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COLLABORATION SUCCESS!: A RESEARCH MODEL
Presenters: Darla Magana and Jeni Johnson from St. Margaret’s Episcopal School
Reproducibles at: http://www.smes.org/main/library/CSLA_2012_Collaboration_Success/presentation_links.html
WHO ARE WE?
Darla Magana [email protected]
Jeni Johnson [email protected]
Lori Donchak
HOW WE GOT STARTED
THE RESEARCH UNIT Ends with a debate—high motivation! Emphasis on the Research Process. Students will be able to access, evaluate,
analyze, and synthesize of information. Repetition of skills New topic each year
“Foundational”unit
• Military Draft • NASA• Universal Health Care• United Nations/
Humanitarian Assistance
• Net Neutrality• Nuclear Energy• US Social Services
THE RESEARCH PROCESS
Students introduced to this through the Research Process Tutorial!
RESEARCH PROCESS TUTORIAL
RESEARCH PROCESS TUTORIAL
RESEARCH PROCESS TUTORIAL
Quiz screen shot
PRESEARCH
Defining the terms Building background What do we know? What do we need to
know? Statistical information Key vocabulary
Understanding the end product Research binder organization
PRESEARCH—DAY ONE
RESEARCH
Learning to access helpful resources Know your resources Database Searching Web Evaluation
KNOW YOUR RESOURCES
KNOW YOUR RESOURCES
DATABASE SEARCHING
DATABASE SEARCHING
WEB EVALUATION
RESEARCH
The HEART of the research unit!
NOTEPACKET
Front side Notes (pro and
con) Main idea Summarize Analyze Categorize
NOTEPACKET
Back side Identify author
and sponsor/publisher
Learn about them
Evaluate their credibility
Identify bias
RESEARCH
What is Excellence? Guidance for when all the
different pieces of the notepacket.
RESEARCH
3-4 “guided” notepackets
2 guest speaker notepackets
2-4 database resources
Total of 9-11 required notepackets
CREATE
Outlines—pro and con Essays—pro and con Works Cited--Noodletools Debate
Teams of 4 people—combine their best arguments
Panel judging Best of the best move to school wide
debate
EVALUATE
Describe metacognition and growth mindset
What did you do well? What could you do better next time? Letter to your future self
EVALUATE—TEACHER STYLE!
What should we keep? What should we toss? What should we tweak and how?
Year one. A lesson in persistence.
TAKE AWAYS
Comprehensive process but the pieces could work alone.
Low tech—high tech EVERYTHING is linked from the CSLA
website (symbaloo link) Happy to share! Email or call us!
