Orientation: Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet)
Unit 2: Primary Documents: How do we know history? Primary documents: inferring meaning using knowledge of history and sharing that knowledge online
Inferring meaning using knowledge of history to understand historical photos and documents,
For project, create an opinion about a topic. Support it with details from historical photos, and share that knowledge online using Voicethread.
Other resources/lessons on using primary documents:
Primary Documents tell a story: Using old ID cards to draw conclusions about a person's life. Create a timeline of what you know based on the ID cards.
Salem Witch Trials read aloud/discussion of primary documents in that trial.
Historical fiction bins: Share what you learned about the time period (Info Fluency 1.3.4, 1.4.5)
Bins of books about: Government (incl. Schoolhouse Rocks lyrics); NYS; Iroquois. Share what you learned circles (Info Fluency 1.3.5, 1.4.5).
Create whole group timeline about colonial history using bin of books.
Primary Documents - Drawing conclusions about history from photographs (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1)
Unit 3:What makes your country special? Country study with notetaking in ASL (Construct phase of Inquiry process)
Unit 4: Online searching skills/Digital Citizenship Collecting good websites for 5th grade
Searching strategies using key words: Synonyms (Info Fluency 1.3.3)
Parts of a webpage (Info Fluency 1.3.6)
RADCAB Level 1: Evaluating web sites for usefulness, authority, and currency (Info Fluency 1.3.10, 1.3.111, 1.3.12)
Databases to find articles (Info Fluency 1.3.5)
Fact check exercise (Info Fluency 1.3.12)
Unit 5: Narrative poetry/Novels in verse/Poems that tell a story
Unit 6: Summer Reading: Favorite genres
Media Literacy
Looking at advertising (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1, 1.3.11)
What is bias?
What is stereotyping?
Arts integration
Find a craft book and make a Xmas present (Info Fluency 1.3.3, 1.3.7, 2.3.3)
Social studies integration
Western expansion: We read Historical Fiction about Western Expansion, took notes watching America: The Story of us, and found "evidence" in the way of primary documents that our historical event took place.
Curriculum Overview for the year
Orientation: Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet)
Unit 1: What’s the same and what’s different between Fantasy and Science Fiction genres?: Writing and listening to booktalks
Unit 2: Primary Documents: How do we know history? Primary documents: inferring meaning using knowledge of history and sharing that knowledge online
Inferring meaning using knowledge of history to understand historical photos and documents,
For project, create an opinion about a topic. Support it with details from historical photos, and share that knowledge online using Voicethread.
Other resources/lessons on using primary documents:
Unit 3: What makes your country special? Country study with notetaking in ASL (Construct phase of Inquiry process)
Unit 4: Online searching skills/Digital Citizenship Collecting good websites for 5th grade
Unit 5: Narrative poetry/Novels in verse/Poems that tell a story
Unit 6: Summer Reading: Favorite genres
Media Literacy
Looking at advertising (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1, 1.3.11)
- What is bias?
- What is stereotyping?
Arts integration- Find a craft book and make a Xmas present (Info Fluency 1.3.3, 1.3.7, 2.3.3)
Social studies integrationWestern expansion: We read Historical Fiction about Western Expansion, took notes watching America: The Story of us, and found "evidence" in the way of primary documents that our historical event took place.
Spirit Day: