Students weigh three honeybee sources where two agree and one disagrees, pick the correctly formatted book entry (Parker, James. The Ocean Floor. Boston: Seaside Books, 2022.), and name the skill of blending a book and a website as synthesizing. Part B fills in synthesizing, italics for book titles, accurate when sources agree, publisher, and where the works-cited page goes.
Pulling several sources together and citing them cleanly is the move that separates a strung-together report from real fifth-grade research.
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Research & Citing Sources
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. A student reads three sources about honeybees. Source A says bees pollinate 80% of flowering plants. Source B says bees pollinate 75% of crop plants. Source C says bees are not important for farming. What should the student do?
A) Use only Source C because it is different from the others
B) Average the numbers and make up a new statistic
C) Note that Sources A and B mostly agree, and investigate why Source C disagrees
D) Ignore all three sources because the numbers do not match exactly
2. Which bibliography entry is formatted correctly?
A) Parker, James. The Ocean Floor. Boston: Seaside Books, 2022.
B) The Ocean Floor, James Parker, 2022, Boston.
C) James Parker wrote The Ocean Floor in Boston in 2022.
D) www.seasidebooks.com/ocean-floor
3. A student wants to combine information from a book and a website into one paragraph. What is this skill called?
A) Copying because information from two sources is mixed together
B) Synthesizing because the student blends ideas from multiple sources
C) Plagiarizing because the ideas originally belonged to other authors
D) Summarizing because the paragraph is shorter than the original sources
4. When citing a website, which piece of information is needed but is NOT usually required for a book citation?
A) The author's name
B) The title of the article
C) The URL and the date the page was accessed
D) The year it was published
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. Synthesizing means combining ideas from several sources into one clear explanation.
2. In a bibliography, the title of a book is written in italics to set it apart from other information.
3. When two sources agree on a fact, the information is more likely to be accurate.
4. The publisher is the company that printed and distributed a book.
5. A works-cited page and a bibliography both appear at the end of a research report.
Research & Citing Sources
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. A student reads three sources about honeybees. Source A says bees pollinate 80% of flowering plants. Source B says bees pollinate 75% of crop plants. Source C says bees are not important for farming. What should the student do?
A) Use only Source C because it is different from the others
B) Average the numbers and make up a new statistic
C) Note that Sources A and B mostly agree, and investigate why Source C disagrees
D) Ignore all three sources because the numbers do not match exactly
2. Which bibliography entry is formatted correctly?
A) Parker, James. The Ocean Floor. Boston: Seaside Books, 2022.
B) The Ocean Floor, James Parker, 2022, Boston.
C) James Parker wrote The Ocean Floor in Boston in 2022.
D) www.seasidebooks.com/ocean-floor
3. A student wants to combine information from a book and a website into one paragraph. What is this skill called?
A) Copying because information from two sources is mixed together
B) Synthesizing because the student blends ideas from multiple sources
C) Plagiarizing because the ideas originally belonged to other authors
D) Summarizing because the paragraph is shorter than the original sources
4. When citing a website, which piece of information is needed but is NOT usually required for a book citation?
A) The author's name
B) The title of the article
C) The URL and the date the page was accessed
D) The year it was published
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) Synthesizing means combining ideas from several sources into one clear explanation.
2) In a bibliography, the title of a book is written in italics to set it apart from other information.
3) When two sources agree on a fact, the information is more likely to be accurate.
4) The publisher is the company that printed and distributed a book.
5) A works-cited page and a bibliography both appear at the end of a research report.
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