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Information Skills — Grade 7
Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
Objective 4.01. Identify information needs and formulate questions about those needs.
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We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.
General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Information Skills — Grade 7.
Aligned lesson plans
- Literature biography project
- Students will learn to develop the various processes used in researching and writing a biographical research paper, including brainstorming, note taking, outlining, creating a bibliography, and writing the final draft.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Sandra Dail.
- Interdisciplinary Integrated Unit on DNA/Genetics Part C: Language Arts
- The third lesson of an interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on language arts. The first two lessons in the unit focus on science and math.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Marlene Smith, and Tori Goldrick.
- I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
Resources on the web
- Let it grow: An inquiry-based organic gardening research project
- In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, and gardening at their school. They then create signs about their plants and present their research to the class... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
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