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[|Information Skills Library] Variety of __K-12 lesson plans__ covering research methods and reports along with other information skills lessons

[|Cyber Smart] Cyber Smart is a site full of lessons __broken up by grade levels__ (K-12) that cover searching the web, evaluating sources, citing sources, and other information literacy topics.

[|O.P.E.N Clearing House] __Elementary How To Lessons__ on: citing sources, doing research, choosing resources, finding information, using online tools, evaluatiing information, note taking, and a glossary.

http://www.khsd.k12.ca.us/district/instruct/InformationLiteracy Information Literacy Skills Groups and Accompanying Assignments 
 * Created by Librarians from the **** Kern ** ** High ** ** School District **** and **** Bakersfield ** ** College **

K-2

3rd - 4th http://allaboutexplorers.com/home All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.  5th - 6th [|Quality or Quanity] //**Comparing Criteria for Successful Search Results on Google and Yahoo created by The New York Times**//
 * This lesson is for students 6-12**

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/levalsearchtools.html The purpose of this lesson is to help students use web search tools - search engines and directories - most effectively so that they retrieve good information. This may be introduced once students have a topic statement or research question developed.

7th - 8th

High School http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/lurl.html This lesson is designed to help students become aware of the different domain suffixes in a web site address ( [|URL] or Universal/Uniform Resource Locator ), and more specifically, the type of organizations that each domain suffix represents. Knowing about the types of organizations associated with domain suffixes can help students become more discerning web users.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/lcurr.html The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to consider the currency of sources or information they use. To determine the currency of information, students must determine how up to date an information source is. (Students will be evaluating web sites but they need to understand that this skill applies to information from any source.)