SOCIALS STUDIES CBAS COMMON RESEARCH STEPS

Teacher Librarians have used a research process for years:

Big6, Research Cycle, Quest or some combination.

The steps are similar to the common elements of the Social Studies Classroom Based Assessments.

We are suggesting some tools to help student become more proficient in each stage of the process

Essential Question:

• Bellingham SD examples for different grade levels

• Galileo Info Network

• Questioning.org Module Maker- online lessons and examples of effective questions

• Thesis Builder- fill in the the form to make a thesis

• Thesis Generator ideas about the key points of thesis making

• Thesis arguments

• use define:"your word without quotation marks " on Google
• Visual Thesaurus- only the first few are free but inexpensive tool
• InfoPlease Social Studies http://www.infoplease.com/homework/hwsocstudies.html
• Textbooks and glossaries from reference books and key titles

• Statewide Databases- school and public libraries- Proquest, elibrary, Culturegrams
  Including Cobblestone, Calliope, Social Education and more in full text
• Online Readability Check http://www.readability.info
• Lexiles http://www.lexile.com method of Dept. of Education

• Graphic organizers like Inspiration and Kidspiration (purchase)

• Mindomo.com- new free online organizer

• Read/Write/think organizer- make online and then print

• Online note taker from Read Write Think

• Note Star part of 4teachers.org, requires sign up

• Timeline Generator from Read Write Think

• Timeline Generator from Teach-nology

• Persuadestar part of 4teachers.org, requires sign up
• Graphic organizer for arguments for persuasive paper Read/Write Think
• Standards for group discussions MCREL standards

• Web page poster part of 4 teachers.org, requires sign up
• Annotated Bibliography
  • Oregon OSLIS Citatation- Elementary and Secondary
  • Noodlebib Express (free) and Noodlebib (subscription account) http://www.noodletools.com
  • Citation Machine