It doesn’t cost any money to use the Big6. Here are some free ideas to get you started. If you do want official Big6 or Super3 training, we offer plenty of opportunities to learn through workshops and various resources.

Just-released Educause Quarterly opinion piece by Dr. Sharon Weiner of Purdue,  addresses the implications of Project Information Literacy’s latest research findings.

The article, entitled, “Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency ” (article link) argues information literacy doesn’t belong to any single discipline, but instead belongs to all of them and should become a habit of the mind from kindergarten through college education.

How does a teacher incorporate the Super3 into the instructional process throughout a third grade curriculum? Read this report to find out how.

High quality professional development designed for library media specialists, teachers and administrators.  Learn the Big6 Skills Approach and teaching strategies in all content areas and grade levels.  For a more information visit our Workshop Overview page.

Melissa Thibault, Executive Director for LEARN North Carolina, shares her thoughts and tools for student reflection and self-evaluation. See her tips and tools!

The World Bank Institute, educational arm of the World Bank, will launch on March 3rd a free online social networking game to encourage students and mentors, age 13 and up to solve social problems like disease, famine, poverty. Presented in graphic novel format, this a new site will offer problem-solving scenarios — just perfect for Big6 information-problem solving skills! Take a look and consider using this with middle and high school students this semester or next! Mentors are invited to participate too.

Jennifer Holt shares her amazing presentation that points to many practical websites to help students manage information and handle assignments. Holt organizes and presents the various websites in context of each Big6 Skill. This narrated resource is an easy to follow guided tour for teachers and high school students who want to improve their research and problem-solving skills. Well worth the time to watch.

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

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

50 pens $100.00 150 pens $300.00

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

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

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

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