Oregon Technology Standards #3 deals with "Research and Information Fluency", where "students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, validate and use information."
This standards addresses the question, "What sites are appropriate for my second graders to access for their Ocean Animal research project?"
My students and their parents who participate in helping them may now access my "Delicious.com" bookmark for safe and age appropriate research sites. As of now, I only have Enchanted Learning listed, but I plan to work with Mardi and our other 2nd grade teaching partner to locate more research sites. This tool will encourage independence (rather than students having me procure and print their information) in researching and summarizing information. I am looking forward to it!
This will be a great resource for them to have access to. I enjoyed learning about it in class last week!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great! I hope you and your students enjoy using this tool this year as you evaluate websites! It would be interesting to also include a link, possibly temporarily, to a site that would not be so great for research and then to have students figure out which one that is . . .
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