Standards
ELACC6-8WHST7: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
ELACC6-8WHST6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
ELACC6-8WHST8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
ELACC6-8WHST9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
ISTE 2. Communication and collaboration
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
ELACC6-8WHST6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
ELACC6-8WHST8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
ELACC6-8WHST9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
ISTE 2. Communication and collaboration
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
Objectives:
Students will gather information from multiple print and digital sources as well as cite references.
Students will analyze information and draw supporting evidence [for their diary assertions].
Students will [be able to] create diary entries as a first person account of this explorer.
Students will analyze information and draw supporting evidence [for their diary assertions].
Students will [be able to] create diary entries as a first person account of this explorer.
Resources for teachers and credits for the creation of this project:
All the pictures that I used, for the Language Arts section, were from the Weebly site. I know Weebly generally embeds the citation for the pictures directly to the bottom of the site a picture is downloaded to. I contacted Weebly to find out why some of the pictures were not cited. Their response was, "If text giving credit for the image is not added automatically, then the image does not require it. Some images have different licensing rules associated with them. Thank you! Josh S, Weebly Customer Advocate".