How are students to become question generators, note takers, efficient planners, critical users of information, and creators of quality products? This book takes an instructional approach with a broad range of activities that can be used to develop these qualities in students. Moving beyond the usual theoretical discussions of the research process, Rankin provides learning activities to help middle and junior high students develop the skills necessary to carry out the steps of the research process. She also explores the roles of time management and the visual display of information and she...

These hands-on lessons for teaching the research process will help you effectively teach information skills, while implementing current national information literacy standards. Stanley offers strategies that connect standards to content area units of study, sharing dozens of successful collaboratively planned and taught research lessons. Detailed learning activities for each of the six research skills demonstrates how this process meets the needs of today's students as well as the requirements of many current educational trends and reforms-technology integration, literacy, critical...

Stanley applies the same user-friendly format that made her popular guide to teaching the six steps of the research process to high school students such a success. In this new volume geared toward middle school students, field-tested lessons, anecdotes, reproducible charts and templates, and research ideas all work together to transform the research process into bite-size steps that are both adaptable to various teaching styles and not overwhelming for students. By applying Stanley's methods you'll be pursuing education reforms including integrating technology, improving information...

Elementary educators can implement information literacy instruction across the curriculum and throughout the school with this invaluable guide. Beginning with a definition and description of information literacy and its components, the book details the roles and responsibilities of the literacy endeavor and it provides an in-service presentation for staff development. In addition, several state and organization information literacy standards are reviewed and interpreted, including the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning, developed by AASL and AECT (1998). Thompson and...

Motivate and inspire your students as you teach them valuable information skills. These authors show you how to build a motivation toolkit filled with dozens of quick, easy-to-apply techniques for planning, improving, and enhancing information skills lessons. Designed as a professional guide for practicing media specialists, this book can also be used for in-service training, in instructional techniques courses in preservice academic programs for school library media specialists, and by classroom teachers involved in teaching information skills.

Turn your students into lifelong learners "Pathways to Knowledge(r)" is an information process model that teachers and school librarians use with students to help them learn to gather, evaluate, and use information. The Pathways Model follows many of the Information Literacy Standards set forth by AASL and AECT and provides a structure for students to pursue inquiry learning. The five chapters focus on the Pathways Model, inquiry learning, instructional strategies, electronic tools and resources that enable the research process, and strategies for changing the curriculum to a focus on...