01 -overview of big 6 skills
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ResearchingUsing the Big6™ Method
Overview of the Process
What is Big6™?
A process for good research methods
A guide to keep you on track
Useful for your entire life
The process is more important than the product! It’s a skill you can use forever!
Step 1: Task Definition What did your
teacher ask you to find?
What kind of information are you looking for?
What kind of final project are you supposed to present?
Think before you act!
Step 2: Information Seeking
Strategies What are all the possible places you could find the information you need?
What would be the best sources? Pay
attention!
Possible Sources Books Magazines Newspapers Databases Internet Images Videos Recordings Multimedia projects
Which sources are best to use for this assignment?
“Let’s just Google it. Everybody Googles.”
Are you smart enough not to follow the crowd?
Destiny Resources You can find books, Public Lists, and Online Resources. Look in the Resource Lists, check the tab that says
Public Lists, and see the tabs that say Library Materials (books only) and Online Resources (websites that Ms. Ballard gathered for your assignment).
Step 3: Location and Access
You can’t be lazy! You have to get up and go get it!
Go find the sources of information
Look inside the sources for the information using search strategies
Are you going to get up and go
get dinner?
No way. You go!
Don’t forget to look…
In the Table of Contents of a book
In the index In the other extras that a
book may offer (Read the “how to use this book” section.)
Many new books also list websites to continue your learning. Check the end pages of the books to see if you get lucky!
Also, ask the librarian!
She can gather sources in advance when the teacher has given her notice!
She can find information quickly and show you how also!
Step 4: Use of Information Engage Means read,
hear, watch, understand
Extract Means take out
the information you need from the sources you gathered
Don’t just swallow it whole! Break it into
small bites!
Step 5: Synthesis Organize Means putting
your information in a useful order
Present Will you write a
report, give an oral presentation, make a visual aid, use a PowerPoint presentation?
Make it showy!
Step 6: Evaluation Judge the
Result How good was your
project?
Judge the Process
What did you learn from going through these steps?
Stick to the plan, be patient, do the work,
and you get your reward!
by Charlotte Ballard, Librarian
Sources for Big6™ included The Definitive Big6™ Workshop Handbook by Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz