Power Research Tools: Learning Activities & Posters [Paperback]

Joyce Kasman Valenza (Author), Emily Valenza (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

A powerful collection of useful lessons, rubrics, graphic organizers, and curriculum designed to help students become successful users of information. Beginning with the first steps of research, the development of a thesis, the material progresses logically through the succeeding steps, covering Boolean operators; search tools and strategies; subject and keyword searching; ethics; plagiarism; documenting and citing resources; creating source and note cards; the process of writing the paper; and quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Rubrics included cover evaluation of multimedia projects, Web pages, research projects, and others designed for student and teacher evaluation. Eighteen colorful posters help teach and reinforce skills presented in the text, all of which correlate with Information Power, ISTE's NETS project, and ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. This is an invaluable resource for teaching information skills in any subject area, in middle school or high school.
Susan Shaver, Hemingford Public Schools, NE
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 113 pages
• Publisher: Amer Library Assn; Pap/Pstr edition (December 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838908381
• ISBN-13: 978-0838908389
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,061,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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