Lower+School+2009-2010

=Lower School Library Lessons Outline=

September 14-18 (5th Grade in SS: Ancient Man) - Introduction to Library Class: what do you think of when you think of "library"? Idea Web - Introduction to Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program - Introduction of teachers - ORB Selection Handout: - Overview of Sua Sponte Grades -- Early morning Library drop-in
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Library Back to School Ideas

September 21-25 (4th grade in Science: Tide Pools) [|Introduction to OPAC] - need to create a handout for this class

Library Shelf-Sorting Game Online

=WORK IN PROGRESS= ====Links below are to lessons from S.O.S. for Information Literacy. They contain lesson plans which we should look at and consider using for these topics. They are not the lesson plans we will necessarily end up with! This is just a starting point, and we would prefer to integrate our library lessons with academic classes.====

September 28-October 2 [|Use OPAC to locate a book in the library] [|OPAC Treasure Hunt]

October 5-9 [|Intro. to New Library Layout] Physical tour of library/possible scavenger hunt/"mapping" the library

Oct 12-16 Introduction to New Library Layout, part 2

Oct 19-23 What are Keywords? [|Keyword Searching] [|21st Century Info. Literacies] [|KidsClick Lesson Plans on Keyword Searching] - Good pace; some too young to use "as is"

Oct 26-30 [|Boolean Operators] [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

Nov 2-6 [|Practicing Keyword searching with Boolean Operators, quotes, "-", etc...] [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

Nov 9-13 Keyword Searching wrap-up ie Google Game [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

Nov 16-20 [|Evaluating Websites] [|21st Century Info. Literacies] [|Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources] - ReadWriteThink

Nov 23-25 (Thanksgiving) Bogus Website [|Hoax Website] [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

Nov 30-Dec 4 Website [|Authority, Authenticity] [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

Dec 7-11 Evaluating Websites [|21st Century Info. Literacies] Dec 14-18 Evaluating Websites [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

January-February Documenting Sources [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

March [|Primary & Secondary Sources] [|Exploring Reference Sources] [|21st Century Info. Literacies]

April-May ORB Project - voicethread project [|Owly Lesson Plans] from Andy Runton [|Book Report Alternative Creating a New Book Cover] - ReadWriteThink

Print Resources (FSL):
Wolf run: A Caribou Eskimo tale by James Houston

Other possible lessons:
Bridging Literature and Mathematics by Visualizing Mathematical Concepts- ReadWriteThink