Students will read a Who Was Book and utilize World Book Student to create a biography report.
School librarians can improve their practice by expanding their interactions to peers from different countries and cultures. This issue explores how school librarians can increase their global competence. Articles address cultural intelligence, international school library guidelines, school library research from around the world, and more.
This lesson is an introduction to the research process using the Ask. Act. Achieve. process
A lesson to introduce ISearch to young children. Children will research information on animals.
This is one in a series of Teach With INFOhio blog posts which aligns INFOhio's resources and web-based tools with Future Ready's Framework. The series of blog posts for Future Ready will be completed by August 2019.
This is a lesson practicing close reading of digital text. It uses Diigo to digitally annotate text of an article about childhood obesity.
Digital Citizenship curriculum — lessons, videos, activities
Cybersecurity is a set of techniques to protect the secrecy, integrity, and availability. This episode discusses these three goals and talk through some strategies we use like passwords, biometrics, and access privileges to keep our information as secure, but also as accessible as possible. From massive Denial of Service, or DoS attacks, to malware and brute force password cracking there are a lot of ways for hackers to gain access to your data, so we’ll also discuss some strategies like creating strong passwords, and , to keep your information safe.
Articles indexed in EBSCO's Masterfile Premier pertaining to Cybersecurity and Schools.
Articles from EBSCO Academic Search Premier focusing on cybersecurity and schools.
Kids InfoBits article from Muse by Peg Lopata.
This is a partial list of online elementary STEM resources in engineering, math and science for grades preK-6. The site is intended for use by educators and parents, but can be used directly by students as well.
As middle school students begin weighing their future career options, engineering may be one that they consider. This lesson plan allows those students to look at the four main types of engineering as well as some of the subgroups. Students will research what each type of engineer does then narrow the focus to a type of engineering that interests them most. They will explore engineering job opportunities in Ohio in the engineering field of their choice. All of the information they discover will be documented in a presentation that can be shared with others.
Welcome to INFOhio's Career Exploration Units. Students in grades 4-5 learn about careers in engineering and feats of engineering such as Ferris wheels and bridges. These units contain multiple lessons that use INFOhio's digital resources to help students learn, practice, and master key learning standards while learning more about career options in engineering fields such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace and in science and technology fields such as fuel cell technology and robotics.
These are the slides that were used as a FRED Talk on OER at the 2019 OETC Conference.
This lesson is designed to help 9th grade students be able to define confirmation bias and clickbait. It will start with class discussion and then the students will find examples on their own in current news stories.
This list was developed by the Creative Commons site and addresses many common questions about types of Creative Commons Lisc. and how they relate to copyright.
Students have to complete various tasks that show their mastery of features found within Google Slides. Example: Change the background of this slide to a beach. This has been adapted from an original work authored by Catlin Tucker.
Middle school students will use the InfOhio resource - Points of View Resource Center - to research and create a presentation to report on at least two points of view relating to the issue of children and smartphone usage.
District/Building INFOhio Coach, Karen Gedeon, from Cuyahoga Falls City Schools created these activities for middle school students to begin exploring ISearch.