Unit

3 Concept Map
6th Grade ELA

Unit/Topic:
-Effective research requires the use of varied resources to gain or expand knowledge.
-Knowledge gained from research can promote lifelong learning.

Unit Essential Questions:

-How do we use information gained through research to expand knowledge?
-How can our knowledge and use of the research process promote lifelong learning?

Concepts: Key Vocabulary

Students will know: Research Question: research
Research Question: The development of an effective research question
question focuses your collection of evidence. Keywords: keywords
Keywords: The use of specific, appropriate keywords will Appropriate Resources: bias,
help you answer your research question. currency, accuracy, relevancy
Resource Acquisition: Good researchers know which Evaluating Resources: credibility
resource (print and/or digital) to use to help answer their Citations: bibliography, MLA
questions and use helpful searching strategies. format
Evaluating Resources: Good researchers will check for bias, Summarize information:
accuracy, currency, relevancy, and credibility of sources used paraphrase, direct quotation
in their research. Informative piece: main idea,
Citations: Good researchers will give credit to the sources details
they use by using the correct bibliographic format. Argumentative piece: claim,
Summarize information: Good researchers will paraphrase or evidence
directly quote their information to eliminate plagiarism.
Informative piece: Good writers will incorporate their
gathered evidence in their work to educate their audience.
Argumentative piece: Good writers will use their gathered
evidence to support/defend their claim to their audience.
Students will be able to:
-Formulate a question(s) to guide research that will lead to
greater understanding of your topic.
-Determine appropriate keywords that will help you answer
your question. Use synonyms and words found in the
database to guide you.
-Apply good searching techniques (e.g. Boolean operators, *See back for Formative and
truncation, advanced search) Summative assessments.
-Determine the appropriate resource(s) - print and/or digital -
to use for research.
-Evaluate a source’s information and credibility by looking at
bias, currency, accuracy and relevancy.
-Properly cite sources in the correct bibliographic format.
-Summarize information using direct quotations and
paraphrasing.
-Construct a written piece that shares gathered
information/evidence with your audience.
-Construct a written piece that develops an argument using
evidence gathered to support your position.

 Formative Assessments: Summative Assessments:
RESEARCH QUESTION
Students will identify effective research
questions and modify when needed.
KEY WORDS
Students will be given research questions, and
they will pull out possible key words; list
synonyms.
RESOURCES
Students will be given topics, and they will have
to decide where they would look for that
information: Google, database, book. Why?
INFORMATION
Using 2 articles, students will find 2 facts to
paraphrase and 2 facts to directly quote.
WRITTEN PIECE
Students will write a paragraph that includes an
opinion statement, two paraphrased facts and
one direct quote, and a conclusion sentence.
CITATION
Given 3 sources, students will create a final
bibliography. (alphabetical, Times New Roman,
size 12, hanging indent, double spaced, heading) (alphabetical, Times New Roman, size 12,
RESEARCH QUESTION/KEY WORDS
Students will create a research question and pull
out the key words.
RESOURCES/INFORMATION
-Students will locate a book, find facts to answer
their question, and create a working
bibliography.
-Students will locate two articles in a database,
find facts to answer their question, and create a
working bibliography.
WRITTEN PIECE
Students will write a final written piece that
must include an introduction, 3 body paragraphs,
and a conclusion paragraph. (3 pages)
CITATION
Students will create a final bibliography
following MLA format (1 book, 2 articles).
hanging indent, double spaced, heading)
PRESENTATION
Using information from their written product,
students will create a multimedia presentation.