First Steps to Upgrade Presearch From Topic to Focus Make such a page, with your own fun graphics, and help teachers recognize that their assignments can provide the best incentive for students to apply the information they gather, instead of just copying it. Relating this to the current type of MEA questions and to Bloom's Taxonomy helps to encourage teacher choice of products hard to plagiarize. I also give teachers samples of quality thinking questions, often geared specifically to their curriculum area. Additionally helpful to the teachers may be a reminder that even evaluation level questions usually need knowledge level facts from the library. The final product may move from knowledge levels of information through comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and into evaluation using the gathered information.
Weather includes rain, snow and changes of temperature.
This is a knowledge level sample for the novice teacher. It assumes that the students and teacher have had an overview of their library's resources. A fast overview exercise is the typical scavenger hunt done with a map of your library and a matching list of all possible resources. The second step of the presearch is recognizing prior knowledge, usually done as classroom work. The students write what they know about their topic.