Find and Evaluate Sources
Identify Relevant Material
Skill: Determine your research needs.
Skill: Understand different publication types.
Skill: Understand what primary and secondary sources are
Skill: Recognize which resources are the best to use and why.
ToolsBrainstorm list of possible resources.
Skill: Develop a strategy for finding relevant information, including a variety of resources.
Skill: Develop a strategy to solve an information problem
Skill: Understand importance of different points of view
Skill: Search library catalogs
Skill: Search different online databases, including using advanced search functions
Skill: Identify and use parts of a book to gather information
Skill: Select keywords and phrases for using internet search engines, directories, databases.
Skill: Be able to narrow and broaden keywords and phrases.
Skill: Understand how to locate material in school library and public library.
Skill: Understand the difference between a scholarly and popular magazine
Skill: Continue to develop list of key words
Tools : Google Search Education: Resources and teaching tools for building advanced web search skills.
Locate sources
Skill: Use advanced web search skills
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: Identify the type of each source
Skill: Read and understand a bibliographic citation
Skill: How to use Table of Contents and Index in print sources, topic guides in online sources
Evaluate Sources
Skill: Distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources in all formats
Skill: Determine if the information can be used, and in what way
Skill: Evaluate whether the source is useful for your particular topic/question
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: Differentiate between the different type of sources, for example: scholarly article vs. popular magazine
Skill: Learn how to evaluate a primary source
Skill: Determine how to know when to move on to more sophisticated, in-depth sources
Lessons/Assignments:
Keep track of sources
Skill: Create bibliography, using appropriate format, understanding reasons for this
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: Parenthetical citations and reasons for them
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: How to find bibliographic information in different types of sources
Identify Relevant Material
Skill: Determine your research needs.
Skill: Understand different publication types.
Skill: Understand what primary and secondary sources are
Skill: Recognize which resources are the best to use and why.
ToolsBrainstorm list of possible resources.
Skill: Develop a strategy for finding relevant information, including a variety of resources.
Skill: Develop a strategy to solve an information problem
Skill: Understand importance of different points of view
Skill: Search library catalogs
Skill: Search different online databases, including using advanced search functions
Skill: Identify and use parts of a book to gather information
Skill: Select keywords and phrases for using internet search engines, directories, databases.
Skill: Be able to narrow and broaden keywords and phrases.
Skill: Understand how to locate material in school library and public library.
Skill: Understand the difference between a scholarly and popular magazine
Skill: Continue to develop list of key words
Tools : Google Search Education: Resources and teaching tools for building advanced web search skills.
Locate sources
Skill: Use advanced web search skills
Lessons/Assignments:
- Assignment Using Google News Archives (topic is Beatniks, but can be adapted to other content)
- Skill: Select and use appropriate online databases
Skill: Identify the type of each source
Skill: Read and understand a bibliographic citation
Skill: How to use Table of Contents and Index in print sources, topic guides in online sources
Evaluate Sources
Skill: Distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources in all formats
Skill: Determine if the information can be used, and in what way
Skill: Evaluate whether the source is useful for your particular topic/question
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: Differentiate between the different type of sources, for example: scholarly article vs. popular magazine
Skill: Learn how to evaluate a primary source
Skill: Determine how to know when to move on to more sophisticated, in-depth sources
Lessons/Assignments:
- The CRAP test website evaluation worksheet
- CRAP test in action video
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Keep track of sources
Skill: Create bibliography, using appropriate format, understanding reasons for this
Lessons/Assignments:
- Handout: Bibliographies and parenthetical citations
- Handout: MLA Format
- Mini Lesson: Creating Bibliography/Citations
Skill: Parenthetical citations and reasons for them
Lessons/Assignments:
Skill: How to find bibliographic information in different types of sources