Another link brought to us by Angela

Hello all:
I think Angela sent this in our email - but just in case it is a very useful resource.

http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lessons.html

bye for now
meg

Another book

Mac, Information Detective, in... The Curious Kids And the Squiggly Question Teacher Ideas Press Marilyn P., Dr. Arnone, Sharon Coatney, Gerry Stockley (Illustrator) Research Process Available 1591581893 Building on the success of The Strangest Dinosaur That Never Was (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), a storybook approach to teaching Web site evaluation to young learners, this set of books is the first in a series of three that focus on teaching the inquiry process to young learners. In the interactive storybook, Mac the Information Detective introduces the beginning stages of the research process--The Big Question, Narrowing It Down, and Making a Plan--to the curious kids who have found a caterpillar and want to know how to keep him alive until he becomes a beautiful butterfly. Accompanying the storybook is an educator's guide featuring lesson plans, extension ideas, vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets for teaching the inquiry process. The lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards in language arts and science, and are designed to be used collaboratively by the classroom teacher and teacher librarian.

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Mac, Information Detective, in The Curious Kids...Digging for Answers Teacher Ideas Press Marilyn P, Arnone, Sharon Coatney, Gerry Stockley (Illustrator) Research Process February 2006 1591583977

The Curious Kids Digging for Answers: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying Educators' Guide, is the second in a set of three dealing with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the "during" stage of the research process in which students locate, collect, organize, and interpret their information in order to answer their questions. In this Case, students have found a rock which is "no ordinary rock" (it may be a fossil!). They have many questions and they begin "digging" for answers. Accompanying the interactive storybook is an educators' guide featuring lesson plans for reading the story aloud and many extension lesson plans for teaching the inquiry process as well as vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets.

Strangest Dinosaur That Never Was/[Set] Teacher Ideas Press Dr. Marilyn P. Arnone Library Lessons Available 1591581486

The lovable character, "Mac," helps primary age children learn an important lesson about using the Web or information. The accompanying Educator's Guide offers reproducible worksheets and thematic lesson plans to extend the skill taught in the storybook. Grades K-3. Can$52.80
Reviews"A must-have for every elementary school library. Its unique format, promoting information literacy in the context of storytelling, will be a delight to young children as they learn these valuable skills." - Ruth V. Small, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University."