Plagiarism
Task 2: Go to the Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism and read it carefully with your group. Your group will be given an article or passage to read and summarize. Use the Note Taking, Citing Sources, and Writing the Paper sections a guides for this activity. If the article is digital, you may want to use this grid or note card format to copy and paste text, cite sources, and make notes as you go.
Article for groups 1 and 2 is: Group Projects for School http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/group_projects.html
Article for groups 3 and 4 is: How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/clique.html
Use the sites below to learn more about plagiarism.
Links:
What is plagiarism?
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html
Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/TM/curr390_guide.shtml
United Stated Copyright and Patent Office - Kids Stop Piracy
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/kidantipiracy.htm
Art Rights
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001570/
Read some of the Amazon.com reviews of the book "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A
Life: A Novel."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316059889/ref=cm_cd_tb_rt/102-3557291-4828106?ie=UTF8&cdForum=FxRQB93ZKVFM8T&s=generic&cdItems=10
Turn It In
http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html
Kids take round one in plagiarism fight
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6674