Announcement: Microsoft Launches Free Digital Citizenship and Creative Content Curriculum

Posted on February 25th, 2010 in Announcements by Sue Wurster

Microsoft Corporation uses contemporary examples and an interactive curriculum to raise student awareness and encourage understanding of the rights connected with creative content.

 

Big6 Message Pens

Posted on February 16th, 2010 in Big6 Pens, Store by Sue Wurster

Big6 pens keep Big6™ Information at your students’ fingertips! See each Big6 stage through a small window on the side of each pen. With every click, the message tube rotates to reveal each step in the Big6 process.

Big6™ Message Pen
• Big6 steps are listed on a rotating tube – see the next Big6 step with each click
• Comfortable wide-profile design
• Soft, contoured rubber grip
• Black ink
• Pen barrel is blue and white

Pricing:

School Price: $2.00 each/min. order #50 items +SH

Item #: B6PEN

Big6 Pens

 

Big6 and Super3 Blackline Masters

Posted on February 16th, 2010 in Big6 Kits, Blackline Masters by Sue Wurster

Big6™ Basics: Building Research Skills Using Technology and the Big6

The latest Big6 research skills kit and the first Big6 program created for direct use by students
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This unique research skills kit has been designed exclusively to help students learn the Big6 process and apply it in the context of existing classroom assignments. The featured text, Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Approach, gives practical examples of the Big6 approach to using information. Reproducible worksheets can be used with existing lessons, projects, papers, and homework to teach students specific skills to help them tackle assignments in any subject. Students will learn an effective, systematic approach to solving problems, making decisions, and completing any research task.

Each kit features 10 paperback copies of Internet Power Research Using the Big6 Approach, 34 reproducible worksheets, a copy of The Definitive Big6™ Workshop Handbook, a Big6 Poster and Big6 poster cards. It’s everything you need to help students improve their technology and information literacy and expand their research capabilities.

Grade Level: Gr 4-6
School Price: $189.95 + S/H
Item #: B6BLMKIT-P


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If you’re looking for a great way to get up to speed, take a look at our collections of blackline masters. You’ll be able to integrate the Super3 or the Big6 right away! Originally published by World Almanac Education, these Blackline Masters are now available through Big6!

Super3™ Discovery Projects Blackline Masters

The Super3™ Discovery Projects blackline masters are designed for young learners in preschool through third grade. The eight projects include:

  • Animal Project
  • Fiction Book Report
  • Nonfiction Book Report
  • Current Events Project
  • Place (Geography) Project
  • How To Project
  • Five Senses Project
  • Science Research Project

Each Discovery Project contains an instructor’s guide with the following components: Objective/Purpose; Context for Use; Ideas for Teaching and Learning; Extension Activities; and a Project Overview that outlines each step of the Super3 process as it relates to the given project.

Copyright: 2006

Grade Level: Gr K-3

Pages: 24

School Price: $29.95 +SH

Item #: S3BLM-P


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Big6™ Basics Blackline Masters

By integrating Big6™ Basics Blackline Masters into existing lessons, students will learn specific skills to help them tackle assignments in any subject. Each of the more than 30 worksheets thoroughly examines a different stage or sub-stage of the Big6 method. Students will learn an effective, systematic approach that will help them solve problems, make decisions, and complete any research task. Includes a teacher guide.

Copyright: 2005

Grade Level: Gr 4-6

Pages: 34

School Price: $29.95 +SH

Item #: B6BLM-P



For more information or help with our products, please contact us at: info@Big6.com
 

Big6 and Super3 Author Webinars in February and March

Posted on February 16th, 2010 in Announcements, How to Get Started, News and Views, Webinars by Sue Wurster

Three interactive webinars introduce you to Big6 and Super3 skills. Big6 Basics, Thursday, February 25; Super3 Discovery Learning Friday, February 26; and Use Big6 to Achieve Educational Standards, Tuesday, March 23. To Register, buy online or Fax us your school’s Purchase Order. Click the title to learn more.

 

Big6 is on Twitter

Posted on February 5th, 2010 in News and Views by Sue Wurster

Big6 is on Twitter. Link to our feed for Big6 headlines as they happen:  http://twitter.com/thebig6

 

INFOLIT EXPERTS MERGE K-12 TECHNOLOGY LITERACY AND INFORMATION LITERACY INTO ONE CURRICULUM

Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) Curriculum blends Big6 Skills with ISTE-NETS for a seamless approach for information-technology literacy. Click title for link to curriculum.

 

Announcing: Big6 Academy August 1 and 2, 2010 – Register Now

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 in How to Get Started, News and Views, Workshops by Sue Wurster

Eisenberg and Berkowitz present this year’s August institute to train you to teach information and technology skills in the context of your assignments and curriculum. Click the title for details and more information, or email info@big6.com with any questions. Group discounts available.