Information Investigators
Jotting down important information and key details.
What is note-taking?
The button you press in Google Classroom to attach a file to an assignment.
What is Add or Create?
Checking information to make sure it is true.
What is verifying?
A question that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.
What is an open-ended question?
These symbols go around words copied directly from a text.
What are quotation marks?
Looking through a text quickly to find a specific fact, name, or date.
What is scanning?
The number of days deleted files and folders stay in Google Drive's Trash.
What is 30 days?
A four-step method that helps you check whether online information is trustworthy.
What is the SIFT method?
A question that can be answered with yes, no, or a short response.
What is a closed-ended question?
Putting a phrase or sentence from a text into your own words while keeping its meaning.
What is paraphrasing?
Organizing facts from most important to least important based on your topic.
What is prioritizing information?
The action you take to change the name of a file or folder in Google Drive.
What is renaming?
Looking at who shared information, when it was shared, and why.
What is investigating the source?
A three-column chart showing what you Know, Want to know, and Learned.
What is a KWL chart?
Taking the most important information from a book or article and explaining it briefly.
What is summarizing?
The central point or most important message of a text.
What is the main idea?
The name you gave your Social Studies assignment about Stone Tools on 10/22/26.
What is 10-22-26_Social Studies_Stone Tools?
A friend shows you a suspicious post with no original source listed. You look for where the claim first came from.
What is tracing claims to their original source?
A question that guides what you want to learn about a topic.
What is a research question?
Deciding which information from a text is useful for answering your research question.
What is identifying relevant information?
Choosing only the facts that help answer your research question.
What is identifying relevant information?
The Google Drive feature that lets you organize related documents in one place.
What is a folder?
You see a surprising claim online. Even though you know the source, you look for other reliable sources to confirm it.
What is finding better coverage?
Changing a broad question like "What are animals?" into a more focused question like "How do penguins survive in Antarctica?"
What is narrowing a research question?
A summary should include these instead of every small detail.
What are the main ideas?