Competency 5: Library Thing

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http://www.librarything.com/work/book/56764496

Teaching Information & Technology Skills : The Big6 in Elementary Schools
by Michael B. Eisenberg

My area of interest is teaching children how to research information. I used the tag research skills under the search tab and the first book was Teaching Information and Technology Skills : The Big6 in Elementary Schools by Micheal Eisenberg. My school had a workshop a few years ago on the Big6 approach to teaching students how to research information. I am familiar with the 6 steps in the model and I have used it in my classroom with my students. The book describes how to implement each of the six steps for teaching elementary student how to research information. The six steps are: Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

Database search: Library Literature and Books in Print

My second grade students are learning about the woodland forest ecosystem in science this month. I am integrating writing skills with science. I want to teach my students how to research different kinds of animals and the layers of the forest and complete a technology project that will use the information they have researched. I am focusing the search on teaching students research skills in the library.

"naive' question"

What lessons do I need to prepare to teach my students how to use the library to research information about woodland forests and animals?"

Library Literature Database

First I constructed the table and used the same facets and alternate terms from the previous database search. I used the thesaurus and added a few more terms.

Boolean statement: (elementary school students or children or children's library services or school libraries) AND (research skills or library skills or research techniques) AND (lessons or activity projects or teaching methods)

SS1: (elementary school students or children or children's library services or school libraries) AND (research skills or library skills or research techniques) AND (lessons or activity projects or teaching methods)

results: 9 records

citations: Only one record out of the nine was relevent to the query.

Stimson, Margaret (2003). "Winnipeg Teacher Librarians' Strategies For Teaching Research Skills". School libraries in Canada (0227-3780), 22 (4), p. 35.

Books in Print Database
I used the same facets and alternate terms from the previous search. I was unable to locate a thesaurus tab to try and search for thesaurus terms. I went to the advanced search tab and proceeded to search using the terms I used from previous searches on other databases.

Boolean Statement:

(elementary school students or elementary education or children or children's library services or school libraries) AND (research skills or library skills) AND (lessons or activities or teaching methods)

advanced search

Status: In print and forthcoming

Format: books

SS1: (elementary school students or elementary education or children or children's library services or school libraries) AND (research skills or library skills) AND (lessons or activities or teaching methods)

results: 26 records

citations:

Carlson, Chris. (2009). Guiding Student into Information Literacy: Strategies for Teachers and Teacher-Librarians. United States: Scarecrow Press Incorporated.

Books in Print database also included a feature using a Boolean Statement so I tried it, I used the subject all index and then the Boolean statement I wrote above.

su=(elementary school students or elementary education or children or children's libraries or school libraries) AND (research skills or library skills) AND (lessons or activities or teaching methods)

results: 37 records

citation:

Harker, Christa et al. (2008) Library Research with Emergent Readers: Meeting Standards through Collaboration. United States: Linworth Publishing, Incorporated.

Conclusions:

The search conducted using the Library Literature Database was more difficult for me to locate thesaurus terms. There was hardly any articles relevant to my query. The search results using the Books in Print database had so many more resources available that fit my query and not just the subject headings.

Database Search: WorldCat and ERIC

My second grade students are learning about the woodland forest ecosystem in science this month. I am integrating writing skills with science. I want to teach my students how to research different kinds of animals and the layers of the forest and complete a technology project that will use the information they have researched. I am focusing the search on teaching students research skills in the library.

'naive' question
" What lessons do I need to prepare to teach my students how to use the library to research information about woodland forests and animals?"




















Boolean search statements:
(Elementary school students or elementary education or children) AND (research skills or library skills or information literacy or student research or information skills) AND (lessons or activities or library instruction or curriculum)

ERIC/Search database

SSI: (elementary education or children) AND (research skills or library skills or student research) AND (lessons or activities or library instruction)

results: 1,118 records

Citation
Messmer, N. (2006). Developing Powerful Student Researchers. Learning and Leading with Technology. 33(4), 23-25.

SS2: (elementary students or children) AND (research skills or library skills) AND (lessons or library instruction)

results: 40 records

Citations: I am posting 4 citatations of articles that I think pertain to my area of interest.

Moody, R. (1997). On the Process of Inquiry: A Synergy of Teacher, School Library Media specialist, and Student. School Library Media Activities Monthly. 14(1), 31-34,50.

Gauthier, L. R. (1990). Teaching Upper Elementary Students about Reference Skills. Arizona Reading Journal. 19(1), 27.

Wesley, T. (1991). Teaching Library Research: Are We Preparing Students for Effective Information Use? Emergency LibrarianHammond, J. K. (1987).

"Primary" Research: A Program of Basic Research Skills for Primary Students. School Library Media Activities Monthly. 3(10), 26-29.. 18(3), 23-24,26-30.

WorldCat database

SSI: (elementary education or children) AND (research skills or library skills or student research) AND (lessons or activities or library instruction)

results: 9

Citation:
Los Alamos Public Schools. (1998). Library curriculum Grades K-6. [S.l.]: Los Alamos Public Schools.

SS2: (elementary students or children) AND (library skill or research skills) AND (lessons or library intruction)

Results: 2

Conclusion: The ERIC databases yielded more results for my query than the WorldCat databases. The second search statement had a fewer number of results compared to my first search statement and I was able to locate quite a few relevent articles to the query about teaching elementary students research skills. The first search yielded way to many results to sift through. It was easier and quicker to look over the results from the second search statement. WorldCat brought up the same few articles. WorldCat is a much larger database so I thought I would have had a greater number of results from WorldCat but ERIC is database focused on education realted journals and articles. The use of the subject headings played an important part in the difference in the number of results obtained because each database has their own list of subject headings. Knowledge of which database would best fit the query should also be taken into consideration when helping a patron conduct a search.

Competency 4: RSS Feed

Esme Raji Codell is a self proclaimed readiologist. She coined and trademarked the word to describe what she does. She is an a teacher, librarian and author and has made it her mission to promote reading and children's literature. She has a website http://www.planetesme.com/ and a blog where she writes reviews of books. I love children's literature and helping kids make connections to books and teaching them all the wonderful things they can learn from books. I have chosen to include the blog http://planetesme.blogspot.com/ for my RSS feed because as an elementary school teacher and future librarian I think the reviews Ms. Codell writes will help keep me updated with the most current and best books written for children.

Competency 3: Podcasts

Reading aloud to children is a very important part of early literacy education. In addition to being entertained children learn a lot of important reading skills and behaviors modeled by adults. Elementary school teachers and children's librarians know the importance of story time and read aloud so I thought it would be best for me to search for podcasts of people reading children's literature.

I used the search engine PodcastAlley.com using the term children's story time to search for podcasts. I liked Storynory: Audio Stories for Kids. I listened to a few podcasts and then went to the website http://storynory.com/ and discovered a wonderful website. There was a wide variety of story podcasts available to download and the best part is that they are free. There is a wide range of stories to choose from: fairy tales from Hans Christen Anderson and the Brother Grimm, Aesop, Bible stories, Greek Myths, stories from classic authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and poems by Edgar Allen Poe, and William Blake, even the entire book "Alice in Wonderland". The storyteller, Natasha Gostwick, has a sweet voice with a British accent. She reads at a nice even pace and clearly enunciates each word.

One of my favorite books as a child was "Alice in Wonderland". There is a new movie version of "Alice in Wonderland'" set to open in March. I like to read aloud books that have had a movie based on them to my students to compare and contrast the movie and book. So I have decided to include a link to the first chapter here: http://storynory.com/2006/09/24/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-by-lewis-carroll/

podcast
http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/alice1.mp3