Citing in a Zip

Students will:

• Be able to use Zoterbib to cite sources and embed them into their work.

Vocabulary Words:

These words have been taken from Common Sense Media.

1. Credit: Credit is a public acknowledgment or praise given to a person.
    
2. Source: A source is a book, statement, person, etc., supplying information.  
    
3. Bibliography: A bibliography is a document showing all the sources used to research information. 
    
4. Citation: A citation is key information about a source used for a report or other research project, including its author, title, publisher, and date of publication.
    
5. Respect: a way of showing that you admire and value something.
    
6. Plagiarism: using some or all of somebody’s work or idea, and saying that you created it.

Note: A Quizlet quiz has been created for the vocabulary.

To prepare for this lesson:

• Create an account at Zoterobib. 

• Watch the video on how to use Zoterbib.

• Check out the Quizlet quiz on vocabulary to teach the students.   

• Watch the video on citing sources.

• Decide what you want students to cite. The students could cite their sources from work they are currently working on in the classroom. 

• If this is an introduction to this, give the students a book title, a magazine title, a photo and an online article. Some samples you can use are below.

  • Online source

  • Book Source: Who Was Henry Ford? Michael Burgan

  • Photo Source

  • Magazine: Time For Kids: Henry Ford by Editors of TIME For Kids, Dina El Nabli

Note:

• If you plan to use these items, you will need to put links/ articles in a place where students can find them. (Symbaloo or Diigo) Another idea is to have students curate their own sources.
• Other great lessons on plagiarism and copyright can be found on Commonsense. 

See Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students.net site in the Teacher Resources. 

Directions for this activity:

1. Say to students, “Today we are going to talk about the importance of giving authors credit for their work.”

   • Define credit for the kids.

   • We can do this by citing sources we use.

   • Define citing sources.

   • Usually, when you finish finding information, we put all of our sources in a bibliography. Define bibliography.

   • Define plagiarism and why it is important to do your own work.

2. Students will watch the video on citing sources.

3. The teacher will explain how students at one point needed to type all of this information out, however, there are easier ways now to create bibliographies.

4. Students will watch the video on how to use Zoterobib. 

5. The teacher will demonstrate to students how to copy and paste their citations into a document or into their work.

Note: Here are shortcuts to teach the students.

iOS  Shortcuts: COPY: Command+C PASTE: Command+V

PC Shortcuts: COPY: Control+C  PASTE: Control+V

Different options for assessing the students:

• Observations
• Check for understanding
• Exit ticket
• Assess student’s final product