Taking Notefacts

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Taking Notefacts

• Using the Independent Investigation Method
• IIM is a research method developed by Cindy
  Nottage and Virginia Morse.
• This lesson was developed to be used by the
  students of Poteet Intermediate.
• For more information about IIM please visit their
  website at www.iimresearch.com

Use the arrows to navigate the presentation
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Resource Numbering

• Assign each source its own number.
• Write the sources number on the large magnifying
  glass at the top of the notefact page and on each
  of the small magnifying glasses.
• Each page of notefacts from the SAME source has
  the SAME number.

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Bibliographic Information

• Record the needed bibliographic information for
  all of your sources on the top of the notefact
  pages.
• Refer to the working bibliography Works cited
  pages given to help you determine what
  information is needed for each source

Author name Publication Title Publisher Date
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Writing Notefacts

• Use your own words
• Short but makes sense
• Related to the question you are researching
• Written between the dotted lines (you will cut
  them apart later)
• Page number written next to each fact

Note fact pg 23
Note fact number 2 pg 78
Note fact number 3 pg 100
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Example
WICHITA INDIANS. The Wichita band of Indians was
one of several bands that composed the Wichita
confederacy. The name Wichita is first found in
the early seventeenth century in historical
records of French traders, who used the word
Ousitas to identify one band of Indians who lived
near the Arkansas River in present Oklahoma. In
the nineteenth century the name came to be used
to refer to several confederated bands who
recognized a common progenitor and had similar
traditions and culture. The Wichita called
themselves Kitikiti'sh, meaning "raccoon eyes,"
because the designs of tattoos around the men's
eyes resembled the eyes of the raccoon. In
central Kansas in 1541 the Coronado expeditionqv
visited Indians whom Coronado called Quiviras and
who have been identified by archeological and
historical studies as Wichitas. By 1719 these
people had moved south to Oklahoma and were
called Ousitas by the French trader Jean Baptiste
Bénard de La Harpe.qv From the 1750s to 1810 one
band of the Wichita Indians was on the Red River
north of the site of present Nocona, Texas. The
Wichitas, during this period, were prominent
middlemen in the trade between the Comanches on
the plains and Louisiana merchants and were at
the zenith of their power and prestige. Warriors
of the band accompanied the Comanches in the
attack on the Spanish Santa Cruz de San Sabá
Mission in 1758, and the Red River villages
withstood a retaliatory strike by the Spanish in
1759. In 1772 Athanase de Mézières,qv commandant
of the Spanish post at Natchitoches, Louisiana,
visited a band of Quedsitas on the upper Brazos
River in 1784 Texas Governor Domingo Cabello y
Roblesqv reported Guachita depredations in the
San Antonio area and periodically, beginning in
1787, Guichitas or Huichitas regularly visited
San Antonio. The America agent at Natchitoches in
1805 identified one of the Red River villages as
the Wicheta.
Wichita Indians
Earl H. Elam
February 24, 2007
June 6, 2001
The handbook of Texas Online
http//www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/article
s/WW/bmw3.html
Kitkitish-name wichita called themselves Pg.
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Kitkitish means racoon eyes pg.1
Men wore tattoos around their eyes that looked
like racoon eyes. Pg. 1
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Practice 1

• Print out the next two slides (File-print-slides
  7-8)
• Fill out the Note fact portion
• Highlight where you took your facts
• Turn in to Mrs. Tappan
• We will do another practice together as a group.
  We will address direct quotes at this time.
• After I approve your notefacts you will be able
  to start your research.

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Practice 1
The sun is about 26,000 light-years from the
center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about
80,000 to 120,000 light-years across (and less
than 7,000 light-years thick). We are located on
on one of its spiral arms, out towards the edge.
It takes the sun (and our solar system) roughly
200-250 million years to orbit once around the
Milky Way. In this orbit, we (and the rest of the
Solar System) are traveling at a velocity of
about 155 miles/sec (250 km/sec). To reach the
center of the Milky Way Galaxy starting from the
Earth, aim toward the constellation Sagittarius.
If you were in a spacecraft, during the trip you
would pass the stars in Sagittarius one by one
(and many other stars!). Since we're inside the
Milky Way Galaxy and we've never sent a
spacecraft outside our Galaxy, we have no
photographs of the Milky Way Galaxy. Radio
telescope data does, however, let us know a lot
about it. The arms of the Milky Way are named
for the constellations that are seen in those
directions. The major arms of the Milky Way
galaxy are the Perseus Arm, Sagittarius Arm,
Centaurus Arm, and Cygnus Arm our Solar System
is in a minor arm called the Orion Spur. The
central hub (or central bulge) contains old stars
and at least one black hole younger stars are in
the arms, along with dust and gas that form new
stars. The great rift is a series of dark,
obscuring dust clouds in the Milky Way. These
clouds stretch from the constellation Sagittarius
to the constellation Cygnus. The Milky way
Galaxy is just one galaxy in a group of galaxies
called the Local Group. Within the Local Group,
the Milky Way Galaxy is moving about 300 km/sec
(towards the constellation Virgo). The Milky Way
Galaxy is moving in concert with the other
galaxies in the Local Group (the Local Group is
defined as those nearby galaxies that are moving
in concert with each other, independent of the
"Hubble flow" expansion). Harlow Shapley
(November 2, 1885- October 20, 1972), an American
astronomer, was the first person to estimate the
size of the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as our
position in the galaxy (about 1918).
WWW.enchantedlearning.com Our Solar System
Location in the Milky Way Galaxy Author not
known. Downloaded Feb. 24, 2007
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Practice 2
The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George
Crum. Crum was a Native American/African American
chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga
Springs, New York, USA. French fries were popular
at the restaurant and one day a diner complained
that the fries were too thick. Although Crum made
a thinner batch, the customer was sill
unsatisfied. Crum finally made fries that were
too thin to eat with a fork, hoping to annoy the
extremely fussy customer. The customer,
surprisingly enough, was happy - and potato chips
were invented! Crum's chips were originally
called Saratoga Chips and potato crunches. They
were soon packaged and sold in New England - Crum
later opened his own restaurant. William
Tappendon manufactured and marketed the chips in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895. In the 1920s, the
salesman Herman Lay sold potato chips to the
southern USA (selling the chips from the trunk of
his car). In 1926, Laura Scudder (who owned a
potato chip factory in Monterey Park, California)
invented a wax paper potato chip bag to keep the
chips fresh and crunchy - this made potato chips
even more popular.
www.enchantedlearning.com George Crum Inventor
of Potato Chips Author note known Downloaded
Feb. 24, 2007
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