Grade Level:
Fourth Grade – second six weeks
Organizing Idea: Interactions: Many faces, many places
Title/Subject:
What’s rockin’?
Time Frame:
45 minutes
Objectives:
Students will practice trash and treasure note-taking skills
while understanding the importance not to plagiarize.
TEKS:
SS.4.22.A Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to
organize and use information acquired from a variety of sources including
electronic technology. The student is expected to differentiate between, locate, and
use primary and secondary sources such as computer software; interviews;
biographies; oral, print, and visual material; and artifacts to acquire information
about the United States and Texas.
SS.4.23.D,E Social studies skills. The student communicates in written, oral, and
visual forms. The student is expected to:
(D) create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic
organizers, outlines, and bibliographies; and
(E) use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation.
Materials: handouts, pencils, and computers with Internet access
Procedures:
1) Discuss the meaning of plagiarism.
2) Demonstrate the Trash n’ Treasure method of note-taking.
3) Pass out handouts and go over the instructions.
4) Show students where to find the handout online if you have made it
available.
5) Monitor students’ progress. If enough computers are available have
students work individually at the same time. If not the worksheet can be
completed during stations/center time.
Evaluation: Observation and completeness/correctness of handout.
Resources:
Websites for the handout were found together at the following website:
Cyberhunt Kids
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/gems.htm
Reading for Information: The Trash-N-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking (Grades 3 - 12), by:
Barbara A. Jansen
http://www.big6.org/showarticle.php?id=45
Name ____________________________
Date_________________
What’s Rockin’?!?
Directions: Complete the activities using the websites you choose from this list.
USGS Geology in the Parks: What on Earth is Plate Tectonics?
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/pltec/index.html
USGS Learning Web :: Explorers :: Rocks and Images
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_rocks.htm
Earth Floor: Cycles
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html
Rocks And Minerals: Facts - Idaho Public Television
http://www.idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season3/rocks/facts.html
Rock Expert Activity
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/expert/index.html
Geodes (DesertUSA)
http://www.desertusa.com/magjan98/jan_pap/du_rock_geode.html
Amethyst Galleries - The Gemstone Minerals
http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/gemstone/class.htm
Geo-Mysteries @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/floatingrock/a1.html
1) Choose one website and put a circle around it.
2) What is the purpose of this website? What does the site author want you to learn?
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3) Find one important fact and write it exactly as found on the site. Use quotation
marks to show that the fact is not your own words.
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4) Now choose on a few important words or very short phrases (no more than 4 words)
in the sentence above and circle those (treasure). Cross out the rest of the words
(trash).
5) Repeat steps three and four.
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6) Write a sentence or two of your own using the words you have circled.
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7) Choose a second website from the list and draw a box around it.
8) What is the purpose of this website? What does the site author want you to learn?
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9) Find one important fact and write it exactly as found on the site. Use quotation marks
to show that the fact is not your own words.
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10) Now choose on a few important words or very short phrases (no more than 4 words)
in the sentence above and circle those (treasure). Cross out the rest of the words
(trash).
11) Repeat steps nine and ten.
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12) Write a sentence or two of your own using the words you have circled.
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13) Now write a paragraph to show what you have learned from these websites, include
the sentences you have created. Use the back of this page if necessary.
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