This lesson plan is designed for an imaginary 45 minutes information literacy class for a group of 18 freshmen enrolled in an undergraduate forestry class at UBC. Through this class, I aim at introducing exploring the library resources using Summon search tool. The class is assumed to be one of a series of three classes that are embedded within the FRST 150 Scholarly Writing and Argumentation in Forestry course. The Forestry department describes this course as communicating concepts of forestry and links to human and environmental activities through writing, elements of argumentation, evaluating evidence, and searching for and citing references to back up claims; small-class experience. Students' assumed knowledge of library searching is minimal, however since this session is part of a series, it builds on freshly acquired knowledge (offered in previous classes in the series) on identifying keywords, Boolean operators, and the use of wildcards and truncation.
For this class I designed a lesson plan, developed the actual instruction materials (PowerPoint presentation and student worksheet), and delivered a mock session for classmates.
A sample slide indicating the difference between searching the web using Google search engine and searching the library resources using Summon.
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