Plagiarism
The Common Core State Standards for writing require students to use rigorous and evidence based writing to support their ideas, claims, and arguments. As such, educators need to be prepared to support the student's growth in evidence-based writing that includes properly citing all evidence.
Resources
This link can help you determine the students are using their own words. Paste a portion of their work in the text box, and the Site will find pages where the words match.
This provides a 20 minute tutorial about plagiarism that quizzes students on which samples are examples of plagiarism.
The Purdue OWL provides teacher and tutor resources on plagiarism, as well as the most up-to date resources for proper citations.
Jamie Boston, a librarian, gathers a copious amount of resources on avoiding, detecting, and teaching plagiarism.
As a real-world consequence for plagiarism, CNN and TIME reporter Fareed Zakaria is suspended from work for plagiarizing a paragraph from another newspaper.
In this episode of the cartoon Arthur, D.W. learns about plagiarism after she rushes to finish a paper by plagiarizing before Thanksgiving. This clip would be a way to introduce the plagiarism at the elementary level.
Here is a creative teacher parody of Carrie Underwood's Before He Cheats. Not necessarily instructive, but it's funny!
Here is another, student created, short video about plagiarism. This could be the introduction to an interdisciplinary collaborative project on plagiarism for high school students.