Lesson: Properly Citing Sources
Instructor:
Shawn Wendell Davies, Instructional Technologist.
Grade Level: 8th Grade Georgia Studies
Explanation: In Georgia Studies, one of the things that students are required to do is use primary and secondary sources to help them better understand the State of Georgia. However, these students are not always shown how to properly cite these sources when they use them in papers. This assignment will help show students what how to cite sources, as well as what does and does not require a cite.
Standards:
ISTE Standards
3. Research and information fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
5. Digital citizenship Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
GCPS AKS (similar to GA Performance Standards)
S.B.18: identify and use primary and secondary sources
Resources:
Guiding Essential Question:
Why is it important to give people credit for there work? How do you do it?
Estimated Lesson Time: 3 days
Instruction and Activities:
Day One:
Day Two:
Day Three:
Assessment:
Formative Assessment: I will be monitoring students through out the lesson. Some of the things that we be formally assessed include:
Summative Assessment: Students will be assessed on how well they have applied the knowledge they have learned in the class to their reflection. There reflection should show:
Instructor:
Shawn Wendell Davies, Instructional Technologist.
Grade Level: 8th Grade Georgia Studies
Explanation: In Georgia Studies, one of the things that students are required to do is use primary and secondary sources to help them better understand the State of Georgia. However, these students are not always shown how to properly cite these sources when they use them in papers. This assignment will help show students what how to cite sources, as well as what does and does not require a cite.
Standards:
ISTE Standards
3. Research and information fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
- A. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
- B. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
5. Digital citizenship Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
- A. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
- C. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
- A. Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation
- B. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
GCPS AKS (similar to GA Performance Standards)
S.B.18: identify and use primary and secondary sources
- 8SS.B.18.a: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
- 8SS.B.18.e: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Resources:
- School desktops
- SmartBoard
- Curated List on Ethical Citing
- Padlet
- 2.0 Web tool of student’s choice (Powtoon, Infographics, Prezi, etc.)
Guiding Essential Question:
Why is it important to give people credit for there work? How do you do it?
Estimated Lesson Time: 3 days
Instruction and Activities:
Day One:
- The teacher raises the question of whether or not people should be given credit for there work.
- Students will reply to the questions via padlet:5 Minutes
- Class will the discuss the answers that were given agreeing and disagreeing respectfully as they go through them: 10 Minutes
- Teacher will explain what citing means “a way of giving people credit for their work
- Students will use the curated list to figure out how to properly cite a source
- Will be looking for how to cite source
- Find aide in how to determine what does and does not need a citation: 25 Minutes
- Students will be asked to find two short article using Galileo teen on a Social Studies topic of their choosing (brought in for teacher approval)
- Finish looking over your curated list
Day Two:
- Students are given the option to use any 2.0 web tool of their choosing to help explain what does and does not require a source, as well as how to properly cite a source: 55 Minutes
- Students who finish early will be asked to start reading the articles that they were required to bring to class.
- Read and annotate the articles that you brought in for approval
- Finish “Citing project if needed”
Day Three:
- Students will take turns present there “Citing” projects to the class:15 Minutes
- Students will be asked to write a 3 paragraph summary on topic of their article: 40 Minutes
- Students must have an Intro, Body, and Conclusion paragraph
- Students must use their articles in there summary at least three times
- Must explain why each of the citations were needed
Assessment:
Formative Assessment: I will be monitoring students through out the lesson. Some of the things that we be formally assessed include:
- How well they work with other
- The discussion that there having with the groups
- The notes that they are writing in their notebooks
- The depth of knowledge shown in their 2.0 web tool presentation
Summative Assessment: Students will be assessed on how well they have applied the knowledge they have learned in the class to their reflection. There reflection should show:
- Properly used citations
- Correct reason for why citations were used.