Information SkillsMission: "The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information." --Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (1988), p.1
To make the Cornelius Elementary program successful at achieving this mission, I implement a scaffolded approach to instruction, using the North Carolina Essential Standards for Information and Technology Skills as a framework. All students are engaged with technology during class. They use iPads and Chromebooks as a tool toward learning the standards below.
Kindergarten:
First Grade:
Second Grade:
Third Grade:
Fourth Grade:
Fifth grade:
To make the Cornelius Elementary program successful at achieving this mission, I implement a scaffolded approach to instruction, using the North Carolina Essential Standards for Information and Technology Skills as a framework. All students are engaged with technology during class. They use iPads and Chromebooks as a tool toward learning the standards below.
Kindergarten:
- Identify relevant sources of information for a given task.
- Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction.
- Use technology to gather, organize and present information and data.
- Develop relevant questions for a given purpose.
- Understand the importance of respect for the work of others (Copyright).
First Grade:
- Classify resources as relevant or not relevant for a given task.
- Classify text as fiction or nonfiction.
- Compare important facts and minor details.
- Use a variety of technology tools to gather, organize and present data and information.
- Recognize the steps of a simple research process. (Super 3 research model: Plan, Do, Review)
- Explain why safety is important when using the Internet.
Second Grade:
- Classify resources as current or not current.
- Categorize books by their genre characteristics.
- Summarize appropriate reading strategies when reading for information.
- Use a variety of technology tools to gather, organize and present data and information.
- Execute the steps of a simple research process. (Super 3 research model: Plan, Do, Review)
- Use simple citation rules for print and electronic resources.
Third Grade:
- Classify resources as reliable or not reliable.
- Use visual and literacy cues to locate relevant information in a given text.
- Use a variety of technology tools to gather, organize and present data and information.
- Super 3 research model and introduction to Big6
- Understand ethical behavior when using resources.
- Understand Internet safety precautions.
- Implement a research process by collaborating effectively with other students.
Fourth Grade:
- Use a variety of relevant and reliable sources to gather information.
- Implement a research process by collaborating effectively with other students.
- Explain the importance of relevant characteristics in various genres.
- Understand the guidelines for responsible use of technology hardware.
- Understand ethical behavior when using resources.
- Big 6 research model
- Use a variety of technology tools to gather, organize and present data and information.
Fifth grade:
- Differentiate strategies when reading informational text in a variety of formats.
- Understand Internet safety precautions.
- Differentiate strategies when reading various genres.
- Use a variety of technology tools to gather, organize and present data and information.
- Big 6 research model