BonnieBlackburn

http:// google.com/ notebook/ public/ 12396423116915016261/ BDQ55DQoQ0MWi5M0k ** (This is the link to see my google notebook)

LESSON PLAN BONNIE BLACKBURN**


 * Date:** December 10, 2009 **Class:** English 12


 * Title/Subject of Lesson: **Research/learning to use Google notebook and Google docs.

Students will be able to successfully find material to use in their research project and store it in an effective manner on Google notebook or Google docs.
 * Objective:**


 * Concepts to Be Taught:** research skills, effective note taking and storing of research materials.


 * Materials Needed:** computers, google notebook, google docs


 * Strategies to be Used: ** brainstorming for research ideas, note organization.

**PERFORMING**


 * Continuation from Previous Lesson: **Students have just chosen a topic for their research paper. Today is the first day that the students have to do research on the internet.


 * Lesson Presentation: **

B) ****Directing the Learning: **Explain to students the importance of having an effective way to take notes while doing a research project. This is critical so that students don’t plagiarize material. Everything they use in their paper must have a source from whence it came. Another reason that taking notes is so important is so that when students are done with the research and sit down to write the actual paper, all of their material will be in one place. Students will not have to waste time trying to find quotes because everything will be effectively organized on googlenotebooks or googledocs.
 * A) ****Preparing the Learning**: Give each student four or five minutes to write to the following prompt, “What do you do with all the notes you take when you have to write a paper? What is the best way to organize this information?” After the time is up, have students share their answers. This will give the teachers a little bit of an idea of what the students currently do to organize research material, but more importantly it will let the students know that having a place to keep all the notes is an essential part of the research process and is something that they should be explicitly thinking about.
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Model to students how to use googlenotebook. First, students must have their subject picked out for a research paper. Let’s say the subject is immigration. Maybe the student wants to focus on three things: history of immigration, the Mexican border, and immigration laws. The notebook could be entitled Immigration and then the student can have a section in the notebook for each of those three parts. Show students how to title the notebook and how to make sections. Show them how to create links and share the page with others. Tell them how useful this is: if they are doing a project in a group, they can all collaborate on the notebook and add notes to different sections. Each section of the notebook is like a piece of paper that can be as long or as short as you want it to be.

Show the students the notebook that I have made entitled “How to make a googlenotebook.” (I have already invited all of the students to collaborate on this notebook) and have them all go in on their computers to look at this notebook. Click on one of the links that leads to the tutorial on youtube.

Before students start working on finding their information and putting it in googlenotebooks, show them that they can also put it on googledocs, too, or if they want to start writing their research paper on googledocs it is a good way to save pieces of writing. Google notebook is better for random notes from different areas that are unorganized and coming from many sources. Googledocs works better when trying to write a coherent organized paper. Point out to students that with googledocs, students can share just like they do with googlenotebooks and they can all collaborate and work on the same piece (this is great with peer review and we will be emphasizing this more when we do peer editing in groups. They will send their papers to each other through google docs)


 * C) ****Reinforcing the Learning: **Have students start finding the information that they want for their research project. Monitor while they do it and help them to effectively organize the info. Teaching something like googlenotebook helps students to be more excited about the research project because they get to use a cool new (for them!) technology, making it more fun.


 * Assignment** Before next class, students are to log onto the googlenotebook that I invited them to and watch the tutorials. They need to make one comment or add a note or a link or collaborate in some way before next class period so I know that they got onto the site.