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.

Books for IL instruction to kids

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."

New link with teaching ideas

Hello all:
I'm posting a new link with some ideas for teaching children how to use the Internet.


http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/

bye for now
Meg

New link with teaching ideas

Hello All:

Here's a link with teaching ideas - to introduce children to the internet.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/

see you again
Meg

New link with teaching ideas

Hello All:

Here's a link with teaching ideas - to introduce children to the internet.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/

see you again
Meg

Ontario Information LIteracy project from school libraries

Hello all:

I strongly urge you all to look at the following site.

As far as the "checklist" is concerned - it looks like our work is done for us.

What we can add is how we can address or teach the topics they have identified as age appropriate.

http://www.accessola.com/action/positions/info_studies/html/toc.html

I'm sorry that it has taken me this long to locate the document.
Even so, I still think it will be useful.

thanks
Meg

New Links

Hello all:

I included the link that Karen sent and I added one I found recently.

The link for the grade ranges is definately worth looking at - it provides a similar model to one we are proposing.

They break it down into
"Knowledge Seekers"
"Quality Producers"
"Self Directed Learners"
and others.

thanks
Meg

Added links

Hi All:

I added a couple of links.
One is From Carnegie Mellon University - re lesson plans for teaching Info lit to kids.

I'm curious what you think of them. Unfortunately, there are many broken/dead links - which is not great- as they would have been useful.

The other is what Karen sent us from the Kentucky virtual library.
This is for our quick reference.

Just to update Karen and Hilary who weren't in the last meeting:
Our next main task is to come up with a checklist of which skills we think children need in order to gain expertise in navigating the information sources availalable to them. We were developing this in hopes that the teachers would be able to fill out the forms and then we could tailor our presentation for the skills most needed. The minutes should explain in more detail.


e.g. do your students know how to look for a book by title using library catalogue?
do your students know the difference between a web search engine and a database?


please post your comments!

Thanks,
Meg

Online Info Lit Tutorial from U of W

G'day ladies - University of Winnipeg has created an online Information Literacy tutorial, which can be accessed by following this link:
http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/about/accessservices/il/index.cfm
It will be really useful for the high school age group, but could be adapted for the youger grades. love the idea of creating an online version of our programme. We could create one for children on kidstown and a second adapted version for the (allegedly forthcoming) teenpage. Do you think an online product is worth pursuing?
Andrea