Assignment+7+--+Information+Literacy+Model+Demonstration

Summer 2010**
 * RLS 514: Teaching Research to Children and Adolescents
 * Information Literacy Model Demonstrations**
 * Due August 7, 2010**
 * Reminder -- there are 6 lesson plans (one for each step) and one of those six is elaborated on in the presentation. The presentation shold give us an overview of the entire research unit. **

There are a variety of Information Literacy Models available for a school district to use. One of the benefits of adopting an Information Literacy Model is the common language that will be used by all educators. This pattern of research is reinforced for students from year to year and subject to subject. We have chosen to demonstrate and model the Big 6 Model (www.big6.com). Throughout the quarter, we will have a discussion of other models.

There are six components to the model we have chosen: Task Definition Information Seeking Strategies Locate and Access Information Use of Information Synthesis Evaluation Students will design a curricular unit made up of six lesson plans. There will be one lesson plan for each of the six steps. Please limit yourself to one teaching strategy for each of the steps. The lesson plan does not need to be extensive. You are free to select any curricular area or topic and grade level.

Your demonstration should be no more than 10 minutes including time for questions. It should review the curricular unit you’ve designed and highlight **one** of the lessons you’ve created. Please have copies of your lesson plans for your classmates. Copies of any tools you would use would be helpful. In this way, at the end of the course, each student will have a variety of teaching strategies to use when working with an Information Literacy Model.