Provide relevant research information to develop and support a complicated topic. 0601.4.8

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1. Critical Evaluation of Resources - In the research process you will encounter many types of resources including books, articles and web sites. But not everything you find on your topic will be suitable. How do you make sense of what is out there and evaluate its authority and appropriateness for your research?
2. Determining Relevancy - help students understand the practice and value of evaluating information for relevancy to their research question
3. Electronic Resources - activity requiring students to use sources to find information before taking a short quiz
4. Electronic Text - requires students to use sources to find information before taking a short quiz
5. Highlighting Relevant Information - teach students how to find and highlight the relevant information that answers their research question
6. How do we know what we know? - analyzing primary sources - lesson plan; analyze a picture of a Powhatan object shown on the John Smith map in order to learn more about Powhatan Indian life
7. Primary Source Documents - over two dozen links to primary source documents on the web
8. Primary Sources on the Web - list of web sites containing primary source materials
9. Primary Source & Archived Collections Projects - projects use 'real-time' data from government and commercial databases
10. Primary and Secondary Sources - Primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past. By looking closely for details, students can draw conclusions about the items and formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created

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