Research Skills

OVERVIEW

In this module, you will be learning about a variety of instructional technology tools and strategies that support developing students' research skills.

OBJECTIVES

  • transform a traditional lesson plan that tasks students with conducting research through meaningful instructional technology tools and strategies

WONDER

Have you ever wondered how you can help students research a topic and write a research paper?

INVESTIGATE

Choose some tools/strategies from the list below that you'd like to investigate further.

LEARN

Visit the Resources page to view some video tutorials and read various support materials about your chosen tool/strategy to learn how to integrate technology into your lesson. Don't see what you'd like to learn? Please contact Rob Leo, Coordinator of Instructional Technology Training for support.

CREATE

Create a real-world example of whichever tool/strategy you have chosen, transform a lesson plan that integrates your selection, and deploy your lesson with your students.

Tools

  1. Save as PDF Chrome Extension
  2. Kami Chrome Extension
  3. Google Keep
  4. OWL at Purdue
  5. EasyBib Toolbar Chrome Extension
  6. Cite This For Me Chrome Extension
  7. Google Docs Explore Tool
  8. LucidChart
  9. Bubbl.us

Strategies

  1. Task students with conducting research via the school's database subscriptions and/or the Internet. Use the Save as PDF Chrome Extension to save webpages as PDFs. Use the Kami Chrome Extension to annotate PDFs.
  2. Students can use the Google Keep app on their phones and/or the Web to take notes, photos, audio recordings, drawings, or lists. Google Keep notes can be inserted into Google Docs and Google Slides.
  3. Students can use a variety of Chrome Extensions to cite their sources for their research: Cite This For Me, EasyBib Toolbar to name a few. Proper citation guidelines can be found at the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.
  4. Students can use the "Explore" tool in Google Docs to conduct research and create footnotes while they are involved in the writing process using Google Docs.
  5. Students can use mind mapping tools like LucidChart or Bubbl.us to organize their information.