Lesson 3

1. What is a Rock?
Lesson 3 - A Rock is Lively
In this lesson, students will review the research process (presearch, research).
Students will also discuss the importance of using more than one nonfiction
resource to answer a research question. Students will examine the book, A Rock
is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston before reading and make a prediction if this
resource is appropriate for research and answering the research question: What
is a Rock? Students will review the importance of note taking to remember what
is learned from a resource. After listening to the book, A Rock is Lively, students
will take one of the “notes” I created from the book and create two new pages in
Book Creator. Students will type the fact on the cover page of a new landscape
book in Book Creator and then go to Britannica Image Quest and search for
images related to the “note” they chose. Students will copy the images in
Britannica Image Quest and then paste the images to page 2 in Book Creator.
After students complete both pages, they will see me to review how to airdrop the
pages to my Ipad, so I can create a class book about what we learned about
rocks and minerals from the resource A Rock is Lively.

2. Welcome to the library

3. http://arizonaexperience.org/remember/featured-exhibittucson-gem-and-mineral-society

4. Last week, we used Brainpop
to find out the answer to our
research question.

5. Do you think we learned all
there is to learn about rocks
from the BrainPop video?

6. When you are researching,
you should always use more
than one resource to learn
the answer to your research
question.

7. Research Question:
What is a rock?

8. What do you do when you
want to know the answer to
a question?

9. Research

10. What is the 1st step of the resource
process?

11. Step 1: Presearch
Think about or determine a
research question.
Think about what you already
know about the topic.
What is a rock?
Topic

12. Think about what
resources you can use to
answer the
research question.

13. magazines
Digital
resources
books
places
DVDs/TV

14. Now you are ready to begin
Step 2 of the
research process…………

15. Research

16. What is a rock?
During Step 2 of the research process,
you use resources to find the answer to
your research question.

17. Did we learn the
answer to our
research question
using this
resource?

18. Did we learn the answer to our
research question using this
resource?

19. Do all books and websites work for research?

20. When you are researching, do you use
fiction or nonfiction resources?

21. What is a rock?

22. We are going to read
a book with the
purpose of learning
more about our
research question.

23. Just by flipping
through the
pages, do you
think this book
will work for
research?

24. How are we going to
remember what we
learned about
rocks/minerals from
this resource?

25. Why are notes
important for
the research
process?

26. When you are using a
resource, you take notes
so you can remember
what you learned and use
it for the create phase of
the research process.

27. I have read the book and
already have taken
notes about what I
learned about rocks and
minerals from this
resource so....
During the book, you can listen and learn and not
worry about recording all the facts you learn.

28. Dianna Hutts Aston
Sylvia
Long
2012
Arizona

29. Made
from rock

30. Digital Citizenship
A good digital citizen is someone who is safe, responsible
and respectful when they use digital tools.

31. We will be making a
class book about the
facts we learned from
Brainpop. You will
create two pages. One
page has the fact and
the other page has
images that support
the fact.

34. Write your
fact on
this page
Melissa, 10
Then….

35. Paste
pictures
from
that
support
your fact.Melissa, 10

36. Use your fact to find a word to look up
in Encyclopedia Britannica.

37. Accessing Britannica Image Quest
1
2
3
4
Word
from
sheet

39. After you complete
your two pages,
sign your name on
this sheet . I’ll
show you how to
airdrop your pages
to my IPad.
I will then put the pages together to make a class book.

40. Todays Instructions:
1. Complete your rock pages
and airdrop the pages to me.
2. Browse and checkout
research