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Title:
Write the title of the subject you researched across the top of the poster. List the names of each member of your group.
Graphic Organizer:
As a group, brainstorm the list of the steps you took to do the following:
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-log on to the Internet
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-get to your search engine
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-find information related to your topic, including everything that needs to be typed, the number of clicks needed to open documents, and the words you need to click on to access information.
Create a graphic organizer that presents this information so someone who has never used the Internet will be able to find his or her way to you topic.
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Attach the graphic organizer to your poster.
Terminology Chart:
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As a group, define the following terms in your own words: Internet, World Wide Web, URL, Web page, Hyperlink, Query, Query box, Hit, Modem, Scroll bar, and Search engine (use examples). Attach the terminology chart to your poster.
Search Engine Web Page:
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Print out a copy of a search engine or Web page from the Internet.
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Highlight any words that are also on your terminology chart.
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Explain what each of these buttons do: Back, Forward, Reload, Search, and Stop. Attach this page to your poster.
Safety Rules:
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Describe four rules for safety on the Internet.
Interesting Information:
Read through the information you printed out from the topic you researched. Each person should choose one interesting fact and write a detailed paragraph about it and then draw a picture to accompany the paragraph. Glue each paragraph to and drawing to a sheet of construction paper and attach to the poster.
Interactive Reader-Writer Notebooks
Virtually all of our students read. Oh, they may not read of the type found in schools, libraries, and bookstores, but they read nonetheless. Many of our learners are reading sweatshirts, bottle and can labels, cereal boxes, bus schedules, telephone books, team sportswear, television and movie listings, and a multitude of product warnings, instructions, and labels.
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When a student reads, there is a transaction that takes place inside his mind, an exchange of messages and images that are received and deposited to the existing bank of information. A successful reader decodes the message in print, interprets it by measuring it against an existing knowledge base, and evaluates the message according to a set of values he brought to the process.
Interactive notebooks are a tool for both reading and writing in the science fiction genre. Accomplished readers both read and write, and recognize each as a part of the unified whole, entitled literacy. This type of notebook is best when presented by the teacher first, perhaps by an example that was made using another science fiction short story as its base. For the example following, I will use the short story "Flourish Your Heart in This World" by Felicia Ackerman, which can be found in the book, Clones and Clones, edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Call R. Sunstein.