I can’t say enough about the PBS teachers site (www.pbs.org/teachers). “Discover the power of social media while promoting your students’ civic engagement” through Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement.
The site contains curriculum guides and lesson plans designed for k-12 (the higher level lessons can easily be tweaked for college freshmen). [...]
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Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement
Posted in Critical Thinking, Library Instruction, tagged Civic engagement, Lesson Plans on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just the Facts, Ma’am
Posted in Critical Thinking, Library Instruction, tagged Add new tag, Fact Checking, Information Literacy, Lesson Plans on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been working on designing the “Dear Someone/Persuasive Letter” assignment to use this fall, and stumbled upon this great site from Annenberg called Fact Checked. There are a ton of great lesson plan ideas that incorporate information literacy skills.
Here’s what the site has to say about itself:
“Our aim is to help students learn to [...]