Research with OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is an excellent resource that allows students to keep all of their notes easily organized. The days of laboriously writing out snippets of information with proper citation onto little note cards is no longer needed. Students easily create OneNote notebooks with sections and pages in place of the note cards.

The best part of OneNote is that students can capture text and images online and have an immediate citation created for the captured information.

I assisted our second through fourth grade gifted students in using OneNote as they researched information on inventors. The students needed minimal support in bouncing between the Internet and OneNote as they researched. These students were in the gifted program, but I firmly believe this tool is appropriate for all regular second through fourth grade classroom students.

The most valuable implementation lesson I learned was to start out with OneNote prior to any searching and having students create OneNote pages for each topic they intended to research. The students created a page for images, history of inventor, history of invention and interesting facts.