Jan142008

Observing Students Locating Online Information
1. Literacy: Students will notice, label, and share online reading comprehension strategies that are both effective and ineffective for helping to locate useful information to answer a content-focused information problem.
 * LEARNING OBJECTIVES:**

2. Content: Students will locate, evaluate relevancy, synthesize, and share solutions to a content-focused information problem as part of an online strategy session.

Alignment to Scarsdale Elementary Technology Expectations • Grades 3-5 Research & Information Retrieval • Grades 3-5 Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision Making


 * Lesson Summary:** Create a somewhat challenging information problem (or two) to be solved in 20 minutes (for those who have effective strategies), related to a topic of inquiry. The question(s) should have different (or several) answers or pieces of the answers can be located in different locations (so it requires more than just simple fact location/recall). The task should prompt students to use a range of locating strategies, some of which may be familiar to many, some that only 1-2 students know, and some that some students might "discover" during the process. Time will be saved at the end of the class for students to share what they found in their smaller groups/partners about effective and ineffective online locating strategies (and possibly how these are similar to or different from strategies used to locate information in a book).

Download the teacher guidelines, teacher reflection sheet, and student worksheet for this activity by clicking here: [|Locating workshop.doc]