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Direct linkHarrington, LaDawna – Linworth, 2006
Using this inquiry-based process allows the teacher and librarian to assign mystery topics to individual students so they can conduct independent research on high-interest subjects. The book provides the tools and strategies teachers and librarians need to help students think and rethink methods of gathering and organizing information to solve…
Descriptors: Student Research, Inquiry, Middle School Students, Problem Solving
Download full textPennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg. – 1989
Although this guide was designed to support "Pennsylvania Online: A Curriculum Guide for School Library Media Centers" (1985), the State of Pennsylvania curriculum guide for online searching, many of its components are also suitable for use by school librarians when teaching the elements involved in searching for resources manually. Designed to…
Descriptors: Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Online Searching
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1997
Students are responsible for their own knowledge construction in student-centered, constructivist-learning environments. To be successful, students need tools, or organizers, to help explore relationships, organize information, and think critically. This article discusses and provides examples of presearch, search, interpretation, communication,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication (Thought Transfer), Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedMcDonough, Kristin – Research Strategies, 1987
Describes a course in information research in which students use a package of representative information sources to identify seminal works in a given field of inquiry. The materials contained in the package and specific procedures followed by students are described, and some informal evaluation of the process is provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Documentation, Higher Education, Information Sources
Volkman, John D. – 1998
This book presents an approach for school librarians to use to introduce basic research tools to students in grades 7-12. Twelve "Excursions" (i.e., library research projects) are described. Excursions 1 and 2 provide an introduction to reference books, and Excursions 3 and 4 explore note-taking and basic organization of research papers. The…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Pappas, Marjorie L.; And Others – 1996
The ever-increasing availability of electronic information resources online and on CD-ROM presents library media specialists, teachers, and students with a new set of challenges for accessing information. Electronic information resources enable access to nonlinear information, which allows searchers to explore relationships and make connections…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
