Teacher-Librarian Collaboration

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How Mx. Hollis can help you!
The lessons below are examples of collaborative lessons between Mx. Hollis and various teachers. Teachers- If you would like to collaborate on a lesson, just let me know!
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research question
This lesson teaches students how to develop a good research question in preparation for research. It is best for grades 10-12 and works best when students are allowed to choose their own topic. 
Required materials: projector with sound; 1 computer for each student
Required time: About 50 minutes
Best location: Your classroom or the Library
credible
This lesson, done using PearDeck, helps teach students how to find credible sources online. It is best done right before students are about to actually start their research project.
 
Required materials: 1 computer per student; projector and Internet access
Required time: 1 block period 
Best location for lesson: Your classroom or the Library
 

Background: Historically, teachers and librarians often use checklist methods like CRAAP and RADCAB to teach source credibility, but more and more, the reliability of these methods has come into question (Caulfield, 2018; Timsit, 2019; Warner, 2017). A much more accurate method that is quicker and builds a deeper and more long-lasting habit is called SIFT (or previously, The Four Moves) (Caulfield, 2019). The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has created a similar method called Lateral Reading.  Common Sense Media also uses the concept of lateral reading, rather than a checklist. These methods are helpful in creating the habit of fact-checking and developing the ability to discern if a source or a claim is credible. The lesson plan below is an amalgamation of the SIFT method minicourse and SHEG’s Lateral Reading Curriculum with a few ideas thrown in from Common Sense Media’s Hoaxes and Fakes Lesson, as well as a few ideas of my own. 

Fake News Lesson
This lesson helps teach students how to discern fake news from truth. 
Required materials: 1 computer per student
Required time: 1 block period 
Best location for lesson: Your classroom or the Library
How to search databases
 
This lesson helps teach students how to search the LAUSD Databases (particularly Gale and EBSCO) using Boolean operators. If you are requiring students to use Academic Journal Articles and/or the LAUSD Databases, let me know and I would be happy to come help you! It works best when students already have their topics chosen (or assigned) and are ready to begin their research.
Required materials: 1 computer per student 
Required time: 1 block period (45 minute presentation; then the rest of the time, students will research while we walk around and help them)
Best location for lesson: Your classroom or the Library
how to
This lesson teaches students how to read an academic journal article (hint- don't read the whole thing!) in preparation for research. It is best for grades 10-12 and would only work if the teacher requires the use of academic journal articles as one of students' sources for research projects. 
Required materials: 1 article printed out for each student
Required time: About 50 minutes
Best location: Your classroom or the Library
 
Welcome to the LIbrary
 
This is an overview of the library- how to find a book, the Dewey Decimal system, how to check out books and how to search the catalog to find books you want. After the presentation, students conduct a Scavenger Hunt to practice using what they learned. 
Required materials: 1 computer per student or per pair
Required time: One 50-minute period or a 50-minute portion of 1 block period if you want students to check out books too. In a block period, they would have time to do other work, as well.
Best location: Library
LAPL Resources
This presentation style lesson shows students some key resources at the L.A. Public Library, including FREE access to ebooks, audiobooks, movies, documentaries, TV shows, music, magazines, newspapers, language learning programs and tutoring. Students use their computers to log in and create accounts so that they have access. This lesson is best when teachers have a unit or activity in mind that requires the use of LAPL's resources. For example, in Ms. Setiarto's 12th grade English classes, students were required to choose a documentary from Kanopy to watch as a source for their impending research papers. 
Required materials: 1 computer per student; each student's LAPL card & PIN numbers already printed out (can be obtained from Schoology)
Required time: 30-50 minutes, depending on your and/or students' interest. For example, in Mrs. Hale's French classes, I showed students how to access music, movies, magazines and newspapers in French, as well as how to use Mango- a language learning program where you can record and hear your own voice!
Best location for lesson: Your classroom or the Library
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