Big 6 Skills Presentation

Super 3 Presentation

Banana Split Presentation

Student & Teacher Resources

CONTENTS

Students OnlineThere are 10 million children online

By the year 2005, there will be over 50 million children online

14% of people under 18 are currently online

32% of children between the ages of 16 and 17 spend five or more hours online per week

INFORMATION OVERLOAD!

• More information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5000

• There is a new website every 4 seconds!

• World Wide Web is doubling every 90 days!

This month, another 18 million people will go on line

Students need help organizing information

How can one deal with the amount of information?

How can we train students to sift and sort through what is important and what is not?

Teach them a strategy for searching, using and evaluating information on the World Wide Web – Teach them…

THE BIG 6 SKILLS

THE BIG SIX #1Task Definition

•Identify the information needed

•Define the problem

“What do I need to do?”

THE BIG SIX #2INFORMATION SEEKING

STRATEGIES

•Brainstorming all possible resources

•Select the best resources

“What can I use to find what I need?”

THE BIG SIX #3LOCATION & ACCESS

•Locate Sources

•Find information within sources

“What can I use to find what I need?”

THE BIG SIX #4USE OF INFORMATION

•Engage (read, hear, view, or touch)

•Take out needed information

“What information can I use?”

THE BIG SIX #5SYNTHESIS

•Organize information from multiple sources

•Present the results

“How can I put my information together?”

THE BIG SIX #6EVALUATION

•Judge the results (effectiveness)

•Judge the process (efficiency)

“How will I know if I did well?”

THE Big 6 SKILLSBuilding a Banana

Split!

Go Bananas!Learn more about the

Banana Split

THE BIG SIX #1

Task Definition

IDENTIFYING THE INFORMATION NEEDED

DEFINE THE PROBLEM

•What does a “banana split” look like?

•Why is it called a banana “split”?

•Are you going to make or buy them?

•How much money do you have to spend?

•What store will you go to?

•What grocery items will you need?

•How many banana splits do you want to make?

THE BIG SIX #2

INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGIES

DETERMINE ALL POSSIBLE RESOURCES

EVALUATE AND PRIORITIZE POSSIBLE SOURCES

•Gather recipes from the Internet

•Call other ice cream places

•Check cook books

•Choose bananas, ice cream, toppings, etc.

•Prioritize the items that best fit your needs

•Make a grocery list of ingredients and materials needed

THE BIG SIX #3

LOCATION & ACCESS

LOCATE SOURCES

FIND INFORMATION WITHIN SOURCES

•Are you in the right aisle, in the store you choose

•You must now choose the best ingredients and materials, according to the amount of money available and description of the products you need.

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THE BIG SIX #4

USE OF INFORMATION

ENGAGE (read, hear, view, or touch)

TAKE OUT NEEDED INFORMATION

•Time to begin making the banana splits!

•Organize your “information sources” (peel the bananas, take topping out of the original containers and put them in separate bowls, make all the tools available)

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THE BIG SIX #5

SYNTHESISORGANIZE THE INFORMATION FROM

MULTIPLE SOURCES

PRESENT THE RESULT

•Place each of the items in the banana split dish in a neat order, following the recipe/directions chosen

•Make sure the banana split looks “pretty”

•Share the banana split with friends. Everyone may eat and enjoy!

THE BIG SIX #6

EVALUATIONJUDGE THE RESULTS OR PRODUCT (effectiveness)

JUDGE THE PROCESS (efficiency)

•How did the banana split look?

•How did the banana split taste?

•Was it good?

•What was the quality of the ingredients?

•When making the banana split next time, would you do anything different?

•How did the looking for the recipes and directions work?

•Was anything missing?

TASTY RECIPES

Hookery Cookery.com

Back of the Box.com

Grocery Shop.com

Indo Indians.com

Cooking.com

Banana day: Activities and Lesson plan

Theme Day.com

THE super 3 SKILLS

THE Super three #1BEGINNING - PLAN

•What am I supposed to do?

•What will the result look like if I do a really good job?

•What do I need to find out about in order to do a good job?

Students should be thinking…

Example of Step 1• You want something sweet and

it’s a hot day, so you decide to make yourself a sundae.

-What will you need?

-Where will you get your supplies?

-How do I make it?

-What should it look like?

THE Super three #2Middle - do

In the middle, students complete various activities…

•Finding necessary sources

•Reading and/or viewing the information in the sources

•Putting it all together as a finished assignment

Example of Step 2• Time to “do it”

-Find your ingredients

-Get out your supplies

-Put it all together•Remember to make it look good and use fresh ingredients

THE Super three #3End - review

Before the assignment is finished and turned in, students should stop and think…

•Is this done?

•Did I do what I was supposed to do?

•Do I feel OK about this?

•Should I do something else before I turn it in?

Example of Step 3

• Review it…before you eat it

-Does it look nice?

-Did I put everything on it?

-Finally, does it taste good…

•Good enough to share?

Big 6 Assignment Organizer – 3rd through 6th

Big 6 Assignment Organizer – 7th through 8th

Big 6 Home Page

Student and Teacher Resources

A Night at the

Movies!(for $10 or less)

Frodo Baggins: Elijah WoodGandalf: Ian McKellenAragorn: Viggo MortensenSam: Sean AstinBilbo: Ian HolmArwen: Liv TylerSaruman: Christopher LeeNew Line presents a film directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Jackson, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Running time: 178 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for epic battle sequences and some scary images).

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (PG-13, 178 min.)

Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 1816046 North Arrowhead Fountain Center DrivePeoria, AZ 85345(602) 222-4275 http://www.harkinstheatres.com/index.html

Time: 5:50 pm (twilight show)

Cost: $5.00

Where, When and How Much!

Refreshments: I’ll have $5.00 for food

Company: My friend Cortez is going

Transportation: My Dad will take us at 4:30 / He will pick us up at 9:30

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