Reference Source Instructional Lesson
TE 873 – Reference Services and Resources
Project 1 - Reference Source Instructional Lesson
University of Nebraska Kearney
Lori Applegate
September 16, 2012
Lesson Description:
Collaborative Lesson Plan 2nd Grade
Date: 05/16/2012
Content area: Language Arts and Science
Title: Animal Research -World Book Kids
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Teachers: Teacher: Mrs. Merrill and Media Specialist: Lori Applegate
Rationale: Students will benefit, in their acquisition of information literacy skills by knowing how to access and use World Book kids online. Also, students will benefit by increasing their knowledge of animals, and their habitats, by researching on World Book Kids.
Description of lessons in unit:
The first lesson will be the basic World Book Kids Animal Search, which is contained in the lesson plan that follows, which will include a more detailed description.
Lesson two will review the basic search, and include the World Book Kids Animal Comparison steps.
Lesson three will Review the basic WBKs search, the animal comparison, and how to use the dictionary.
The fourth lesson will be a review of the first three lessons.
The fifth lesson will be the culminating activity for our animal research unit, and will include students using their information to create their Animal Research Cubes. The students will draw four pictures for their cube (Two pictures for each animal.) Their illustrations will include 3, or more, facts about their animal and its habitat. The student will write one to two paragraphs for each drawing on the cube. The first panel of the cube will include the project title, and the student’s name. The animal and habitat cube drawings will be photographed, and the students writing scanned into the computer, and will be placed into student portfolios.
State Standards:
LA 2.1.6 b Use information in order to complete a task (e.g., follow multi-step directions, responding to questions).
LA 2.4.1 a Use resources to answer guiding questions (e.g. print, electronic).
LA 2.1.6 e Retell and summarize the main idea from informational text.
SC 2.3.1 a Students will investigate the characteristics of living things.
Standards for Writing and Cube Activity: (Last lesson to complete with research information.)
LA 2.2.1 Writing Process: Students will apply the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writing using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other standard conventions appropriate for grade level. (Includes: 2.2.1a, b, c, e, f, g)
LA 2.1.6 o Respond to text verbally, in writing, or artistically.
21st Century Standards
1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, digital, visual, media, digital, in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
1.1.8 Demonstrating a mastery of technology tools for assessing information and pursuing inquiry.
2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.
2.4.1 Determine how to act on information (accept, reject, modify).
3.1.6 Use information and technology ethically and responsibly.
4.1.7. Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.
Goals
The main goal of this lesson is to help the students learn to use World Book Kids on-line to locate information, and acquiring beginning information literacy skills.
- The second goal is for students to learn through their own discovery, during their research, about animals and their habitats.
- The last goal is for students to gain practice in locating citation and documenting citation information from research sources.
Objectives:
Objective 1: The students will be able to use a laptop computer to log into World Book
On-line.
Objective 2: The students will demonstrate a basic World Book Kids search for information on two animals of their choice.
Objective 3: The students will read for relevant information from World Book Kids
.
Objective 4: The students will locate citation information in World Book Kids On-line.
Objective 5: The students will copy relevant information from World Book Kids on their information sheets.
Required Materials and Equipment:
Lesson Materials:
- Lesson Plan
- Interactive whiteboard
- Teacher laptop
- Student Animal Research -
World Book Kids On-line
- Box with animal pictures
- Laptop cart –fully charged
- Blank information sheet lines drawn onto the dry erase board for interactive whiteboard demonstration.
- Hardcopy Animal encyclopedias for back counter the previous week.
- Pencils
- Student Animal Research Folders Containing:
- Student computer vocabulary lists
- Possible questions for my World Book Animal Research Sheet.
- Student performance objective checklist
- Student computer care and partner responsibility sheets
- Animal vocabulary sheets
PREREQUISITE EXPERIENCE:
This lesson will be used toward the end the science unit - The needs of living things and animal habitats. Students will have read about the habitats of many various animals. So, they should have some basic understanding of each type of habitat.
Students have experience using the laptops and will be familiar with many of the computer terms listed on their computer sheets, which are kept in their computer folders at their desks. However, we will include the same computer terms sheet in the student folder.
Differentiation:
Accommodations:
We have two students in the inclusion program, and they have IEP’s. They will be given extra guidance from our two high school student council assistants, and the higher level learning students that will be seated next to them.
Enrichment:
Students who are able to work ahead will be allowed to come up with more answers, and will be given the extra enrichment activity option of researching another animal of their choice.
Important Vocabulary Words
Animal Encyclopedias will be on the back counter for students to retrieve throughout the week before to help students when deciding on the two animals they will research.
The student’s computer vocabulary word sheet is included in this unit, and is for students to continue to use when we are using the computers in our lessons.
Lesson Description:
Anticipatory Set/Motivation:
Introduction:
In this lesson, each student will choose two animals (There will be four animal encyclopedias available the previous week on the back counter for students to find two animals to research). The students will explore their animals to learn about them and the habitats that they live in.
Question: Who remembers the different habitats from science?
(desert, tundra, rainforest, forest, ocean).
Question: Who can name one habitat, and one animal that would live there?
Animal Box Activity:
At this time bring out the box with all the animal pictures in it and ask 3 - 4 various students, one at a time, to draw an animal card from the box.
Question: What animal is on your card?
Have them hold up their card when they answer their question.
Question: What habitat do you think that animal lives in?
Have written on board: desert, tundra, rainforest, forest, and ocean.
Question: Name one way in which you think the habitat may meet the animal’s needs for (air, water, food, shelter)?
Instructional Activities:
Inform Students of Objectives:
We will provide a sheet with the objectives, along with the student rubric which is an assessment of the objectives, and we will go over them. The rubric and objective sheets will already be in their animal research folders which will be handed out at this time.
Objective 1: The students will be able to use a laptop computer to log into World Book On-line.
Objective 2: The students will demonstrate a basic World Book Kids search for information on two animals of their choice.
Objective 3: The students will read for relevant information from World Book Kids.
Objective 4: The students will locate citation information in World Book Kids On-line.
Objective 5: The students will copy relevant information from World Book Kids onto their information sheets.
Terminology Sheets:
At this time the media specialist will go quickly back over computer vocabulary sheet, and ask if the students know which animals they would like to research. If not students can look at one of the four Animal Encyclopedias.
Rubric and Student Performance Objective Checklists:
The media specialist will go over the student rubric, the self-assessment checklist, and the explain how we will use them.
Demonstration/Modeling:
Using the interactive whiteboard (Smart-board) the media specialist will demonstrate the steps while students follow along:
1. Logging onto the laptop.
2. Locating and clicking onto the homepage icon.
3. Locating and clicking on the World Book icon on the school homepage.
4. Locating the World Book Kids icon on the World Book page and clicking.
5. Locating the World Book Kids search box on the WBKs page.
6. Question: Ask students- Who can give me the name of an animal to type into the search box?
7. Type the animal name into the search-box and click on “go”.
8. Point out the titles, and sub-titles as reading the first and second paragraph.
9. Ask the students to raise their hand when they believe a piece of relevant information about the animal, or habitat is important. Then demonstrate writing the sentence on the board on the pre-drawn information sheet page. (Make sure to hold up the information sheet for comparison.)
10. Question: Can anyone tell me where the reference information is on the screen?
11. Go down to the left-hand corner of the screen and point out the reference information.
12. Have a student demonstrate writing the citation information on the board, and make sure to show them the citation line to write it on.
Guided Instruction: (Interactive Demonstration and Student Activity)
The media specialist will go through steps 1- 7 below slowly, on the interactive white board, following along, with students, on the Animal Research – World Book Kids Handout. The second grade teacher, the teaching assistant, and our two high school student council helpers, will help guide the students through each step, just after the media specialist demonstrates it. The two student council members will guide our two special education students through the process. The first copy of the objective assessment checklists will be used to note the student’s progress.
1. Students will go up two at a time to get their laptops from the cart.
2. Logging onto the laptop.
3. Locating and clicking onto the homepage icon.
4. Locating and clicking on the World Book icon on the school homepage.
5. Locating the World Book Kids icon on the World Book page and clicking
.
6. Locating the World Book Kids search box on the WBKs page.
7. The students will type their first animal name into the search-box and click.
Independent Practice:
Students now will be asked to continue to use their “Animal Research World Book Kids Handouts to move through the next five steps.. (During this time, teacher and assistant guidance to have students follow the steps will be extra important.) Students will be given time, and independence to decide what information is important, when reading for information on each of their two chosen animals.
8. When they find information that they consider relevant they will copy the sentences onto their information sheet.
9. They will find the reference information on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen for each sentence that they copy.
10. The students will then write it on their reference sheets on the citation line.
11. The students, and teacher, will go over the performance objective checklists and check off each step that they went through.
12. The students will go up two at a time and place the laptops back into the cart and then plug them in.
Closure:
At the end of the lesson explain to the students that during this week, and next, we will have three more lesson times on the computers to continue the World Book Kids research on our two animals, and to fill out our sheets. Also, during centers we will allow students to use the back computers to continue their research.
Assessments:
During this first lesson, and each time the students work on the computers (lessons 2-4), the following will be used for assessment:
- A teacher checklist with the lesson performance objectives.
- A student self-assessment checklist.
- A grading rubric for student self-assessment, and teaching assessment.
For lesson 5 – Research culminating activity:
- Student Informational Writing Rubric for student self-assessment, and teacher writing assessment.
- The students will need their Research Information Sheets with their sentences, and citations written on it.
- Cube Drawings: Should include their animal and three items from their habitat on all four sides of the cube.
- The animal and habitat cube drawings will be photographed, and the students writing scanned into the computer, and will be placed into student portfolios.
Student Animal Research - World Book Kids On-line Handout
- Logging onto the laptop.
To start up the laptop push the button on the top of the keyboard and wait.
______________________________________________________________________
2. Type your “user name,” and “password,” and “enter.”
- Locating and clicking onto the homepage icon.
Click on the word “home” in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
- Locating and clicking on the World Book icon on the school homepage and enter..
- Additional Links
- Accelerated Reader
- Concessions
- Cross Country
- eFunds
- ESU 16 Email
- Future Problem Solvers
- Gaggle
- IXL
- Livestream Events
- Lunch survey
- myElearning
- NASB
- Parent/Guardian Survey
- Paxton Library-Alexandria
- PowerSchool-Student
- PowerSchool-Teacher
- School Board Meeting Agenda
- Teacher's Helper
- Visual Thesaurus
- World Book Online
- Locating the World Book Kids icon word on the World Book page and click on it, or press enter.
On the World Book Home Page click on the word “World Book Online.” It is in the rectangular box, just like the one below, on the right side of the screen.
- Locating the World Book Kids search box on the WBKs page.
Searching for Animals on the World Book Kids Home Page
- Type in the name of your animal in the “Search,” box at the top and center of the World Book Kids and then click on the “GO” box, or just press “enter.”
OR
- You can click on the “Plants and Animals,” rectangle below to search for your animal. Now type in your search animals name when the search box comes up on the next screen.
Now your article page should pop-up!
World Book Kids Article Example:
Source: http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_2.htm
1. Your article is on the page above.
2. The citation information is at the bottom of the article page.
3. If you want to watch a learning video you will find them here.
4. If you want to know the definition of a word in your article just double click on it, and a box will pop up that has the definition inside.
5. Look for words that appear alphabetically before and after the selected word using the links in the left-hand index column.
World Book On-line’s ” World of Animals This is a great way to research and compare animals. 1. Start by clicking on the “World of Animals,” circle. Source: http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_ 2. Look at many different animals by clicking on the white arrows. 3. When you see your animals picture click on it and when the ext screen comes up you can read about your animal. Choosing and Comparing Two Animals: 4. After choosing, and reading about, your first animal click on “Start Comparison” to select a second animal. Source: http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_2.htm 5. Click on “Compare Now” to compare your animals side by side. The World of Animals' comparison will come up. It displays animal facts and images side by side. Source: http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_2.htm Using World Book Kids Dictionary
-
To go to the dictionary click on the circle with the word “Dictionary” in it at the bottom of the World Book Kids page.
-
Enter your word into the search box, and click on “GO.”
-
A definition will come up that you can read about your word.
Remember if you want to know the definition of a word when reading an article just double-click on it. When you double click on a word in your article to find the definition, (what it means), a box like this one will pop up. http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_4.htm Click the x in the upper right to close the box. Source: http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/kids/html/kids_6.htm
References
Bishop, K (2007). The collection program in schools concepts, practices, and information sources. Westport, CT. Libraries Unlimited.
Fisher, P., Heath, E., Price, Megan. (2004). Kindergarten research. Knowledge quest. (30)2, 36-39.
Wright, J. M. (2008) Curing resistance to student research by infecting ‘em with the plague: A technology infused course of treatment. Texas Library Journal, (84)1, 20-21.
Young, L. (1998). Yoyo (You’re on your own)! Book Report, (17)1, 19-21.
Print 