Information Literacy Processes
To be information literate, an individual must recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use it. S(he) must be an Information Problem Solver.
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Big Six for grades K-12 - by Eisenberg and Berkowitz. This site provides explanations and links about information problem-solving and information literacy.
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The Research Cycle - Jamie McKenzie - seven steps in a research model help students achieve and learn the information literacy process
Tools to Help Students Find and Use Information
Filling the Toolbox - McKenzie and Davis. Classroom strategies to engender student questioning
Graphic Organizers - from Online Resources for California Educators
Graphic Organizers - from the producers of Inspiration software.
Kentucky Virtual Library - How to Do Research - High School
Tools to Help Educators Teach Students to Find and Use Information
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Note taking Rubric - A printable guide for helping students and teachers assess the note taking process as it relates to the library
Teaching Students to be ethical users of information
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Information Technology Ethics - resources for teaching information technology ethics to children and young adults by Doug Johnson.
Teaching Students about the Dewey Decimal System
- Let's Do Dewey Dewey Duck. Melvil Dewey. Click on the appropriate Dewey to begin the Library exercise on the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
- Do the Dewey - Basic guide to Dewey for grades 4-12.
Teaching Students about Evaluating Books and Websites
- Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Survey's Find a series of evaluation surveys to use with students who are learning to evaluate a website. You will find one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels.
Teaching Students Electronic Searching Techniques
- Research Cards (Elementary and Middle) a tool to help students organize your research for reports.
Other Instructionally Helpful Sites
- International Children's Digital Library - a place where kids all over the world can find lots of books from many different countries. It's a place where kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or travel very far to find the books. If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can see books from places like Croatia, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and more!
- KET - Kentucky Educational Television is a resource for information delivery to Kentucky's students and staff
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Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B. Johnson - This book is based on Walden by Henry David Thoreau and is for ages 4-104. Cyberbee has supplied activities, links and a teacher page to be used with students. Picture from: Amazon.com
- ESL Online Lessons for Students
- iSafe, Inc.
See also Best Practices of the Media Services website for instruction/programming help
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