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STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY

INFORMATION SKILLS :: STRATEGIES :: GRADES K-2

GRADES K-2

Focus Areas
The learners will:

  • be exposed to a wide variety of resources (print, non-print, electronic)
  • develop personal tastes through guided practice
  • contrast and compare authors, illustrators, genres, and styles
  • identify similarities and differences as related to their environments and personal experiences
  • use simple research models to acquire information
  • share information and activities in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia) to extend content of resources used

 

Competency Goal 4The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  4.01 Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.

4.01.1 Brainstorm topics that children would like to know about or a topic being discussed in their classroom.

4.01.2 Ask what they want to learn. Record responses on a chart.

4.01.3 Select one graphic, one fact from a print source, and one fact from a non-print source. Share with others.

4.01.4 Discuss how resources are arranged in the media center, (e.g., easy books, fiction, nonfiction, reference).

4.01.5 Examine resources, (e.g. books, study prints, magazines, audio, video) and choose the best for a specific learning activity.

4.01.6 Select a topic and ask students what they want to know and chart responses. Discuss possible sources of information print and electronic.

4.01.7 Define and develop an information web on specific topics.

4.01.8 As a class brainstorm resources found in the school’s media center and complete the web.

4.01.9 Media Coordinator/classroom teachers collaborate to identify resources and facilitate research process appropriate to the information needs of students.

4.02 Describe several research models.

4.02.1 Media coordinator/classroom teachers provide opportunities for students to access and use information from a variety of resources on a topic (e.g., fireman, postman, farmer)
  1. Find pictures in books, magazines or print materials.
  2. Look up words in picture dictionaries
  3. Use technology tools to locate information and present findings.
  4. Access information from a variety of sources print, non-print, and online.
4.02.2 Identify and discuss information resources in the community.

4.02.3 As a class develop a paragraph report about a topic of interest (e.g., fireman, postman, farmer).
  1. Discuss topic and chart keywords.
  2. Identify resources (e.g., magazines, books, CDs, videos, online).
  3. Find three resources.
  4. Review, discuss, and chart findings.
  5. Write topic sentence and supporting details.
4.03 Develop a search strategy that includes the continuous evaluation of the research process and the information gathered.

403.1 After identifying a topic (ex. Animals), media coordinator will show a variety of books and briefly discuss them. Children will identify which books have information about the topic.

4.03.2 Practice formulating research questions that could be a guide in looking for specific information.

4.03.3 Develop a research web on a given topic. Brainstorm resources to locate information. List possible information sources (e.g., encyclopedias, CD-ROM’s, books, laserdiscs, videos, software).

4.03.4 As a class explore websites appropriate for student’s age and information needs. Identify elements that make the website good (e.g., information, organization, images, links).

4.04 Follow acceptable use guidelines (AUP/IUP) in accessing information.

4.04.1 Media coordinators/teachers model and discuss local AUP/IUP policies on a regular basis.

4.04.2 As a class activity, visit websites appropriate for student’s age and information needs. Identify elements that make the website good. (e.g., information, organization, images, links). Model how references should be cited and discuss why.

4.04.3 Review educational and commercial websites and identify similarities and differences.

4.05 Gather information.

4.05.1 Media coordinator/classroom teachers routinely model and encourage the use of charts and graphic organizers to collect and organize data.

4.05.2 Have students use a variety of graphic organizers to record and organize data.

4.05.3 Media coordinator/classroom teachers routinely identify information resources appropriate for the age and information needs of students in the classroom, media center, community, and online.

4.05.4 Visit websites appropriate for student's age and information needs. Identify elements that make the website good. (e.g., information, organization, images, links).

4.05.5 Routinely create bookmark files on topics of interest to provide helpful, safe resources for students.

4.06 Comply with the Copyright Law (P. L. 94-553).

4.06.1 Media coordinators and classroom teachers model and discuss respect for the work and intellectual property of others.

4.06.2 Media coordinators/classroom teachers routinely model, identify, and discuss information sources and the importance of citing them correctly.

4.06.3 Media coordinators/classroom teachers routinely discuss the importance of summarizing and rephrasing, instead of copying information from resources.

4.06.4 Have students routinely identify author, illustrator, and the publisher of stories/books.

4.07 Organize and use information.

4.07.1 Paste pictures of a selected topic on a poster or collage.As a class, develop a simple report on a specific topic:
  1. Discuss what students know about the topic and determine what additional information is needed.
  2. Use graphic organizers (e.g.; who, what, when, where, how) to help students know what information to collect and how to organize and present it.
  3. As a class routinely use graphic organizers to record and organize information on a variety of topics. Cite resources.
  4. Use information to answer questions.
  5. Have student workgroups use the same graphic organizer to gather information about a similar topic. Cite resources.
  6. Use webs and outlines to help organize data.
407.2 Have student workgroups:
  1. Select a topic and chart what they already know.
  2. Identify and chart questions they want to answer.
  3. Gather sources of information.
  4. Use information to answer questions and record answers.
  5. Organize answers into simple research report. Research form provided by media coordinator.
4.07.3 Have students dictate, illustrate, and present stories and information using Kid Pix.

4.08 Credit sources of information.

4.08.1 Students tell where information came from – name of book, person, picture, CD-ROM books, encyclopedia. CD-ROM, website.

4.08.2 Post a chart of books read and add to it throughout the year or for a given time.

4.08.3 Show lists of bibliographies/credits in books, assist them in learning the significance of giving credit to others’ works. Use simple forms for credits.

4.08.4 Include location for title, author on research procedure sheet.
  1. Students list author, title, illustrator, publisher of five favorite books.
  2. Students identify information from title page and cover.
4.08.5 After reading an article or book or after doing "mini" research on a classroom topic (i.e. animals).
  1. Have students identify information from title page and cover
  2. Have students list author, title, illustrator, and publisher of five favorite books.
4.09 Present information in a variety of formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).

4.09.1 Create alphabet cards.
  1. Use Print Shop, Kid Pix, Kid Works, to create alphabet cards.
  2. Use old magazines, clip art, or use digital cameras photograph images to represent words that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
  3. Paste single pictures or a collage on each card.
  4. Use the cards in various learning activities.
4.09.2 Provide opportunities for students to develop and present ideas and information in a variety of formats:
  1. Draw a pictures/posters
  2. Write a story
  3. Make a model
  4. Create a dramatic presentation
  5. Make a video
  6. Create multimedia product or slide show with Kid Pix
4.09.3 Complete simple research reports.

4.10 Evaluate the product.

4.10.1 Teacher assigns students to create a product with specific criteria. (Criteria should be absolutely clear with a checklist or rubric).
Guided Evaluation Activity
  1. Have students describe their creations and explain their work.
  2. Have class identify all the things that are good about the presentation.
  3. Have class suggest things that can be improved. Everyone must be careful about the feelings of the creator. Everyone will have a turn.
4.10.2 Assist students in evaluating the presentation through discussions, checklists, and rubrics.

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