Information Skills — Grade 4

Slipsliding poetry

Students will work with a partner to write an original piece of poetry to express information learned about the rain forest and an animal that lives in that habitat. Students will share their poems by creating a multimedia slide show.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills)

By Angela Hodges.

Lesson plans on the web

How a blue crab changes as it grows

Students explore the BlueCrab Archives website to understand the changes that a blue crab goes through during molting, and why it is important for scientists to understand these changes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science, Computer Technology Skills, and Information Skills)

Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest

Students use the web to explore the lives of some celebrated Americans. Working in small groups, they complete a WebQuest, identifying facts and locating different types of information in order to determine the criteria used for selecting these “Amazing Americans.” (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Computer Technology Skills, Information Skills, Social Studies, and English Language Arts)

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities