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Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Assessing the Credibility of Online Sources
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides information on online sources. This article explains how to assess the value of online sources based on authorship, publisher, date of publication, depth of material, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Questions: A Focus for Planning, Researching, and Writing
This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Research Questions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores the steps of the research process - selecting an appropriate research topic, and delving more into the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Hoax/no Hoax? Online Comprehension and Evaluation Strategies
Learners use research-based comprehension strategies to read and evaluate websites, and practice analysis by comparing hoax and real websites and by identifying false or misleading information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
Other
Information Literacy Activities
These worksheets cover many aspects of the research process, as well as censorship, web page evaluation and boolean operators.