Giving Credit for Ideas

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A group of fourth graders is working on independent research projects. Today they learned why it's important to make citations and a bibliography:

1) to give credit for other peoples' ideas, and

2) to let let other people "track back" where information came from

This student is teaching his classmates how to write a citation for a nonfiction book.

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