http://www.informationliteracy.org/searchNew plans http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/202This lesson helps 8th grade students understand perspectives, first by completing an exercise that will reveal the differences in their own and their classmates followed by a research project on the Civil Rights period in America. Through their research, students will learn about the Little Rock Nine as well as the other students at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas during the 1957-58 school year. Students will begin to understand the American experience based on extreme perspectives, during a pivotal time in American history. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/207This exciting lesson is a collaboration between the LMS and either a social studies or language arts teacher. Students will spend three class periods in the LMC reviewing website evaluation skills, note taking strategies, online sources, databases, and print sources to use for this class project. The research will be used to create a class newscast on decades from 1940 through 1990. Student groups, representing each decade, will do a newcast segment on either economics, culture, politics, historical significance, or technology as a specific aspect of their decade. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/208Brief Description: Two lessons in one! This can be used for any subject to evaluate Web Sites. In addition, there is also an activity tied in with evaluating Web Sites and the causes of the Civil War. Students will be given a lesson on how to judge the accuracy of a Web Site and if it should or should not be used for research. The instructor will go through the Web Site http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm which will show students how to evaluate Web Sites. Later they will find three Web Sites (on the related subject) and evaluate sites of their choosing. This lesson plan has been modified to include two worksheets on the causes of the Civil War. These worksheets should be used by the social studies teacher to evaluate students' learning. Any subject may use the evaluation Web Site links and worksheets. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/213Collaborating with the English Teacher in reading and signing (ASL) the book, What\'s Wrong With Timmy?, and using props in a role-play will not only create an awareness about people with differences, but will also create a further interest in learning about sign language. After the story, the students will write about any feelings, questions or concerns they might have regarding people with disabilities and submit to the teacher anonymously. Further discussion is prompted by specific questioning techniques. NOTE - This lesson may be completed in 40 minutes and may also be used to launch the lesson entitled Understanding and Accepting Differences. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/215This lesson will enable the students to learn about "pattern books" and what it is like to create a pattern book of their own in collaboration with others in a group.This lesson can also be modified to use as a Family Literacy Event. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/216Looking for a culminating project to draw your 7th or 8th graders' school year to a close? Compiling biographical essays on authors is just the trick. Don't be fooled by this seemingly mundane assignment, however. The novelty is packed into the KWL approach for gathering and organizing information, a technique that will keep students engaged in the research process and will arm them with a valuable information seeking strategy for the future. While reinforcing students' prior experiences with the conventional location and access of information resources, the construction of bibliographic citations, and the paraphrase of significant details in notetaking, this series of activities introduces an innovative way of making research most relevant for students and absorbing them in focused reading and organized extraction of pertinent information to build a final product. Still having doubts? Share just the first motivating segment of this lesson, and watch students' attention and curiosity grow. Build students' confidence by modeling each manageable phase of this KWL method, and when the time for independent researching arrives, they will welcome the personal control this approach grants them in compiling a final essay meaningful to them. NOTE: Includes activities that take place over 5 sessions. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/217Introductory lesson plans for learning to use the typical school library act as templates adaptable to any subject area. Classes form detective agencies, adopt spy names, and sleuth for clues to where information resides in library resources.Intended as a fun additional component to insert in traditional lesson plans, the skills required to complete these exercises increase student information vocabularies, and taps into and relies upon student motivation, multiple intelligences and different learning styles, and social cognitive awareness. These Information skills applications are designed to adapt to almost any subject area. Topics are assigned by teachers in any subject area or selected by students, then plugged-in to the template. Repetition of the lesson plan with different teachers in different subject areas will help demonstrate to students the power and flexibility of strong library research skills. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/219Students are to defend or argue a student uniform proposal. Students will utilize factual, cited information, not emotional information to support their assigned claim. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/220You love reading his/her books...he/she always seems to write about topics or feelings that you want to read about. Don't you ever wonder what these writers are about? How their lives influenced their writing? This is your chance to research an author and create a scrapbook about that person. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/231Students will learn how to use digital still cameras. In that process, they will also gain understanding of perspective and point of view and how they are understood and interpreted in writing as well as in photography.