Cruising Through Research: Library Skills for Young Adults
Libraries Unlimited | John D. Volkman | School Library | Children's YA School Services | Available
ISBN 10: 1563085364
ISBN 13: 9781563085369
Teaching research skills is a breeze with these fun, reproducible lessons! Through a variety of engaging projects, students experience and learn research techniques that they can use throughout their lives. In one lesson, they take a treasure hunt approach, consulting standard library materials such as Current Biography, Dictionary of American History, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Contemporary Authors, to find answers to a series of reference questions. In another students write letters (term papers in disguise) that describe in detail a future cruise. In the process they learn how to take notes and combine facts to produce an interesting paper and an accurate bibliography. Projects include topics for science, foreign language, social science, and language arts. For example, the unit on the Vietnam War consists of six stations-making a map, listening and reacting to songs from the era, producing graphics based on editorials and letters from Vietnam soldiers, responding to poetry written by v
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Objectives, complete instructions, a list of needed resources, reproducible activity sheets and a bibliography are provided for each project.-Teacher Librarian
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