denise g's List: Library Lesson Plans

• Essential Question
  What brings about the rise and fall of great civilizations?
• • Unit Questions
    What factors in Mayan society may have contributed to its demise?
    What factors in present-day Mayan society contribute to its continued survival?
    What factors do you think may have led the Mayas to abandon their cities before 900 AD?  
  • Content Questions
    What are the basic cultural institutions of a society?
    What are the research methods of archeology?
• Starting the Research
  Explain to students that for most of this project they will work in groups and will be assessed on their collaborative efforts.
• Presenting Their Work
  Guide students as they develop, organize, and prepare their comprehensive slideshow presentations.
  
• Basic library research and Internet search skills

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• virtual literature circles (
• Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Inferring, Analyzing, Synthesizing
• collaborate with local teachers.
• Think-Pair-Share activity
• What strategies did I use to help me apply this book to my life? 

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• Higher-Order Thinking Skills: Decision Making, Synthesis
• Reflection
  Now that students know quite a bit about another culture, ask them to reconsider and respond in writing to the Essential Question that they answered on the first day, How are we different yet also similar?
• t the collaboration rubric. Us
• • Basic Internet research skills  
  • Foreign language  
  • File management  
  • Word processing  
  • Desktop publishing  
  • Presentation software

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• Massachusetts
• efficient ways to search on the Internet
  
• attributing Internet sources
• focus questions
• • Which search engine did you find most helpful and why?
     
     
  • What about the other online resources? Which ones do you think you might use in the future?
     
     
  • What was the most surprising thing you learned?
     
     
  • What was the most helpful thing you learned?

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• If this method of outlining and organizing information is not appropriate for your students, other graphic organizers are available on the World Wide Web.
  
  
    Web Resources
   

   

  Graphic Organizers
   http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
   

  A bank of graphic organizers that can be used to outline information for report writing and more.

  • ideas for graphic organizers

• In order to become well-informed adults, it is a good idea for students to develop the habit of reading the news and keeping informed on important topics, such as geography, the environment, and world events.
• information literacy
• • analyze several news stories to determine their source, purpose, and bias; 
  • assess the purposes and viewpoints of National Geographic News stories; and
• sharing the results with the rest of the class.]
• • What is the article about? 
  • Who is the publisher? What is its source (if it was written by someone other than the publisher)? 
  • What is/are the purposes of the article (why did the publisher print it)? 
  • Are there biases or obvious points of view?

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• information-gathering
• develop strategies for extracting and evaluating information in all formats and in all content areas of the curriculum.
• problem or question.
• extract information f

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