Connie Hamner Williams

Understanding Government Information (eBook, PDF)

A Teaching Strategy Toolkit for Grades 7-12

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how government information can be used to engage students through inquiry and project-based activities, thereby providing opportunities for creative investigation and discovery. Many government agencies and institutions provide educators with curricula, lesson plans, data, and direction-all of it free. But to access this largely hidden world of government information, one needs an understanding of how this government information is organized and knowledge about how to best utilize the finding aids, databases, and other search mechanisms to help guide effective research. This guidebook shows you how to locate high-quality, effective lesson plans developed by the nation's best educators, access reliable government data, and find curated lists of free government sources that are theme-based and reference national standards in social studies and health. Understanding Government Information: A Teaching Strategy Toolkit for Grades 7-12 is ideal for middle school and high school librarians and teachers in all subject areas, public youth services librarians, as well as parents teaching their students in home school based programs. You'll learn how to access expert-developed lesson plans, documents, images, and other primary sources along with suggested activities. The book also includes a teacher toolkit that details strategies for lessons and student activities that can be used across the curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440843501
• Artikelnr.: 68217504

Autorenporträt

Connie Hamner Williams was formerly a National Board Certified Teacher Librarian at Petaluma High School.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments List of Icons Introduction 1 Getting Geeky with
Government Information 2 Tools of the Trade: Toolkit Introducing the Tools
of the Trade Asking Questions with QFT Evidence Stacks Circle of Viewpoints
The Research Journal Search School: Searching for Government Resources on
the Web Dig & Dive Unpack Primary Sources with the Library of Congress
Bringing It All Together 3 Design Ideas: Classroom Strategies Inquiry and
Government Information Exhibits The Presidential Brief Theme Park Monument
Project The Powers of Persuasion: The Fine Art of Propaganda 4 Blueprint:
Agencies and Institutions U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Finance The
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) Presidential Libraries The Library of
Congress (LOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Park Service (NPS) Smithsonian Institution The Three Branches of
the Government . . . and a State Department National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Wait! There's More! Images Cited Index