Full Description
This collection of ideas for lessons provides school librarians with inspiration for meeting the tsunami of new standards dictating change for today's next generation learners.
Today's school librarian has less and less time to prepare for instruction. This book delivers lesson plans for the librarian to implement immediately, as is or with a little adaptation. Using the new AASL standards and an Information Literacy scope and sequence carefully crafted for K-6 students, the authors package lessons that are both engaging and challenging.
This book inspires librarians to go beyond their usual role in literacy promotion and instruction only and moves to preparing students to be inquiry learners by embracing inquiry-based learning. Lessons include the Essential Question (begin with the end in mind); pre- and post-assessment ideas; technology integration ideas, where applicable; reading and research ideas; and collaboration ideas when applicable. AASL Standards and others are noted via an "integrated standards checklist," while new educational research demonstrates that standards can be met via engaging, collaborative, and interesting lessons, modeled throughout the text.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. What is a Springboard?
Why Springboards Work
Springboards to Best Professional Practice
Current Educational Research as a Springboard
2. How to Use This Book
A Tsunami of New Standards
PowerVerbs: A Key to New Library Standards
PowerVerbs: Inquiry and All the Standards
Learning to Learn: Focus Questions Supporting Inquiry-Based Learning
A Note on Vocabulary Acquisition—Carpe Diem!
3. Introduction to Inquiry-Based Learning
Understanding the Basics of Inquiry Learning!
Driven by a BIG Question
Wonder—Understanding and Ideas
Investigate—Understanding and Ideas
Synthesis—Understanding and Ideas
Express—Understanding and Ideas
Understanding the Basics of Assessment
4. Lesson Plans for Early Elementary Grades
A Sense of Adventure
A Vanishing Marsupial?
Choosing Kindness
A Circumnavigating Hen?
Conflicts!
Fact or Opinion?
Friends
Garden Power
Gravity Makes Us Fall
Get a Growth Mindset
Imagination!
Ordinary People Change the World
Pets Teach Science
Rules, Rules, Rules
Scarcity and Economic Decisions
Snowflakes, Snowdays, and Symmetry
Stop That Yawn! (Involuntary Reactions)
Tiny, Perfect Things
5. Lesson Plans for Middle Elementary Grades
Animal Adaptations for Survival
Animal Poetry
Beneath My Feet
Extreme Landforms—The Birth of Extreme Sports!
Kids Step Up and Save the Day!
Hello Brain!
Imagination and Invention!
Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors versus Statistics
Pirate Plunder: Fact or Fiction
Stegothesaurus
Trash or Treasure?
Water in Disguise
Where in the World is Your School?
Resilience = We Bounce Back!
WOOOSH!—Supersoaker Secrets
6. Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary Grades or Talented and Gifted
Hurricanes Blow Your House Down
Sports: Science in Action!
Artificial Intelligence
Bee Informed!
Burgers or Bugs?
Cities = Heat Islands
Country Cuisines: How Are You Dining Tonight?
Meaningful Mess: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
How to Become a ...
Taking a Stand
The Dust Bowl
Trust but Verify
What if (Your Animal) Disappeared?
Fake Food Fix (Talented and Gifted)
UN Sustainable Global Goals (Talented and Gifted)
Climate Connections (Talented and Gifted)
Refugee Children (Talented and Gifted)
Appendix A: Early Elementary Lessons Booklist
Appendix B: Middle Elementary Lessons Booklist
Appendix C: Upper Grades Lessons Booklist and Toolkit
Appendix D: Lesson Handout Masters for Copying
Appendix E: Synthesis Handouts
Copyright Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
