Right now I'm working on ideas for my first ever lesson that I'll be presenting to a classroom of students. I'm mostly excited about hashing out the details, but I'm also somewhat nervous about the presentation of the lesson itself.
My mentor suggested I talk about how to research, as her students will be turning in a research paper as part of the next unit.
So far, I don't know what to do for my anticipatory set, but I do have an idea for the body of the lesson: taking them through the majority of the links on a symbaloo embedded on my website.
Symbaloo is a fantastic tool for organizing resources. It is essentially, at its most basic level, a graphic way to organize links. The organization is fantastic because its a simple color coding system.
For the purposes of my "Research Rules" lesson, it will be an easy way for students to think about where they are in the process of writing their research paper, and then go to the section on the symbaloo for resources.
I'm thinking of setting up my symbaloo in the following way:
1. Primary sources (links to where you can find free texts online)
2. Ideas (links for ideas on how to or what to write a research paper about)
3. Secondary sources (links to where you can find academic articles regarding your topic, now that you've chosen it)
4. Writing and citing (links to places where you can save your work and sites that teach you how to cite... possibly even to easybib.com and citationmachine ? Not completely sure if that is something my mentor would approve of, though, so I'll check with her first!)
Here is a link to symbaloo's website, and here is a link to my symbaloo (it's still in progress!) for the Research Rules lesson.
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