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Mrs. Doyle from Mt. Pleasant, MI is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching My Students to Research The Old Fashioned Way

Help me give my students highlighters and matching pens to learn how to properly do research.

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My Students

I teach in a k-12 rural school district. Our school is well-known for having high academic standards and over half of our students travel from out of district.

My students are not only hard working and high achieving, they are kind and considerate.

One of our goals as a staff is that our students be college ready, and a large part of that is creating academic writers.

My Project

I have been teaching Research Writing for approximately fifteen years. In the first few years, I avoided the use of note cards because it was "old fashioned" and nobody really did that anymore, right? I quickly learned the papers were not good, and a lot of them were right on the edge of being plagiarized. The students were not reading the research. For years, they had been told not to print the articles in an effort to save paper, which created issues with them not fully reading or understanding the information. This also created the issue of cutting and pasting the information they found "important" from various articles into a word document for later use, but they never remembered to cite the sources of the original articles nor did they remember where the articles' words ended, and their words began. As you can imagine, as a teacher trying to teach the concept of research while teaching the dangers of plagiarism, this "method" of research was a recipe for disaster. By the third year, I decided, I didn't care if notecards were old-fashioned, I was bringing them back.

I teach research through the use of colored pens, highlighters, and extra-large notecards.

I require my students to print out the articles and highlight the important information. As they highlight the information, they take notes from the article on extra-large notecards with a pen that corresponds to the highlighter. Every step of the process is very organized and meticulous. I teach my students that they must immerse themselves into the research to understand the research. By putting the extra time and effort into the process, they really do take more pride in what they are doing, and they care about what they are reading.

Mrs. Doyle Beal City Middle High School Grades 9-12

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Mt. Pleasant, MI View local requests

More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

30 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sharpie 28101 Accent Retractable Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Assorted Colors, 8-Count $8.42 30 $252.60
Paper Mate InkJoy 100RT Retractable Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point, Assorted, 20 Pack (1951396) $7.55 15 $113.25

Materials cost

$365.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$401.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.82

Total project goal

$472.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $472.16

8 Donors

-$336.82

Donations toward project cost

-$289.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.52

match offer

-$131.81

Match offer toward project cost

-$112.04

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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