Designing+Lessons+Pathfinder

** Designing Lessons Pathfinder ** ** Scope ** : This pathfinder provides examples of resources and tools for teachers and teacher librarians who are designing lessons focused on content areas and information literacy. .

**KEYWORDS **
Evaluate information Information literacy Lessons Curriculum planning Planning Guides Questioning Search strategies Tools Tutorials

**BOOKS **
American Association of School Librarians. //Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action//. ALA, 2009. NEW!!! Buzzeo, Toni. // Collaborating to Meet Literacy Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for Grades K-2. // Linworth Books, 2007. Buzzeo, Toni. // Collaborating to Meet Literacy Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for Grades 1-6. // Linworth Books, 2002. Buzzeo, Toni. // Collaborating to Meet Literacy Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for Grades 7-12. // Linworth Books, 2002. // Graphic Organizers //. Kagan Cooperative Learning. (Smart Card), 1998. Harada, Violet H. and Joan M. Yoshina. //Assessing Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners.// Libraries Unlimited, 2005. Harada, Harada H., Carolyn H. Kirio, and Sandra H. Yamamoto. //Collaborating for Project-Based Learning: Grades 9-12//. Linworth Books, 2008. Harada, Violet H. and Joan M. Yoshina. //Inquiry Learning through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships//. Linworth, 2004. Hyerle, David. //A Field Guide to Using Visual Tools//. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2000. Hyerle, David. //Visual tools for constructing knowledge//. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1996. Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. //Build Your Own Information Literate School//. Spring, TX: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 2003. Valenza, Joyce Kasman. //Power Research Tools//. Chicago: ALA, 2003. Zmuda, Allison and Violet H. Harada. //Librarians as Learning Specialists: Meeting the Learning Imperative for the 21st Century//. Libraries Unlimited, 2008. 

** PORTALS AND VIRTUAL LIBRARIES **
[|Access Pennsylvania]. // [|The Internet Public Library: Pathfinders] //. IPL, The Regents of the University of Michigan, 2002 // [|The Multnomah County Library: Homework Center] //. (2006). Oregon. Multnomah County Library. // [|Jersey Clicks] //. The New Jersey State Library. [|Kentucky Virtual Library] (KYVL).

**JOURNALS **
// [|Edutopia] //. (n.d.). The George Lucas Foundation. Accessed on June 21, 2006. NOTE: This is an innovative web site that includes web-based issues of the magazine and creative ideas for teachers. // [|School Library Media Activities Monthly] //. Libraries Unlimited. Published monthly. Each issue includes creative sample lesson plans for grades K-8 designed by teacher librarians. // Library Media Connection //. Linworth Publications. Published monthly. Includes articles with ideas for lessons and instructional strategies developed by teacher librarians. Callison, Daniel. (2002, June). Information fluency. //School Library Media Activities Monthly,// 18 (10), 36-38. Callison, Daniel. Organizers. //School Library Media Activities Monthly,// 16 (5), 36-39. Callison, Daniel. “Scaffolding.” (2000, January). //School Library Media Activities Monthly//, (February 2001)17.6: 37-40. Koechlin, Carol. & Zwaan, S. (2002, October). Focus on understanding. //Teacher Librarian// 30 (1), 8-13. Note: Anything that Koechlin and Zwaan write will help you teach your students to do research!! Koechlin, C. & Zwaan, S. (2003). Kick it up a notch. //School Libraries in Canada, 22.4// Pappas, M. L. (November, 2000). Evaluating information. //School Library Media Activities Monthly// 17.3, 22-26. Pappas, Marjorie L. “Organizing Research.” //School Library Media Activities Monthly// 14.4 (1997) 30-32. Pappas, Marjorie L. “State Landmarks.” //School Library Media Activities Monthly// 19.9 (May, 2003) 22-25. Pappas, Marjorie L. “Writing Editorials.” //School Library Media Activities Monthly// 19.10 (June, 2003) 20-24.
 * JOURNAL ARTICLES **

**INFORMATION LITERACY **
[|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner]. ALA, 2007.

[|SLMAM Correlations Chart New (2007) to Old (1998).] //School Library Media Activities Monthl//y (February 2008) 24.6.

[|Information Literacy Curriculum]. Clarkstown Central School District. West Nyack, NY, 2000.

[|Information Literacy Curriculum]. Information Age Inquiry. Developed by Annette Lamb and Larrry Johnson. SCILS, IUPUI. 2006.

[|Information Literacy: Florida’s Library Media/Curriculum Connections]. Bureau of Instruction and Innovation. Library Media Services. Tallahassee, FL. N.d.

[|Sample Information Literacy Curriculum Framework]. Iowa Board of Education. N.d.

[|Information Literacy Across the Curriculum]. Bunch Library Wiki. Belmont University.

[|Information Literacy and Library Resources]. School-Libraries.org. Online Resources for School Libraries. Developed by Peter Milbury. 2002.

[|Supervisor’s Resource Bank: Information Literacy and Library Curriculum Framework]. Bellingham Public Schools. N.d. Note: This site does have some dead links and at least one highly irregular link to Barbara Stripling’s web site that is a hoax.

[|Information Literacy]. Bellevue School District. Bellevue, WA. NOTE: Some of the links on this page are password protected. The site includes scope and sequence charts.


 // [|Curriculum collaboration toolkit] //. (2005). NoodleTools. // [|Two taxonomies of the school library media program] //. (1988). From the book by David Loertscher. Bloom, Benjamin. //[|Bloom’s taxonomy: Sample questions],//. 1956. // [|Critical and creative thinking] //. Developed by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson., 2003. [|Thinking and Learning]. In2Edu. 2005.
 * CRITICAL THINKING **** (include Bloom’s taxonomy) **

**EVALUATING INFORMATION **
// [|Adventures of Cyberbee: Web evaluation] //. (2006). Linda Joseph. // [|Critically analyzing information sources] //. (2006). Cornell University. // [|Kathy Schrock’s guide for educators: Critical evaluation information] //. (2006). Discovery Education. // [|QUICK: The Quality information checklist] //. HDA and CHIQ, 2000. . // [|Why Evaluate Information Sources]? // (2004). Kentucky Virtual Library.

**GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS **
// [|BUBBL.US.] // A simple tool for creating organizers that can be used by groups. // [|Graphic organizers] // (1988). North Central Educational Laboratory.

[|Graphic organizers]. (2000-2006). Pearson Education, Inc. // [|Graphic Organizers: Activity Bank] //. (n.d.). S.C.O.R.E.

[|Inspiration]. Inspiration Software. 2009. // [|Library of Graphic Organizers] //. (n.d.).

McKenzie, J. (1997, October). [|Why Graphical Organizers?] //FNO, 7// (22006). Discovery Education.

[|Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking]. Greece Central School District.

[|The Virtual Institute]. New Jersey Department of Education’s Technology Fellowship Initiative.

[|Webspiration]. iLearn Technology. 2009.

**LESSONS—EXAMPLES **
// [|American Memory]. // The Library of Congress, 2007. // [|Blue Web’n] //. AT & T Knowledge Ventures. 2005. // [|The Educator’s Reference Desk: Lesson Plans]. // Education Institute of Syracuse. (n.d.) // [|EXPEDITIONS]. // National Geographic Society, 2005.

[|Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education]. Kent State University. Includes the TRAILS Assessment. [|Learn NC]. North Carolina Department of Instruction. // [|The Learning Network: Connections for Students, Teachers, and Parents] //. The New York Times Company, 2007.

McKenzie, Jamie. “[|Nothing but Net: Creating Slam Dunk Lesson Plans].” //FNO// (Summer 2006) 15.6. // [|PBS TeacherSource] //. Public Broadcasting Service, 1995-2006.

[|Read-Write-Think]. International Reading Association. 2009. [|S.O.S. for Information Literacy]. Syracuse University. // [|Thinkfinity: Education and Technology in the 21st Century] //. Verizon Foundation, 2007. 

**LESSON PLANNING **
[|Six Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans]. Dr. Bob Kizlik. 2008.

[|10 Steps to Developing a Quality Lesson Plan]. HotChalk. 2008.

[|Lesson Planning]. University of Missouri-Columbia. School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. 2005.

**<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">QUESTIONING **<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">
[|Essential Questions in Teaching and Learning]. The Teacher Development Network. 2008. [|Plugging into the Web]: A Webquest for Teachers. Developed by Debi Tisdell. 2002. [|Questioning]. Information Age Inquiry. SCLIS, IUPUI. 2006. [|A Questioning Toolkit]. Jamie McKenzie. //From Now On//. 1997. NOTE: McKenzie has been writing on questioning for many years. He developed this chart as a tool. [|The Question Mark]? Jamie McKenzie. FNO Press. [|Teaching for Understanding]. AIM: A Project of Education Development Center. 2002 -2005. [|Themes and Essential Questions]: Framing Inquiry and Promoting Critical Thinking. Greece Central School District. [|Using Essential Questions] to Focus Teaching and Learning. Technology for Learning Consortium.

**<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">RESOURCES **
// [|The British Museum] //. // [|The Children’s museum of Indianapolis] //. // [|Xpeditions Hall] //. National Geographic. // [|The Franklin Institute online] //. // [|Kids’ Space] //. 2006..The Kids’ Space Foundation. // [|Smithsonian] // // [|Smithsonian National Zoological Park] //. (n.d

**<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SEARCHING TOOLS **
// [|A Guide to Search Engines for Children] //. (2004). Paula Gragutsky. // [|Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need] //. (2006). NoodleTools, Inc. // KidsClick //. (2005). // [|KidsClick Worlds of Web Searching] //. Ramapo Catskill Library System. // [|Kids Tools for Searching the Internet] //. (2003). Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides. // [|Navigator: A Selective Guide to the Internet] //. (2006). New York Times Co.

**<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">TOOLS **
// [|Blogger.] // Google//.// 1998-2008. // [|BUBBL.US.] // A simple tool for creating organizers that can be used by groups.

[|Google Docs and Spreadsheets]. Google, Inc. 2008.

[|Library 2.0]. Shambles.

New Tools for Learning. Joyce Valenza. // [|NoodleTools] //. (2006). NoodleTools, Inc. Tools for creating bibliographies in several formats. // [|A Pathfinder for Constructing Pathfinders] //, 2005. // [|Pathfinders: Guide to Information Resources] //. (n.d.). John Newbery Elementary School. // [|Pathfinders]. // (n.d.). Springfield Township HS Virtual Library. Joyce Valenza.

[|PBWiki for Education]. PBWiki. 2008.

[|The Virtual Institute]. New Jersey Department of Education’s Technology Fellowship Initiative.

[|Wikispaces for Educators].

[|WordPress]. Automatic. 2008.

[|ZOHO]. Work Online. AdNet. 1999-2008.

Developed and Maintained by Marjorie L. Pappas. Last updated, March 2009.