Navigating the Information Tsunami: Engaging Research Projects that Meet the Common Core State Standards, K-5

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At Cherry Lake Publishing, our authors and editors are passionate about giving kids robust, engaging, and challenging materials that will prepare them to flourish in the multimedia Information Age.

Our contributors provide detailed guidance on how teachers can harness students’ natural curiosity to go beyond fact gathering and exceed CCSS expectations. Expert practitioners share projects aligned to CCSS that invite students to think deeply; weigh choices; make, articulate and share decisions.

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) calls on educators to refresh and sharpen their skills in reading, writing, math ... and research!

Experienced teachers of research skills and

strategies share their lessons for involving elementary

students in research projects that stretch far beyond

factual recall.

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Information Explorer: Super Smart Information Strategies

Common Core STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a wholeTo be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.

Information Explorer Junior

Through our Information Explorers and Language Arts Explorers series (and their Junior editions), we don’t just deliver facts. Our print materials and eBooks burst with engaging graphics, appealing layouts, friendly language, and hands-on activities that invite students to be active learners in their three-dimensional, multimedia world. We want children to be information-savvy and digitally-literate, to explore the world around them, and to use print and multimedia tools to share their learning with others.

The Information Explorer series provides readers with the tools they need to FIND, ORGANIZE, and SHARE information clearly and effectively. Activities designed to help readers explore all kinds of information sources are included in each chapter. Readers are encouraged to think critically as they conduct research, collaborate with fellow students, and present their findings in new and interesting ways.

The Information Explorer Junior series provides readers with the tools they need to FIND, ORGANIZE, and SHARE information clearly and effectively. Targeted at an earlier age range than our popular Information Explorer: Super Smart Information Series, this set will help your younger readers become Information Explorers!

Common Core STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a wholeTo be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.

Interest Level 4-8

Reading Level4-5

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Interest Level 3-6

Reading Level4-5

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