A visual aid featuring various emotions and teacher guidance for helping ELL students express how they feel.
Teacher guide for Lesson 5. Features category sorting challenges, instructional tips for using graphic organizers, and a summary of the Research Ranger sequence.
Printable 'Lead Detective' badges to be awarded to students upon completion of the Information Detectives sequence.
A student graphic organizer for sorting informational facts into categories (Habitat, Diet, Appearance, Interesting Info). Features a bank of elephant facts for sorting practice.
A final assessment worksheet where students investigate three articles and determine which is a credible fact based on their 'Information Detective' skills.
Student worksheet for Lesson 5, featuring simulated search results (snippets) that students must evaluate to choose the most appropriate source for a research question about astronauts.
Educational slides for teaching students how to organize information into categories using a graphic organizer. Includes a sorting hook and visual guide for the 'Fact Sorter' activity.
Teacher's guide for Lesson 5, focusing on evaluation of digital search snippets and teaching students to use titles and summaries as evidence for source selection.
A slide deck for Lesson 5 that guides students through their final case investigation and badge ceremony.
A teacher guide for Lesson 5, the culminating lesson where students apply their skills to investigate final cases and earn detective badges.
Slides for Lesson 5 on selecting digital sources, teaching students to evaluate search results by reading titles and summaries (snippets) before clicking.
