Learning Links:
Encyclopedia / Media / Interviews / Surveys / Database / Catalogue / Electronic Bulletin Board / Index / Inventory / Budget / Dictionary / Thesaurus
Demonstrators should be read from top to bottom, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Use research tools to access and synthesize information.
• Identify and use telecommunication options to obtain information.
• Identify and use print and non-print (e.g., video, CD-ROM) resources to obtain information.
• Question individuals to obtain information.
• Observe to obtain information.
• Manipulate objects to obtain information.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Use a variety of research tools and evaluate the effectiveness of each relevant to a specific need or problem.
• Analyze and compare information accessed from different sources.
• Use a variety of telecommunication resources to obtain information on a specific need or problem
• Question to obtain information on a specific need or problem.
• Gather information through observation on a specific need or problem.
High School Demonstrators
• Gather, analyze, compile, and use relelvant information from a variety of sources on a specific need or problem.
• Use a variety of telecommunication resources to obtain information on a specific need or problem.
• Question a variety of sources to obtain information on a specific need or problem.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies:
Collaborative Process: Cooperative Learning / Community-Based Instruction: Networking / Continuous Progress Assessment: Performance Events/Exhibitions / Problem Solving: Inquiry, Interviews, Questioning / Technology/Tools: Computers, Distance Learning, Manipulatives, Telecommunications / Whole Language Approach / Writing Process
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources:
Invite a local phone company representative to demonstrate how to use a telephone to obtain information and illustrate telephone adaptations for individuals with disabilities. Visit or telecommunicate with local public library, area college library, and State Department for Libraries and Archives. Visit local cemeteries to compile data (e.g., birth/death dates, family life expectancy). Core Concept: Accessing Sources
Sample Elementary Activities
• Watch a news broadcast on television and retell it for a student audience. P
• Create and video broadcast your own news program. PE
• Interview diverse people from the community about job responsibilites. Create a database about careers. PE, P
• Telephone three different grocery stores to compare prices of the same products. Create a spreadsheet and a graph of the results. P
• Conduct a CD-ROM search on bears and compile a resource list of "bear facts." P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Establish and use criteria to evaluate a variety of print and non-print materials based on how well they provide the information needed. PE, P
• Examine diverse problems that have statewide implications. Identify and evaluate possible solutions from various sources of information. P
• Interview a city official on regulations surrounding garbage disposal. Prepare a multimedia presentation. PE
• Investigate the reason behind a school rule. Interview the principal, teachers, staff, and students on their opinions of the rule. Organize the information using a database. Videotape a debate of the issue. PE, OE, P
Sample High School Activities
• Use telecommunications to gather information about tuition rates at various colleges, universities, business and technical schools. Compile, using a spreadsheet. PE, P
• Create a database of student support services available in the community. PE, P
• Investigate variables of car insurance rates for students. Analyze, compile, and report findings. PE, P
• Compile information on Kentucky's endangered species. Design and implement a campaign to rescue one of the species. PE, OE, P