library orientation for high school students

Outlines the development of an information literacy program. Presents model lessons for working within the elementary program; provides sample lessons for secondary schools; and includes templates for common instructional resources. Includes a CD-ROM with activity sheets, forms, and other documents mentioned in the text.

Presents twenty lessons and hand-on activities--including games, core activities, and assessment and review tools--for teaching information literacy, covering such topics as brainstorming, search strings, citations, publishing cycles, and bibliography, and provides ready-to-print activity materials on CD-ROM.

Offers library professionals a wide range of ideas that combine pop culture and information literacy to teach students how to find the information they need in the library and online.

Outlines the development of an information literacy program. Presents model lessons for working within the elementary program; provides sample lessons for secondary schools; and includes templates for common instructional resources. Includes a CD-ROM with activity sheets, forms, and other documents mentioned in the text.

Provides an overall context for the examination of literacy and learning in an information age; presents background on learning; shares principles that underlie good collaborative planning and teaching; and brings the learning focus to the library media program and the community.

Provides standards and guidelines for library media specialists and others in individual states, districts, and sites for training information-literate students.

Discusses how an information problem-solving strategy created by the author called FLIP IT! can be used by students, teachers, and librarians for all kinds of educational applications like reports, curriculum development, school events, and more.

Reviews the history of cooperation and collaboration in school libraries since the 1990s, discussing the benefits of collaboration between library media specialists and teachers at the elementary level; and features a common template for use in planning collaborative units, as well as a selection of units contributed by teams across the United States.

Presents comprehensive instruction on information literacy skills and discusses the trends, issues, and applications for the reviewed research as well as processing and diagnostic models and assessments.

Explains the collaboration process between library media specialists and educators and presents effective strategies and reproducible lessons that will help students become more involved in the library learning process.