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English · Grade 7

Research with Multiple Credible Sources

Learners research how rain gardens help reduce flooding using five fictional sources that agree, disagree and sometimes repeat each other. They generate focused follow-up questions and use advanced search strategies, corroborate facts across independent credible sources and trace conflicting claims to their origin, organize notes in a synthesis matrix while paraphrasing honestly, and cite sources with in-text citations and a works-cited list.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Multiple-source research check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order, sort into groups and write a short answer
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What learners will discover

  • Generate a research question and related, focused follow-up questions, and use effective search strategies.
  • Corroborate information across independent credible sources and resolve conflicting claims by tracing them to their origin.
  • Organize notes from several sources by subtopic and quote or paraphrase without plagiarizing.
  • Cite sources using in-text citations and a works-cited list in a standard format.

Lessons

  1. Questions and searches 5 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  2. Corroborate and resolve conflicts 6 steps3 practiceabout 28 min
  3. Synthesis matrix and honest notes 5 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  4. Cite in the text and at the end 5 steps3 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Multiple-source research check 9 questions at the end

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