Applied Learning Standards: (see area in red font color)
The student uses technology to assist in gathering, analyzing, organizing and presenting information; that is the student demonstrates his/her:
1. Use of the internet: to acquire information for specific purposes from reliable on-line sources.
2. Use of software: to use word processing, graphics, spread sheets, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and other applications to produce reports and related materials.
3. Presenting Work: makes the result of their work available to various audiences by use of an appropriate presenting tool such as:
a. hardcopy-a printed copy of work used to reach a limited number of people.
b. PowerPoint- presentation software used to reach a larger group of people.
c. Web site- presentation becomes available to all people who have access to the internet
d. To do mathematical computation and to make graphs.
Project: Practice Internet Assignment: Research Paper
(Note Well: This assignment will use only information that belongs to other people. This is call plagiarism. Plagiarism is not allowed in doing a research paper for any class but this one. When you are doing a paper for a class, you must use your own thoughts and words. You may obtain ideas from other sources such as the internet but you may not "copy" other people’s ideas for use in your report. In this class, I am interested in your ability to locate reliable sources of information from the internet. For the purpose of saving time, I allow you to copy other people’s work but in general this is not an acceptable practice.)
Research Paper Assignment:
a. Choose a current topic from one of you team subjects. (Social Studies, English, Math or Science.) Have me approve the topic.
b. Open Internet Explore and open a web browser of your choice. Do a search on the approved topic. (We are looking for unusual information, not information that is easily available in an encyclopedia. No biographies!)
c. From the sites listed as a result of the search, choose a reliable site as a source of your information.
d. Open that site. Read the information on site as well as information that may be found on links from that site.
e. Determine what portion of the information you found will be used in you report. Copy and paste the information into a word processing document. (Maximum of two (2) pages for the final paper.)
f. Remove all unnecessary spaces from the text in the word processing document.
g. Format the text: Paragraph indent at the .5 inch mark, 1.5 spacing between the lines, justify the text. Size of font is point 12.
h. Set all the margins to the 1 inch mark.
i. Insert an appropriate title: Perfectly center on the page, separated from the text by a blank line and capitalize the first letter of each word. Size of font is 16 point.
j. Insert an illustration from the internet into your document. Align the illustration to the top right of the document. Wrap the text around the illustration. You should have the first two lines of the first paragraph above the illustration.
k. Cite the source of your information. See below for specifics.
l. Type your name and class on the bottom right of the document. Use align right function.
m. Save to your folder as a file with an appropriate name.
How To Cite A Source From The Internet.
These are the elements that go into a bibliography for information gathered from a web site: (Note: Omit any element that is not available on the website your are visiting)
You must have the following 4 items in you bibliography entry:
*The URL (web address); <http://www.uri.edu/socialstudies/humanity/origin>
*Date Accessed; 30 Jan. 2007.
*Page Title; "The Origins of Man."
*Name of website; University of Rhode Island.
The following 3 items are in the bibliograph entry only if available:
*Author (if available); Smith, John M.
*Institution Associated With the Article (if available); Department of Social Studies.
*Date Published (if available); 10 March 2001.
Note: When you enter the finished bibliograph data into the word processing document, It should be left aligned, no paragraph indent and single spaced.
Below is an example of a bibliography entry that has all the information above listed.
The data in red font color is arranged as indicated below.
Smith, John M. "The Origins of Man." University of Rhode Island. 10 March 2001. Department of Social Studies. 30 Jan. 2007.
<http://www.uri.edu/socialstudies/humanity/origin>
I would strongly suggest that you can go to www.easybib.com and have this site do the work for you. You still have to provide the information, but the site will complete the MLA format for you to copy and paste into your paper.
Test
To get information on a topic for your test, click here. Your will repeat the process listed above to complete the test requirments
Assessment:
See separate document: Research Paper
