Student Handbook
Welcome to our Student Handbook page! Here, you can find resources to help build strong research and digital literacy skills. This page includes useful videos that explain how to avoid plagiarism, fact-check your work, and cite and reference sources correctly. You can learn to recognize false information, and use smart search techniques. These tools will help you become a confident and responsible researcher.
Links to Helpful Resources
Check out the links below to learn more about building strong research and digital literacy skills.
This short video describes a process for helping choose a strong topic for research, and how to develop your research question so that your research is focussed and meaningful.
This video explains how to generate keywords for an effective online search. It explains how search strings work and gives helpful tips to streamline your research process.
What are boolean operators? They are words that act as commands with your main topic words to focus your search. Watch this video to learn how to use these command words effectively.
Has your teacher asked you to include primary and secondary sources in your research assignment? This video describes the traits of each one, gives examples, and explains when to use them.
Don’t believe everything you read or watch. Fake news and disinformation are serious concerns for Canadians. Watch this video to learn how to spot fake news.
What is plagiarism? How do you avoid it? This video explains the seriousness of plagiarism and details of how to source information.
It is important to give credit to authors and the creators of ideas. This video explains what intellectual property, and copyright are. It describes how to properly document your sources, so that you properly acknowledge the original creators.
Can you tell the difference between what is fact or fake online? CBC Kids has created a game to test your skills.
This document is a useful guide on how to check your facts for accuracy. Fact checking is a key part of digital literacy. This site also provides links to other fact checking agencies and links for staying safe online.