http://www.informationliteracy.org/searchNew plans http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/200The students will use an encyclopedia to locate information on a selected animal, then write a paragraph based on notes taken in the library media center and complete a drawing of the animal.This lesson is designed to build student confidence in achieving the learning requirements and provide satisfaction through the completion of a finished product. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/201This activity may be included in a study of the human body in a science or health unit. The students will use multiple formats and sources to select and illustrate separate structures in the brain. This lesson will establish the relevance of the learning content for students and build confidence in their ability to achieve the learning requirements. 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/203This lesson is designed for 3rd grade students. It utilizes the school's OPAC, its print resources, and a high school science teacher, as a guest speaker. It is designed to inform and educate students on the topic of weather. The LMS' role will be to improve information seeking skills, as well as information literacy skills, and provide specific instruction for finding weather related materials in the library. This lesson will include two weather related stories that will introduce the student to weather related concepts. The high school science teacher will help enhance the topic by providing safe and fun examples of key weather concepts. He or she will also go into detail about the technology, and people who help to predict weather patterns. NOTE: This is a series of lessons occurring over a four-week period. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/204This lesson is the library component of a unit on mammals. The day before, children had sorted animal crackers into groups in the classroom as part of the math lesson called "Animal Crackers" and brainstormed favorite mammals in preparation for their visit to the library. In this lesson, children discover the non-fiction section of the library and narrow down their research topic to include one mammal of their choice. Motivation is enhanced because children have a choice of what they will research and ultimately how they will present the results of their research. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/205Students will work in groups studying one of the planets from the solar system. The students will be exposed to a variety of sources for their research, including print and non print material. The resulting project will be a powerpoint presentation. http://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/206Students will choose an animal and study how it camouflages itself to hide from its predators, then create a puppet of their animal camouflaged in its environment. This lesson will help sustain attention and establish the relevency of the content for students. 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/209In this game, students synthesize their role playing skills, love of literature (Junie B. Jones series, by Barbara Park), and knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System. One student reads a statement dramatically telling the class why they need a book, then asks another student for help. With the aide of a list of Dewey Decimal System subject groups, and lifelines like 50/50, phone-a-friend, and polling the audience, the second student will name the correct 100's group and physically go to the correct location in the library.