We are now going to take what we’ve been writing, and get some pictures to go with those words, to put it in a VoiceThread:
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Astronomy Lesson 4b: More Main Idea and Paraphrasing
- You will do a Google search to find a resource, or go to one of these links.
- Find a paragraph to summarize or paraphrase (that means to put it in your own words and shorten it).
- Write what you learned in your own words
- You will also copy the URL (the link at the top) from the page you go to and paste that in your comment.
Astronomy Lesson 4: Research – How to paraphrase
You will be learning an important lesson in research, how to put things into your own words, so you are not copying the words of others. This is important, because just copying is something called plagiarism, and can get you in a lot of trouble at school, and in life. Here is what you will do:
- You will go to one of the resources you get from these links, and
- Find a paragraph to summarize or paraphrase (that means to put it in your own words and shorten it).
- You will copy (CTRL-C) and paste (CTRL-V) the paragraph in the comment box below, then BELOW the paragraph, you will put what it says in your own words.
- You will also copy the URL (the link at the top) from the page you go to and paste that in your comment.