Daniel Jones

This packet teaches students how to search effectively online. I walks through why to use special characters when searching as well as how to narrow search results effectively. Students have opportunities to compare results from various search engines. There are tips for effective online research to yield the most relevant results. There are also pages dedicated to the actual research that will help students to identify information that will be needed when creating bibliography/ reference pages.

This is a worksheet that guides the students through their research of an author. This worksheet goes well with any book study. The worksheet goes beyond the typical biography questions and asks the students to dig a little deeper. It also asks the students to try to find out how to contact the author. This worksheet helps students to be able to write biographies on authors that are interesting for you to read.

Engage your students through their love of social media. This Instagram inspired worksheet allows students to work on summarizing skills. The students are asked to draw pictures of four events from the story. The students must write a sentence with hashtags about the picture. Your students are guaranteed to love this activity!

This is a step by step guide for students to use when editing a peer's paper. This guide will allow students to effectively look at a peer's paper and help them to identify the things that need to be changed. This actually teaches the students what it is they should be looking for when editing another student's paper.

Bring your students' world to the forefront of creating a biography on literary, scientific, historical or mathematical individuals. This is extremely fun for the students and they actually forget that they are doing research. The kids have a chance to be creative while communicating their understanding of the individual. This is a sure win with your students.

In this project, the students will be researching a pharaoh. You can assign the pharaoh or you can have the students pick a pharaoh. The students will researching information about their pharaoh, creating a tri-fold board, and writing a research paper. Because research tends to be difficult for young students, I created a research guide to help students figure out what information they will need to put into each paragraph as well as identify the information they will need when citing their sourc

In this project, the students will be researching a pharaoh. You can assign the pharaoh or you can have the students pick a pharaoh. The students will researching information about their pharaoh, creating a tri-fold board, and writing a research paper. Because research tends to be difficult for young students, I created a research guide to help students figure out what information they will need to put into each paragraph as well as identify the information they will need when citing their sourc