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Perseverance: Research Skills

alicemercer — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:13:59 +0000

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Perseverance Report: Reliability of Web sites

alicemercer — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:18:22 +0000

Today we are going to work on how reliable or accurate or correct information on Websites are.

Please go to this site and read about the Pacific Tree Octopus.

Perseverance Research: Google Wonder wheel

alicemercer — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:00:48 +0000

Today we are going to try to Narrow down your research topic. You will need to have your topic with you, or know what you chose as your topic (see below).

Type your topic in the Google search box at the top right of your browser
When you get to the results page, make sure that next to the search box it says, “Instant is off”
If it doesn’t, click on “Instant is on” and change it
Look in the column at the left (<- that way), and click on Wonder wheel
Use this to select one to three sub-topics to research
Write down your sub-topics, so you can find them next time you are here.

Research Topic

The Fire Builder
•   Survival in the Wilderness
•   Benefits of fire in ancient times
•   Canadian Wilderness

Amaroq, the Wolf
•   Grey Wolf behavior
•   The Alaskan tundra
•   The Inupiat and Yup’ik
•   Edible Plants
•   The food chain

On Top of the World
•   Other climbers of Mount Everest
•   Flags on Mount Everest placed by Tenzing and Norgay – Nepal, India, Great Britian
•   Mountain climbing
•   How was Mount Everest formed
•   The Himalayas

Saint George and the Dragon
•   Significance of Dragons in other cultures
•   Legends
•   Knights
•   Shields

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
•   Olympic athletes – pick an athlete from the past and an athlete from the past Olymics
•   The original Olympics
•   Explain the various track and field events
•   Civil Rights movement in the United States from 1913 to 1980
•   Other significant African American athletes or figures in United States history

Back to the Drawing Board
•   Women in aviation history
•   The first international flight
•   Paul Maccready
•   Airplanes today
•   Gliders
•   Hawk migration

Astronomy Lesson 4b: More Main Idea and Paraphrasing

alicemercer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:12:39 +0000

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

alicemercer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:42:14 +0000

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.

Astronomy Lesson 3b: Research Topics

alicemercer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:49 +0000

Now is the time when you get to pick a topic to research in Astronomy. Send me a note with two choices of topics you would like to look into and write about.

Possible topics:

A planet (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus)
Dwarf planets (like Pluto or Eris), comets and asteroids, or the Kuiper Belt
The sun
Unmanned spacecraft and explorers (like Voyager)
Manned spacecraft and missions (like the Space Shuttle, and Apollo Moon missions)
Stars and galaxies