Light at the end of the tunnel

Movin' on - Combined lesson on CYRM book with reference lesson. Concept was good but all I didn't do as good a job on connecting the reason for researching Nepal with the setting for the book as I might have. Should have used a better intro to engage them and connect it back. Fifth graders, though, were mostly able to locate information in the sources. Some 4th did ok. Others had lots of difficulty due to lack of information access skills (fancy words for "doesn't know how to look things in ABC order up!). Good exercise, though, in using the actual sources rather than worksheets.

Next trick - get them to realize that The World Book is only ONE of the encyclopedias in the universe.

posted by Bookworm @ 8:31 PM