Finding InformationBully

Library Media Specialist

F. Yokoyama

Hook: Can you see the birdie?

• 6th grade students will:

• Find factual information from a pre-selected website

• By applying ‘skimming’ strategies

Learning Goal

• List several ways to find information from a pre-selected website.

Pre-test

Language Art Standard

• Standard 2: Reading Comprehension

• I can use reading strategies to construct meaning

• Benchmark LA.6.2.2

• I can use knowledge of organizational structures to construct meaning from texts

• GLOs - I can produce quality work

Information Literacy Standard

• Standards 1:

• I can access information efficiently and effectively

• Benchmark 1.5

• I can develop and us successful strategies for locating information

• Materials:

• Computer with Power Point

• Web site:

• Attitude: ready to work

• Placement: seated at a computer

• S

MAPS

• What strategies can I use to find information effectively and efficiently?

Essential Question

• I can

• create an organizational web chart using Power Point

• include topics to cover for my Bully video

Skills assessed

• Skim

• Sub-titles

• Bold words

• categories

• Bullets

Vocabulary

• Students are to:

• skim the pre-selected Bully web site for main ideas on Bulling.

• create an organizational web with branching main topics

Instructions

Sample web chart

Bully

topic 2

Subtopic 1c

Subtopic 1b

topic 4

topic 1

topic 3

Subtopic 1a

Exceeds Meets Approaching Not met

I can add sub-topics

I can add 4 - main topics

I can add 2 - 3 main topics

I can add 0 - 1 main topics

Assessment

Power Point Organizational Web chart

Exceeds Meets Approaching Not met

I can list ways

I can list ways

I can list ways I can list ways

Assessment

Post test - Ways to skim for information on a website

• List several ways to find information from a pre-selected website.

Post-test

• What I liked about this lesson is…

• I would improve my work for this lesson by….

Reflection