December Holidays Trivia Race Video Lesson and Worksheets

Happy December! Get your research skills lessons and projects off to a great start with this engaging 3 page/slide activity!

 This is a very flexible activity that can be used in several ways.

 You can use this as a stand alone research worksheet done as an individual classwork assignment.

1. You can complete this in partners or teams competing for bragging rights or prizes which you provide if you choose.
2. You can even make it a true trivia contest and have your students complete this without the use of internet resources to see what they really know about Thanksgiving! Download these free homework passes as prizes.

This will allow students to gain practice in several library and research skills:

• Pulling information from nonfiction text
• Gathering information
• Answering inquiry based questions
• Formulating their own questions
• Navigating the features of an online encyclopedia
• Summarizing and paraphrasing information
• Citing sources
• Digital Citizenship

This resource is designed to work with Britannica School© but you can use it with any online database or encyclopedia your school or district subscribes to.

First, review the features of your online database/encyclopedia.  The esson vocabulary for databases is in the attached lesson plan. 

I let my students copy and paste from the resource when answering the questions.  They can paraphrase or use direct quotes using quotation marks in the summary at the end.  Most databases have a built in citation generator, so it’s easy for them to get in the habit of citing their sources.  I chose engaging topics that my students really loved learning more about. An answer key is also included.

This resource is editable and you can customize it to suit your needs. However, please do not remove my copyright.   Included in the zip file is a PDF, PPT, and printer friendly versions in English, Arabic and Spanish so that you can print or upload it to your learning management system as an assignment. 

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