Grade Cluster 5-6 Task # 3

The Grade Cluster & Task #: Grade Cluster 5-6, Task # 3

The Product/Performance: Class Published Research Findings

The Components: Online Research, Database, Web Publishing

The Task:

Students will create a class web site to present their research findings. Each student will build one page for the site.

Students will gather information on a topic centered on a class theme (explorers, weather, inventions) using both the Internet and data collected via email. 

Students will use advanced search techniques to locate information from the Internet about their topics. 

Once a sufficient amount of data is collected, students will enter the data into a existing class database.  Students will use the database to analyze the information.

Once the data has been carefully analyzed, students will produce and publish their individual findings on a class web site.

Rationale:

Students’ sharing their work with others encourages them to do their best and produce meaningful products. The Web allows students to publish their work for the ultimate audience… the world. Collecting data from “experts” will be a challenge but students have a much wider reach using the Internet and email. Analyzing data in a database will allow students to manipulate and make sense of their data. It will allow them to query the information in a way not possible in a non-electronic medium.

IT1 - Basic Operations & Concepts

Not assessed in this task

IT2 - Social, Ethical & Human Issues

Not assessed in this task

IT3 - Productivity Tools

· Identifying components of data base including field/category, record, file.

· Identifying single and multiple record formats.

· Entering data into an existing database

IT4 - Communication

· Describing the components of a web address (e.g. ~, /, . edu, .com, .gov, etc.).

· Creating a web page including text, graphics, tables and internal and external links.

· Sending and receiving an email attachment.

· Including the text of the original message in their reply (using quote).

· Forwarding mail.

· Using cc: to copy a message to another individual.

· Using reply options (e.g., reply sender, reply group, reply conference)

IT5 - Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Not assessed in this task

Glossary:

Database - A collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data. You can think of a database as an electronic filing system.

Field/Category: a label for a single piece of information. For example. “First Name”, or “Last Name” , or “Phone Number”. Each of these is a field/category.

Record: A group of fields with some commonality. For example: the three fields from above in one form would constitute a record.

Single format: A view that allows only a single record to be viewed.

Multiple format: A view that allows more than one record to be viewed. For example: A list view or table view would show multiple records.

File: A collection of multiple records.

Resources:

Database -

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/database.html

http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio/db2.html

Database Tutorial –

http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_databases.htm