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Guide to Information Resources in Education:
Resources for Practicing Teachers



Be Information Smart

Increasingly, state and national standards are mandating that even young students demonstrate ability to conduct research.  For instance, Ohio's Research Standard for K-12 English Language Arts requires that:
 

"Students define and investigate self-selected or assigned issues, topics and problems. They locate, select and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference and technological sources. Students use an appropriate form to communicate their findings."

  • Do your students get all their information from the Web, often without questioning its credibility?
  • Do you want them to explore a variety of kinds of information?
  • Do you want to encourage them to think critically about the information they use?
Here is a growing collection of classroom-ready resources that you can use as is or adapt.  Lesson plans, handouts, worksheets and more are designed to help you meet Ohio's K-12 research standards.  Links to additional resources also are provided, and you are encouraged to submit your own resources to this collection for use by other teachers.

Connect to Be Information Smart resources page
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Databases for Your Students

INFOhio, OPLIN, and OhioLINK--the consortia representing Ohio school libraries, public libraries, and college and university libraries--have jointly purchased a group of new databases from EBSCOHost and other providers. These databases give you and your students full-text access to over 6,000 age-appropriate magazines, reference resources, and images These resources may be accessed from the OSU campus, your workplace, your home, or your public library.  Your students may access them from school, home, or public library. (They will need a login and password from their school librarian in order to access from home through the INFOhio Web page: http://www.infohio.org.  They will need a public library card in order to access from home through their public library.)

Connect to INFOhio (state-funded resources free to Ohio K-12 teachers and students)
Connect to OPLIN (state-funded resources free to Ohio public library users)
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Selected Lesson Plan Resources

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Selected Additional Web Resources

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