1.Research for the 21st Century NCAGT March 27, 2009Karma Maples Gifted Education Specialist kmaples@nhcs.k12.nc.us

2. 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Learner has four skill sets that learners must progress through to become highly productive participants in the 21st Century. 3. enGauge 21st Century Skills For 21st Century Learners by METIRI Group in partnership with Learning Point Associates 4. Come up with words, phrases, and illustrations to describe what a student would look like if they possessed each of the four skill sets. Write these descriptions on items of clothing so the learner could be dressed for success in the 21st Century. 5. How doesresearch fitinto 21stcentury skills? 6. What are some ofthe problems with using research with young children? 7. Research with young students Hands on Teacher directed Short term 8. Observational 9. Beginning Note taking Students observe or read information on a topic and then draw what they have learned. Using only pictures they can not copy out of the book. 10. Note taking continued Develop a set of questions that require short one or two word answers. Students then read through books, magazines, or internet sites provided by the teacher to find and record the answers to each question. 11. Next step. . . Putting it altogether in an easy to use format. I use IIM, Independent Investigation Methods, developed by Cindy Nottage and Virginia Morse. 12. ALL STUDENTS REALLY CAN DO RESEARCH WITHOUT COPYING! I ndependentI nvestigation M ethodDeveloped by Cindy Nottage and Virginia Morse - Consultants 13. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION METHOD Follow These Footsteps to Success in a Research Project Topic Goal Setting ResearchOrganizingGoal EvaluationProduct Presentation 14. Goal SettingSETTING RESEARCH GOALS My Notefact Goal:35 Required Glossary Entries: 10 Required Number of Resources: 4 FOCUSING ON Required Resource Types: Book SPECIFIC GOALSInternetPrimary Source QUESTIONS TO GUIDE MY RESEARCH Teacher Question: (Essential question(s) go here) What characteristics are critical to a tribes identity? My Goal-Setting Questions: STUDENT QUESTIONS GO HERE.FORMULATING 1. How did the Hopi use their environment for food,shelter, and QUESTIONS other things? 2. 15. GOOD QUESTIONS CUBES ACTIVITYWith your partner Roll cubes one time. Write at least 3 questions about your tribe using the words you rolled. Roll cubes again, making sure the words are different from the first roll. Write at least 3 questions about your tribe for each roll using the words you rolled. Choose your favorite(s) to share with the class. 16. Start your studentsThey can also add or with the red andsubstitute the greenblue words. words to get new ideas. WhoCanPredict What/WhichWouldAnalyze Why isVerify When WillCompare Where MightContrastHow Did List 17. Research Steps to Taking Notefacts Each resource you use will have its own number. Put that number in the large magnifying glass and on all the small magnifying glasses next to each notefact. Record the required information for your bibliography on the solid lines (Manual pp. 50-51). Notefacts are short (note) and true (fact). Notefacts should be: Written in your own words Short but complete enough to make sense Related to your goal-setting questions Written between the dotted lines one notefact per space Documented by page number 18. HOPI Descendents of the Anasazi culture, the Hopi people live on the Mesa areas of Northeastern Arizona. Their reservation land is completely surrounded by the large Navajo reservation the only Indian nation surrounded by another. They live much like their industrious ancestors the villages resembling the pueblos of the past, farming their fields of corn, squash, beans, and melons nearby. Hopi baskets, both coiled and wicker, depicting the most simple designs to the most intricate forms of animals and Kachinas, are considered to be some of the finest woven anywhere today. Bibliographic Citation: Silver Cloud. Indian Heritage of the Southwest. AZ:Smith-Southwestern, 1992. 19. PracticeWrite down at least three note facts from the previous page. 20. HOPI Descendents of the Anasazi culture, the Hopi people live on the Mesa areas of Northeastern Arizona. Their reservation land is completely surrounded by the large Navajo reservation the only Indian nation surrounded by another. They live much like their industrious ancestors the villages resembling the pueblos of the past, farming their fields of corn, squash, beans, and melons nearby. Hopi baskets, both coiled and wicker, depicting the most simple designs to the most intricate forms of animals and Kachinas, are considered to be some of the finest woven anywhere today. Bibliographic Citation: Silver Cloud. Indian Heritage of the Southwest. AZ:Smith-Southwestern, 1992. 21. NOTEFACTSResearch (Common student errors) -------------------------------------------------- What is a Kachina? It is a spirit, a 1 supernatural being.(Plagiarized) ----------------------------------------------------The Hopi reservation is in the middle 1 of the Navajo reservation (Too many words) -------------------------------------------------- grew corn, squash, beans, melons, made 1 baskets, silver jewelery, pottery, lived in pueblos on mesas, had religious ceremonies in kivas (Too much in 1 notefact) ----------------------------------------------------religious ceremonies (Incomplete information) 1----------------------------------------------------- 22. OrganizingOrganizing Notefacts Notes About PlantsIII. The Hopi depend on plants for survival. A. Crafts 1. weave baskets on Third Mesa2 2.N G use purple hair grass for brushesN I23. L IU T make dishes out of gourds they grow1B. FoodO1. grow corn, beans, squash, melons 3. 23. Making business cards as a product Poster products 24. A paper 3-D model of a fort made by a kindergarten student 25. Step 7: Presentation Fact Gathering from PresentationsPRESENTER(S)ENVIRONMENT SURVIVALTRADITIONS NAME: MaryTOPIC: NavajoNAME: TroyING I STEN TOPIC: ApacheVEL ACTINAME: JoseTOPIC: Zuni 26. Want to see more? CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE FOR IIM TOOLS FOR SUCCESS WITH RESEARCH www.iimresearch.com/products/ STUDENT PRODUCTS, IIM UNITS, RESEARCH STRATEGIES, AND OTHER GOODIES www.iimresearch.com/teacher_lounge/ IIM TRAININGwww.iimresearch.com/training/ QUESTIONS? CALL CINDY, VIRGINIA, OR KIM AT 1-800-644-5059 E-MAIL US AT info@iimresearch.com 27. Questions 28. Thank You Karma Maples kmaples@nhcs.k12.nc.us Codington Elementary School 4321 Carolina Beach Road Wilmington, NC 28412 910-790-2236