Presents techniques and supporting materials to assist high school students in research, includes detailed project lessons, student handouts, and assessment tools.
Contains lessons designed to introduce elementary and middle grade students to the basic research processes and to provide opportunities for them to practice these processes.
topic guides for finding information on current issues
Whitley, Peggy
2001
A guide to finding information on ninety-nine topics, designed to help students through the research process, each with search terms; definitions and explanations of the topic; background and statistics; lists of library subject headings, newspapers and magazines, and agencies to contact; and Internet addresses.
Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a classroom model that will teach students how to become effective users of information and better understand the research process.
Explains how to write an effective book report, covering such aspects as choosing the book, thinking while reading, writing a first draft, and preparing the final draft, and offers tips for oral presentations.
Provides students and teachers with hundreds of ideas for term papers related to one hundred significant events in nineteenth-century world history and lists thousands of print and nonprint sources.
A comprehensive guide to creating different types of research projects for English, science, and history classes; with tips on taking notes, collecting data, proper documentation, and the writing process.
Presents a list of topics for student research projects, with symbols indicating the level of difficulty and likelihood of finding materials in the library.