Childhood
Under Threat| This
Week in Core |
Africa Page | Earth Lights | News Sources | Your Report |
| Getting Started | Researching | Taking Notes | Writing | Citing Sources |
Getting Started |
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| Essential Question: How would my life be different if I grew up in a poverty-stricken country? | |
| Choose or design a
question to
investigate. |
When
you looked at "Earthlights," what did you wonder about the places where
few lights are on? Now is your opportunity to find some
answers. Possible Research Questions:
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Researching |
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| Source | Information you might find there |
| Earthlights | Photo of Earth at night from
NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Where are the lights on? Why? |
| UNICEF | The
United Nations Children's Fund: Facts about poverty,
education, war, and
health from the United Nations. The
State of the World's Children 2009: Maternal & Newborn Health
The State of the World's Children 2008: Child Survival The State of the World's Children 2007: Gender Inequality The State of the World's Children 2005:
Childhood Under Threat of Poverty & Disease
The State of the World's Children 2004: Girls' Education The State of the World's Children 2000: Rich & Poor, & Wartorn Environments The
State of the World's Children 1996: Children in War
Information
by country (useful once you've decided which countries are
your focus)Follow the links to
statistics
and maps
on specific topics.
Definitions of terms used in statistics: Make sure you know what they are talking about! Create a customized statisical table (xls). Enter your choices and see an easy-to-read table. Voices of Youth: UNICEF for young readers Why does education matter? Try a UNICEF Quiz for kids. Try the 2008 Quiz. |
| WHO | The
World Health Organization, the health branch of the United Nations |
| Worldmapper | 700 world maps,
where proportions are re-sized according to variables such as wealth,
education, etc. For example, click here to see infant mortality. |
| World Factbook | Quick facts about countries, frequently updated |
| World Village | If the World Were a Village of 100 People ... a few interesting ratios |
| Save the Children | Creating lasting change for
children in need |
| ILO | International
Labor Organization's facts about child labor laws and practice |
| Rugmark |
Organization
working to end child labor Rescues: Success stories about children rescued from the carpet industry |
| CIDA | Canadian International
Development Agency |
| Selected Sources about Children in War | A 14-year old soldier: Alhaji tells about
his experience. Landmines: The danger continues for children after the battle is over. Children and Conflict: 6-minute video from the United Nations, narrated by Ishmael Beah, former child soldier United Nations, "Children and Armed Conflict: Children "are the least responsible for conflict, yet suffer disproportionately from its excesses." The State of the World's Children 1996: Children in War: Report from UNICEF No Guns Please, We Are Children: brochure from UNICEF Child Soldiers, reported by the International Labor Organization Our World at War: 10 videos from the International Red Cross about children affected by war My Baby's Name Means Suffering: Red Cross interviews refugees from war War-Affected Children: Facts and ideas from Free the Children The Child Soldiers: Time Magazine, November 4, 2001. I also have a copy of a 1990 article. "Tell the World What Is Happening to Us": Voices from the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers |
Taking Notes |
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| Noodle Tools | Taking
notes is
an integral part of processing the raw facts and making them your own
knowledge. This
online tool will help you to take notes, organize them, and cite your
sources without plagiarizing. Your paraphrasing and questions
will help you draft your report. You'll find some sample digital
notecards in our file at Noodle Tools. Your username is the same as tux: your graduation year and your first and last name as it appears on school registration. With your username and password, you can access your digital note cards and bibliography from any computer, even outside of school. I require you to use Noodle Tools, so I can monitor and comment on your note-taking progress. |
| Think about your progress | In
addition to the paraphrasing activity on your digital note cards, the
"My Ideas" portion can help you think about your progress:
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Citing sources: Who says so? |
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| Plagiarizing | According
to <www.plagiarism.org>, plagiarism
includes:
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| What is a citation? | Where did
you find your
information? How can your reader find out more? At
the end, list your sources as Works Cited. All your
parenthetical references must be included in this list. Use the online bibliography builder at Noodle Tools. You fill in the info and they do the formatting!
Examples:
Web Page:"The State of the World's Children 2005." UNICEF. 2005. Web. 2 Jan. 2009. <http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/childhood.html>.
Book:Parker, David
L. Stolen
Dreams: Portraits of Working Children. New York: Lerner
Publications, 1997.
Photograph: Dreams, Angela. Water is life. N.d. Flickr, n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2010. <http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/281123380_1598c90b08.jpg>. Video:UN. Children and Conflict in a Changing World. UN Media, 2006. Children and Armed Conflict. Web. 6 Feb. 2010. <http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/media.html>. |
| Citing sources |
What is a parenthetical reference?This is a reference in parentheses ( ) at the end of a sentence, within the body of your paper. It identifies one of the sources listed in your Works Cited list. It shows your readers exactly what you got from the source, and specifically where they can find it. You need to write a parenthetical, or "in-text" reference, whether you
Examples:
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| Paraphrasing |
Essential: When you
paraphrase, use your own words.
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| Quoting |
Use direct
quotes only when you want to keep
particularly
expressive or unique words. If you quote phrases or
sentences
from a text, you must put them in quotation marks and acknowledge the
source:
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Organizing Your Research Report | |
| Purpose | Investigate
a question. Make appropriate generalizations and conclusions
based
on facts. However, your goal is to describe an issue, not to solve it. |
| Organizing your report | Use the helpful Notecard Tabletop on Noodle Tools to organize your outline.
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