol systems to define problems and organize information. Grade 4: The student selects, locates and applies information from a variety of reference sources. The student creates simple databases and uses existing databases to search, organize and draw conclusions relating to a body of information; uses World Wide Web to research and retrieve information.
United States History
Historical Inquiry, Analysis and Judgement, Content Standard 2: Students use varied methods and sources in research and writing. Grade 5: The student identifies, analyzes and interprets primary sources. The student uses library systems and museums to acquire knowledge; use Internet, e-mail, and WWW to access, send, and receive communications, to research, to problem solve and to aid in decision making.
DCCS2, CS3
Science
Life Science, Content Standard 2: Observe, investigate, describe and classify living things; explain life cycles, diversity, adaptations, structure and function of cells and systems reproduction, heredity, interdependence, behavior, flow of energy and matter and changes over time. By the end of grade 5, the student will explain how changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial to it and sometimes harmful. By the end of grade 8, students will identify inter-relationships between organisms within an environment and the influence of physical conditions on survival.
English Language Arts
Reading/English Language Arts
Language for Research and Inquiry, Content Standard 3: Students use language and symbol systems to define problems and organize information.
MD1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5.8, 3.0, 3.8.2,
Writing 3.0: Students produce informational, practical, persuasive, and narrative writing that demonstrates an awareness of audience, purpose, and form using stages of the writing process as needed (i.e., pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). 3.8.2: By the end of grade 8, students know and are able to identify topics, ask and evaluate questions, and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research.
1. Understand and use the organizational features of printed texts such as the citations, bibliographic references, and appendices to locate relevant information,
2. Use organizational features of electronic information and library and interlibrary computerized catalogs to research information for specific purposes,
3. Give credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations.
Social Studies Skills 1.0: Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical and current events using chronological and spatial thinking, develop historical interpretations, and frame questions that include collecting and evaluating information from primary and secondary sources. 1.1: Students will use thinking processes and skills to gain knowledge of history, geography, economics, and political systems. 1.1.5.8 analyze issues by stating the issue, identifying and summarizing viewpoints, and drawing conclusions based on evidence.
VA4.9, 5.8, 6.9
Writing, Research 4.9: The student will use information resources to research a topic.
*Construct questions about a topic.
*Collect information, using the resources of the media center.
*Evaluate and synthesize information for use in writing.
*Use available technology.
5.8: The student will develop a general overview of content or to locate specific information.
*Develop notes that include important concepts, paraphrases, summaries, and identification of information sources.
*Use available electronic databases to access information.
*Credit secondary reference sources.
6.9: The student will select the best sources for a given purpose, including atlases, dictionaries, globes, interviews, telephone directories, encyclopedias, electronic databases and the Reader's Guide.
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