Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. Process data and report results
Collect, analyze, synthesize - Students create a Native American Newspaper Article where they research a topic (Battle of Little Bighorn) and write a newspaper article from either the Government perspective or the Native American perspective
Evaluate information - In Business students research law cases, court decisions and the relevance to current cases
Ethically use information - students research their ethnic group's immigration history and talk to family members to assemble their own family tree publishing it in prezi
Validity - Library unit has students look at various web sites to evaluate the accuracy of published material
Creating information
Report results - in Modern Problems, students research current event topics and debate
Other Examples:
English Composition - students research and write a persuasive paper
AP English - students research and write a critical analysis paper
Junior English - students research and write a critical analysis paper
Senior English - students research and write a critical analysis paper
Spanish IV - students research and present on a topic of Spain
Spanish - students research problems such as existing land mines in Columbia
Public Speaking - students conduct research for both informative and persuasive speeches
Biology - students research genetic disorders and cures
Biology - students research an invertebrate or vertebrate phylum, and present to class
Chem Com - students research an element and present to class
Psychology - Psychological disorder research project - students research a disorder and present to class
Sociology Cultural Collage - students research a country's culture and create a collage presented to the class
Anthropology - students conduct research on the UNL Ashfall Fossel Beds site and share through Google docs
Sociology - Career unit - students use the Nebraska Career web site to research careers and present findings through a power point presentation