I have worked in the library for 13 years. In these last 13 years I have tried so hard to find a tool my elementary students could use that is easy available and easy to use. Well I have found one.
Cite This For Me is a Google App the students are able to add onto their Chromebooks.
No matter the cite they are on they can click on the app that at the top of their screen and it cites it for them. We talk about the importance of citing their sources and plagiarism. It is a hard concept for elementary students to understand the severity of it, especially later in life.
This app has made it so that each time the students visit a cite they are able to create a bibliography right from this app and then when they are finished researching they have all of their sources listed already.
It also helps that we are a 1:1 Chromebook District. The High School Librarian found this her and and I decided that this is what we were going to use to teach all of the students citations and keep it the same for all. This will in turn help the students who are moving on from Elementary School to Middle School and then on to High School to keep it simple and consistent.
Consistency is key!
