Here are some resources on research at the elementary level to guide your work with students.
Link to Elanco Elem Research Symbaloo mix
Internet Research General Strategies and Resources
- Doing internet research at the elementary level
- Wading through the web: Teaching Internet research strategies
- Primary research skills and tools
- 15 lesson plans for making students better online researchers
- Google search tricks (Prezi)
- Research skills and Google posters
- Teaching research in the elementary classroom
- Pinterest board filled with research resources
- Sample elementary library curriculum wiki with a number of resources
- Research Project Guide
- Google lesson plan search
- How to create a custom search engine in Google
- Search engines for elem. student use
- Getting kids engaged with primary resources
Specific Research Strategies
- The Super 3 and The Big 6
- More resources on The Big 6: http://big6.com/pages/kids.php http://www.kyvl.org/kids/homebase.html
Common Sense Media – Free Lesson Plans and Resources!
- A-B-C Searching
- My Creative Work
- Using Keywords
- Sites I Like
- Things for Sale
- The Key to Keywords
- Whose Is It, Anyway?
- How to Cite a Site
- Strategic Searching
- Identifying High Quality Sites
Organizing Information
Social Bookmarking (students and teachers bookmark sites and can access and share from anywhere using these accounts)
Notetaking
- Google Docs is a great place for students to summarize and take notes, save links, etc. as they’re researching online!
- Fact Fragment Frenzy
- Padlet and Lino and Primary Wall (online sticky notes)
- Summarizing and notetaking resources
After the research is done, here are some fun ways for students to share what they’ve learned: