Teaching and Learning Materials on the Web

While some of the following materials take an integrated approach to information literacies, some focus on isolated skills. When possible, information literacy should be connected with content-area standards. How can you adapt these materials to fit this need?

Explore the lessons at ReadWriteThink's Inquiry/Research.

Inquiry-rich Lessons, Activities, and Units

• Archeology and Storytelling
• Chicana and Chicano Space: A Thematic, Inquiry-based Art Education Resource
• CROAK
• Fish Kills
• The History and Use of Sampling Methods
• Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
• Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
• Landscape Explorers
• Minerals, Crystals, and Gems: Stepping-Stones to Inquiry
• The Anza Expeditions and the Geography of North America and related lessons
• Understanding the Kosovo/a Conflict: A Lesson in Media Literacy

Information and Media Literacy Topics

• Assignment Media Literacy. This website including lesson plans, educational software, media literacy materials and more.
• Best Practice Examples
• Center for Media Literacy - lots of lessons and ideas
• Information Fluency Lessons from LISD
• Information Literacy Skills used in BCPS Research Modules
• Information Literacy Lesson Plans from The Educator's Reference Desk - Links
• Library of Congress
• Marcopolo (use their search tool)
• NARA Digital Classroom
• PBS TeacherSource
• Library Media Lessons (4-5, 7-12) from Utah Education Network

Lesson Projects, Series, and Search Tools

• 42explore - lists resources, activities, and lessons
• Discovery School
• The Gateway
• LearnNC
• ReadWriteThink
• Smithsonian Education

Research Modules

• Curriculum-based Research Modules
• Geneva's Favorite Online Investigations
• Module Maker from questioning.org
• Online Research Modules from CAP
• Research Modules from BCPL
• Research Modules from questioning.org
• Specific Examples:
  • Saving Hawai'i's Endangered Species

Information Skills Activities and Tutorials

• Animated Tour of DDC from OCLC
• Do the Dewey from Middletown Thrall Library
• "Do We" Really Know Dewey?
• Library Instruction Lessons from Library Instruction
• Information Literacy Skills used in Research Modules from BCPL

Interactive Creation Tools

• Magnet Poetry, Stories, & Mad Libs: Writing Fun On The Web

 

Other Resources by Topic

 

Teaching with and about Books

Maryland Black-eyed Susan Book Award by Mary Jane Daley. Resource and lessons associated with teaching with book award books.

Teabag Reading by Joyce Caldwell. Focuses on eploring new books for leisure reading.

Questioning

Managing Group Discussions. Strategies

Questioning for Quality Thinking. Worksheet for questioning.

Thinking

Strategies to Extend Student Thinking

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