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Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2003
Describes a unit that provides opportunities for students to examine the relationship between poetry and pictures as they select published poems, write their own poetry, and take photographs to accompany the poems in an anthology. Describes lesson one on intellectual property and copyright, and lesson two on appreciation. Includes a unit guide and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Copyrights, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Defines inquiry, a student-centered discovery process, and introduces Pathways to Knowledge(TM), an information process model that provides stages and strategies for anyone interested in gathering, using, and evaluating information. Describes the six stages of Pathways: Appreciation, Presearch; Search; Interpretation; Communication; and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1998
Explores changing curricular designs and the differences between traditional and authentic learning. Identifies significant design features of authentic design, and provides examples of these features with instructional units. (AEF)
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Development, Design Requirements, Educational Change
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Describes some of the author's observations about information technology trends and their impact on her two grandchildren's classroom experiences. Topics include the shift from acquisition to information access, the shift from paper to electronic format, networked communications and computerized collaborative projects, and the emerging portability…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society)
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Provides a class activity that includes strategies for teachers and library media specialists to help students learn how to evaluate information. Includes the need to focus on specific information that is needed; developing research questions; the information gathering process; questioning; mind maps to help see relationships; and checking for…
Descriptors: Bias, Class Activities, Evaluative Thinking, Information Needs
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2002
Discusses how to teach students in primary and intermediate grades to record and organize information. Highlights include developing a research question; collaborative planning between teachers and library media specialists; consistency of data entry; and an example of a unit on animal migration based on an appropriate Web site. (LRW)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Guides, Data Collection
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2001
Discusses "Information Literacy Standards" for school library media specialists that were included in the 1998 edition of "Information Power" and presents a lesson plan for middle school students on global warming that focuses on the standard addressing perspective, or point of view, and incorporates an information process…
Descriptors: Global Warming, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Learning Activities
