I re-designed the Research Planner I use with the kids. I'm torn on this--the older students tend to ignore it, to be honest. Which is understandable, I suppose. I mean, I know I don't sit down and plan out all of those when I am seriously searching. Do any of you? So how realistic are we really being in asking them to do this?
On the other hand, I already know all of this, and am able to "do it on the fly," as it were. Maybe the whole point is to
force encourage students to do it enough, that thinking about all of this becomes embedded in their practice. I'm more insistent/persistent with the middle-schoolers about actually writing down book titles, etc. With the older students it's more of a reminder: "Hey, you need to think about this!"
UPDATE: It just occurred to me (in one of those "Duh!" kind of moments!), that I uploaded the PDF, which isn't editable, making it hard to change the databases section to reflect your own! If you want to edit the file, use
PDF to Word to convert it. Or, if you're a Pages user, just leave your email address in the comments section, and I'll email you the document.
Research Planner
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