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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students use encyclopedias, almanacs, and nutrition books to find information on vitamins and minerals contained in vegetables. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students identify the role of artists in mass media. They use search strategies to retrieve electronic information, use electronic encyclopedias, almanacs, indexes, and use catalogs to retrieve and select relevant information. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore the encyclopedia and take notes from it in a formatted way. They analyze and compare the encyclopedia to an almanac and begin to take information on their chosen president. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students explore a variety of reference resources while seeking information. atlases, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and online search engines as well as library card catalogs are utilized in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students locate and use basic print sources found in the school library. Students compare and contrast the types of information found in various different types of reference books including atlases, encyclopedias, almanacs and dictionaries. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac, glossary, thesaurus, and/or telephone book, practice finding and exploring listed Internet sites for reference materials, and correct ready-made paper using Spellcheck, Thesaurus, and print functions. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students work cooperatively in order to identify specific situations in which an almanac is the best choice for locating information. They answer specific questions, record the page on which the answer was found, and the key words used to find the answer. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students use maps and other geographic resources to learn about their world while problem solving. They read clues each day and use classroom resources to narrow down where the prize is located. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students define an almanac and list reasons why they would use an almanac. They select a topic of interest in the almanac and create a "Did You Know?" poster. They creatively display the facts they compiled on their topic. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students choose a question from the 'Wonder'¿¿ box which is placed on a centralized table. Questions are designed to point students to a particular best reference material such as: an atlas, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, an almanac, the internet or a database. Working in pairs, they need to answer 6 questions, write the question, the answer, and where they discovered the answer. Full Review »
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