Plagiarism 4th and 5th grade Copas Library Activity

Plagiarism

How can I show respect for peoples work?​

By Victoria Copas

Poll

Have you ever heard of plagiarism before?

• Yes

• N

Plagiarism is...

taking someone else's ​work or ideas and passing them off as your own.

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​copying and pasting text, images, videos, or anything that someone else created without giving credit.

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Plagiarism is cheting and it is against school rules.​​

​Don't do it!

​Plagiarism is...

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Poll

If a teacher asks you to write a report or complete a project, the teacher expects you not to copy others’ work, whether it’s from a webpage or from your best friend. 

Even if you copy something into your own handwriting or retype it yourself, it’s called...

• borrowing

• plagiarism

• a goof idea

Open Ended

Why is it important NOT to plagiarize?

Poll

Let's Review!

Amari had baseball practice last night and didn't have time to do his homework. Justin offers to let him copy his, and send it to Amari in a email.

Poll

Review!

Carlos has to write a paragraph about water resources for science. He found a paragraph on a website that is just right. Carlos copies it down in his own handwriting.

Multiple Choice

Time for a Quiz!

Samantha copies a webpage into her book report and adds her own first sentence

• Plagiarism

• not plagiarism

Multiple Choice

Ming spends a lot of time searching the web. She finds a great drawing on a site. She prints it for the cover of her social studies report and gives credit to the illustrator in her report.

• This is plagiarism

• This is not plagiarism

Multiple Choice

Amira finds an article online. She copies and pastes the article into her book report. She doesn’t give the author credit. If the teacher finds out that Amira did this, she will probably:

• be asked to help other students with their reports.

• get in trouble for using someone else's work without giving credit.

• not get into trouble.