History Search and Find

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts
• K-12: Mathematics
• Civics
• United States History
• K-12: Technology

Grade Level(s):

• 5th-6th Grade

Description:

Teacher-Librarian will collaborate with Social Studies teacher or classroom teacher to supplement and reinforce instruction on the American Revolution. The students will enter a specific website bookmarked on each work station and find answers to questions on handout worksheet. There is also an American Revolution Game to be played with the whole class upon completion of the worksheet.

Goals & Objectives:

Instructional Goals:

1. To extract information from electronic source.
2. To increase experience with research process.
3. To reinforce U.S. American Revolution historical facts.

Learning Objectives:

1. Students will follow directions from Teacher-Librarian to locate appropriate website.
2. Students will perform successful search from predetermined website.
3. Students will accurately retrieve answers to American Revolution worksheet.

Motivational Goals:

1. To build students’ confidence in their ability to search a website for specific information.
2. To reinforce students’ confidence in their ability to retrieve information on a website.
3. To promote student’s satisfaction in their research accomplishments.

Materials:

See supporting files for complete lesson plans.

Procedures:

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Assessment:

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Supporting Files:

• IMPACT_Lesson_Elem.doc
  Attached is my complete lesson plan.
• AmericanRevolution_Worksheet.doc
  Worksheet Questions
• American_Revolution_Answer_Key.doc
  Worksheet answer key
• AmericanRevolutionJeopardy.ppt
  Jeopardy Game

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Recognizes the need for information.

Evaluates information critically and competently.

• Determines accuracy, relevance and comprehensiveness.
• Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand.

Strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.

• Assesses the quality of the process and products of personal information seeking.

Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Respects intellectual property rights.
• Uses information technology responsibly.

Information Skills and Subskills (K-16)

Definition

• Determines amount/type of information needed to complete research task

Selection

• Narrows topic to be explored

Planning

• Creates a general framework for organizing information found

Collection

• Selects most appropriate information sources
• Locates relevant information within selected sources
• Identifies and extracts relevant information from selected sources
• Stores information for potential future use

Organization

• Filters out irrelevant information
• Summarizes/synthesizes/classifies final information

Presentation

• Presents results

Evaluation

• Evaluates end product
• Determines future usefulness/applicability of research process
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

National Content Standards (K-12)

Writing

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
• Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Reading

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
• Subject: Civics
• Understands the role and importance of law in the American constitutional system and issues regarding the judicial protection of individual rights
• Subject: K-12: Mathematics
• Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process