Week
9: Content Area Projects, Searching for Information
Homework
for the Teacher
- Last
week you scheduled a time for the Media and Technology Specialist
to teach your students how to search for information with
search engines and Boolean search statements, subject directories,
and your school's OPAC.
- If
your students have participated in the lesson, move on to
Week 10. If the Media Specialist’s lesson is planned
for a later date, you can review the material in Week 8 and
then begin the activities in Week 10.
- You
and the Media and Technology Specialist can work together
as a team to make all of your school's information resources
readily available. Media Specialists can assist you in identifying
and using the most appropriate format for any future learning
activity and can guide your selection of materials to compliment
the activity's curriculum objectives.
Reading
Strategy Spotlight
Where's
the beef? Use conclusions about important ideas to focus
students' reading and help them exclude the "unessential." Often,
by pointing out what is unimportant, you help students to distinguish importance more
clearly. Ask them to read and think aloud about their mental
images as you guide them to distinguish between images that
are critical to understanding and those little details in images
that are interesting, but not essential to the purpose for reading.
Students can use sensory images to lose themselves in rich detail,
gain a greater depth in the reading, draw conclusions, and make
text more memorable. Engaging discussion can grow from disputes
over what is important. Let children work to defend their positions.
Student
Activity Sheet
Printable pages designed to complement the current week's
Reading Strategy Spotlight and to help students organize their
thoughts, reflect upon reading material, and look for organizational
patterns in online text.
BBs: Weekly
Nuggets of "Best Practices" and "Brain Research"
What
+ what = "enrichment?" Link to Teachley's!
TechKnow
Disaster Preparedness Page
Printable Computer Skills Mini-Posters & activity sheets
for those times when the network crashes or equipment is unavailable.
You can print a different page each week.
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