Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
Example: Gather relevant resources from multiple sources that fit purpose and audience. Evaluate those resources for currency, relevance, authority (source), accuracy, and purpose.
Illustration: Students use a variety of search strategies to locate resources that are relevant and aligned to their intellectual or creative pursuits.
Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.
Example: Use a variety of tools and strategies to locate credible and relevant resources
Illustration: Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
Example: Develop a collection of digitally curated resources to create content (e.g., table of contents, citations, etc.) Use tools such as Diigo or Wakelet to curate information and resources.
Illustration: Students use a variety of tools and methods to organize information and make meaningful connections between resources.
Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.
Example: Project Based Learning, Inquiry Based Learning, Challenge Based Learning, Design Thinking, Engineering Design Process, Computational Thinking.
Illustration: Students explore real-world problems and issues and collaborate with others to find answers or solutions.