Webliography

BIG6 WEBPAGE

The Big6

http://www.big6.com

BIG6 GUIDELINES

Applying Big6 skills and Information Literacy Standards to Internet Research

http://www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm/big6info.htm

Bright Bird: A PowerPoint introduction to the Big6 (Intermediate)

http://www.redlands.qld.edu.au/library/bribird.html

The Super Three (Primary)

http://academic.wsc.edu/redl/classes/Tami/super3.html

HANDY TOOLS

Big6 Assignment Organizer (Grades 7-12)

http://www.standrews.austin.tx.us/library/Assignment%20organizer.htm

Page of Practical Printouts for doing research with the Big6

http://www.squires.fayette.k12.ky.us/library/research/prntouts.htm

Nuts and Bolts of the Big6 - A game for 5th and 6th Grade

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/big6/game/index.html

SAMPLE LESSON PLANS

Big6 Lessons - Grades 3-12

http://www.big6.com/showcategory.php?cid=19

Big6 Project pages from St. Agnes Academy (Grades 7-12)

http://www.st-agnes.org/library/projects/bigsix.html

Search ERIC

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml

Big6 Step by Step - Research the American Revolution (Grade 5-6)

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~scg5805/group7/example5.htm

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Essential Questions

http://www.rainbowtech.org/workshops/TechInt_WQ/DevEssQuest.htm

Detailed Explanation of an "Essential Question"

http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/probsol2.htm

Examples of Essential Questions by Grade Level (K-5)

http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/essenque.htm

INTERNET SEARCH STRATEGIES

CyberSmart Curriculum

http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org

Search Tools

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html

Boolean Searching

http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html

Interactive Boolean Search Tutorial

http://library.nyu.edu/research/tutorials/boolean/boolean.html

WEBSITE EVALUATION

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (Includes links to forms and articles)

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

The ABC's of Website Evaluation

http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to apply (For upper grade levels)

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

ICYouSee T is for Thinking

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott10a.html

Gallery of Hoax Websites

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

Internet Detective — Interactive Tutorial

http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism Theme Page

http://www.cln.org/themes/plagiarism.html

Is it plagiarism? A Discussion

http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/isitplag.html

You make the call! — An online tutorial on Plagiarism (Upper grade levels)

http://www.engl.niu.edu/comskills/students/plagiarism/PlagiarismTest.html

Paraphrasing Online Activity

http://se002.k12.sd.us/paraphrasing.htm

RUBRICS

Rubistar

http://rubistar.4teachers.org