This resource is a google slide created to help students begin research for an animal report. This will help them use the explora piece to Utah's Online Library  

This lesson is part of a larger research unit, students have their source material and will highlight keywords and phrases using the graphic organizer from Step Up to Writing and build a paragraph on animal contributions to their environment.

This lesson is part of a larger research unit, students have their source material and will highlight keywords and phrases using the graphic organizer from Step Up to Writing and build a paragraph on animal contributions to their environment.

Video created through Adobe Spark introducing third graders to Genius Hour.

Genius Hour Elevator Pitch © 2019 by A. Nielson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This unit walks students through the research process from pre-writing to publishing using cars as the topic, but it could be adapted for any basic research subject. The final project allows them to publish to the world creating an Adobe Express web page.Diagram of an Internal Combustion Piston Engine, By User:Wapcaplet - Own work, made with Blender, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=182044A modern assembly-line, By Marek Slusarczyk, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116381370

Lesson 1:Choose Animal research topicIntroduce World Book OnlineLesson 2Use Utah's Online Library to research animalLesson 3Introduce creating presentation in KeynoteLesson 4Create presentaton in KeynoteLesson 5Share presentations Thumbnail Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

This resource will help your students to practice using the Utah's Online Library. This will help them to become familiar with features available to them, and practice reasearching.