Using Technology to Do Research Worksheet
This Using Technology to Do Research Worksheet gives 2nd grade students four sentences to finish with tool words and four research steps to put in order. An answer key is included.
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Second graders are handed a screen long before anyone teaches them what to do with one, and a using technology to do research worksheet is where that gap gets closed. A child who can already tap and swipe still has to learn the vocabulary of looking things up: that the strip at the top of the screen is a search box, that the words you put in it are your key words, and that a website and a video are two different places the same fact can live. Naming the tools is what turns wandering around a screen into research, because a child cannot follow a step they have no word for.
This 2nd grade research worksheet has two parts and takes about ten minutes. Part one is a word box holding four tool names — keyboard, search box, video and website — and four sentences with a blank in each. Every blank is the same length and every clue points at exactly one word, so a student has to read the sentence rather than measure the line. Part two prints the four steps of a small research job in the wrong order — type your key words, read the page, write down where you found the fact, tell a friend what you learned — and asks the student to number the boxes one to four. The answer key fills in every blank and every box, so it marks in seconds. No brand names appear anywhere on the page, so the sheet works with whatever device your classroom actually has.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 1 four-word tool box, 4 fill-in-the-blank sentences, and a 4-step ordering task
Three things make this using technology to do research worksheet worth printing. First, it teaches the words before the workflow: a student who can say search box and key words can be given an instruction that actually lands. Second, the ordering task makes research a sequence rather than a single action, and the last step — write down where you found your fact — plants the habit of citing a source years before anyone calls it that. Third, nothing on the page depends on a particular device or program, so the sheet still works when the classroom software changes.
Read the four words in the box aloud together and point at each one on a real screen before students pick up a pencil. After the sheet, give the class one small question — how tall is a giraffe, what do owls eat — and walk the four steps together on the board, saying each step number out loud as you do it. Students can then keep a running list of the websites they used, which turns step four into a real habit rather than a line on a worksheet. Pairing students at one device works well here, because saying the key words out loud to a partner is half the skill.
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