This page is designed to assist both students and parents in the preparation and delivery of the 7th grade research assignment. MUCH time is spent in 7th grade learning the correct way to conduct research using print and online CREDIBLE sources. The 7th research grade project focuses on a person who would be a good candidate for a US postage stamp.This IS NOT a biographical sketch about a person's life - it is to focus solely on why this person is considered worthy of a postage stamp being created in their honor
The language arts portion of this project covers the following skills:
- organizing information using a topic outline
- creating MLA format research notecards (used to create a bibliography at the end of the research)
- summarizing, paraphrasing, and using direct quotes when taking research notes
- creating relevant and useful props
- oral presentation of information
- choosing relevant information for a topic, purpose, and audience
- creating an accurate and complete bibliography
Click HERE to see the Time 100 list for 2012
click HERE to see the list of current USPS postage stamps
click HERE to read more about how stamp topics are selected
click HERE to see the list of current USPS postage stamps
click HERE to read more about how stamp topics are selected
click here to read a little more about how stamp subjects are selected
click HERE to learn more about stamp selection
In preparation for students to complete their own project, the class will work together, under my direction, to complete a mini-research project on Benjamin Banneker and why he received a postage stamp in his honor. The main focus of this mini-project is to teach students to evaluate various research sources for relevant information. Relevant information os then placed on MLA notecards (which become examples for students to refer to when completing their own notecards)click HERE to learn more about stamp selection
NOTECARDS - 25 pts:
These are your first deadline and we will be doing lots of practice in class. On your due date, you should be able to turn in AT LEAST 3 complete and accurate notecards from three DIFFERENT sources. (Example #1: 2 cards from the same website and one card from a newspaper article is only TWO sources. Example #2: Two notecards from two different websites and one card from an online encyclopedia is THREE sources.)
General guidelines for conducting research:
Students are taught to consider which research sites are credible. This is to discourage them from simply "Googling" their research person's name and writing down the first information they see, which may or may not be factual. Evaluating websites training will be provided by the media center so students can make an informed decision in regards to the information they are looking at.Websites that end in .gov or.edu are always acceptible, as is information from online magazines, newspapers, and books. Of course, books in print, magazines in print, newspapers in print, and other reference books in print are acceptible as well.
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION:
These are your first deadline and we will be doing lots of practice in class. On your due date, you should be able to turn in AT LEAST 3 complete and accurate notecards from three DIFFERENT sources. (Example #1: 2 cards from the same website and one card from a newspaper article is only TWO sources. Example #2: Two notecards from two different websites and one card from an online encyclopedia is THREE sources.)
It is extremely important that students use the info learned in class during our Bejamin Banneker "mini-project" in regard to a complete and accurate MLA notecard. The info supplied on notecards will not only become the backbone of your research presentation, but it will also be the entire source of your BIBLIOGRAPHY information.
General guidelines for conducting research:
Students are taught to consider which research sites are credible. This is to discourage them from simply "Googling" their research person's name and writing down the first information they see, which may or may not be factual. Evaluating websites training will be provided by the media center so students can make an informed decision in regards to the information they are looking at.Websites that end in .gov or.edu are always acceptible, as is information from online magazines, newspapers, and books. Of course, books in print, magazines in print, newspapers in print, and other reference books in print are acceptible as well.
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