7th+Grade

7th Grade

=** ODE SCHOOL LIBRARY GUIDELINES **= _____ 1. Discuss search strategies and information retrieval methods with the library media specialist or library staff member as needed. _____ 2. Participate in library media center activities and reading celebrations (e.g., Right to Read Week, Teen Read Week, School Library Media Month). _____ 3. Know that public libraries have a variety of sections or departments that provide materials (e.g., children’s department, young adult section, local history section, genealogy department). _____ 4. Understand there are many types of libraries that serve as a variety of purposes (e.g., school, public, academic, government). _____ 1. Evaluate library materials and select formats based on information need (e.g., print, nonprint, audio, video). _____ 2. Demonstrate appropriate procedures when borrowing library material (e.g., follow check-out and check-in procedures and return materials on time). _____ 3. Locate fiction and nonfiction books by call letters/numbers. _____ 4. Use the library reference collection to find answers. _____ 5. Locate resources using a title, subject or author, keyword and advanced searches in the library catalog. _____ 6. Demonstrate awareness of cultural diversities, differing opinions and points of view when using materials. _____ 1. Read for pleasure and information. _____ 2. Compare the actions of and consequences that events had on characters in reading material. _____ 3. Participate in choral speaking, creative dramatics and other literary enrichment activities. _____ 4. Explore books by authors who write in different fictional genres and literary styles (e.g., prose, dialect). _____ 5. Read award-winning books and understand that the award is given for the writing of the book (e.g., Newbery, King, Wilder). _____ 1. Distinguish when current copyright dates of sources are important in answering an information need (e.g., science information on cloning, results of an election). _____ 2. Assess the objectivity (the ability of an author to present information without bias) of a source when using information. _____ 3. Compare multiple sources (online encyclopedia, Web site, online magazine database, print source) to check accuracy of information. (e.g., Do facts match on each site?) _____ 4. Determine if a given source has all the information needed (coverage) for a question or project (e.g., general encyclopedia with a subject overview, magazine article highlighting specific issue). _____ 5. Chart information gathered from multiple sources to determine facts to be used in a project. _____ 1. Develop open-ended research questions about a defined information need. _____ 2. Select and evaluate relevant information about a specific topic in several sources. _____ 3. Select information from different types of subscription resources (fee-based, pay-to-use) to meet an information need (e.g., magazine database, picture archive, online encyclopedia). _____ 4. Compile information learned about a topic from a variety of sources. _____ 5. Create information products to share information using different formats (e.g., print, audio recording, digital, video, slide show). _____ 6. Identify primary and secondary source material and discuss differences. _____ 7. Take notes, organize information into logical sequence and create a draft product (e.g., report, research paper, presentation). _____ 8. Critically evaluate the quality of the information resource (e.g., authority, accuracy, currency, objectivity). _____ 9. Evaluate how information was found and assess the quality of the information product.
 * ~GRADE 7~ **
 * __ INFORMATION LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs provide information literacy skills instruction. **
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Understand the function of the school library media center, recognize other types of libraries, and use a variety of libraries to meet informational and personal needs. //
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Identify information needs, select school library media books and materials in a variety of formats, and demonstrate responsible use and ethical behavior when using library media materials. //
 * // Benchmark C: //**// Select literature by genre based on need and personal enjoyment. //
 * // Benchmark D: //**// Evaluate the accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage and relevance of information and data sources. //
 * // Benchmark E: //**// Conduct research and follow a research process model that includes the following: develop essential question; identify resources; select, use and analyze information; synthesize and generate a product; and evaluate both process and product. //

_____ 1. Conduct OPAC searches using Boolean logic (e.g., “AND,” “OR,” “NOT”). _____ 2. Identify information about library materials in the OPAC bibliographic record (e.g., publication date, summary, location, availability). _____ 3. Login to the OPAC remotely via username and password (e.g., login to the OPAC from the classroom or from home). _____ 4. Access OPACs from other libraries via the Internet (e.g., public library catalog).
 * __ TECHNOLOGY LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs provide technology literacy skills instruction in the use of library-based technologies. **
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Use the online public access catalog to locate school library materials for classroom assignments and personal interests. //

_____ 1. Recognize that some Web information requires special software for its use (e.g., discuss what plug-ins are and how they expand the use of the Internet). _____ 2. Search a student-selected online directory or search engine by subject, keyword, author, title, date or format. _____ 3. Use Boolean operators in the search process (e.g., use Boolean logic to expand a search and to limit a search “AND,” “NOT”). _____ 4. Compare information found in searches done on different types of Internet resources (e.g., meta engine, directory, search engine). _____ 5. Report elements of a Web site that make it effective (e.g., describe why the Web site is appropriate for the particular information needed).
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Develop search strategies, retrieve information in a variety of formats and evaluate the quality and appropriate use of Internet resources. //

_____ 1. Compare search results through the use of different keywords (e.g., search for conservation information using “garbage” and search again using “waste disposal”). _____ 2. Examine information in different types of subscription (fee-based) databases to locate information for a curricular need (e.g., online encyclopedia, online subject dictionaries, magazine index, picture archive).
 * // Benchmark C: //**// Select, access and use appropriate electronic resources for a defined information need. //


 * __ MEDIA LITERACY __**** —Effective school library media programs support the learning of media literacy skills in collaboration with classroom teachers, technology integration specialists and technology coordinators. **

_____ 1. Analyze the adequacy and accuracy of facts and details in media communications directed toward specific listeners, viewers and one’s self. _____ 2. Analyze how multimedia practices shape and alter personal perceptions and viewpoints of specific listeners and viewers, and the degree of impact. _____ 3. Recognize fallacious reasoning, misleading concepts, persuasive hype, bias and stereotyping found in the construction and delivery of specific media created by students and by others. _____ 4. Classify reasons for the communication and delivery of information by individuals, groups, businesses and organizations.
 * // Benchmark A: //**// Comprehend that media communications deliver information and messages to a specific audience for a specific purpose, and analyze the intended impact of media communications and messages when delivered and received by a specific audience. //

_____ 1. Compare and contrast the various physical combinations of media components, production techniques and medium formats utilized in the construction of media communications for specific audiences (e.g., visual design, text structures, language choice, sound and motion, and production special effects). _____ 2. Analyze information found in graphic representations to see if it is aligned with the original intent of the author, artist or producer.
 * // Benchmark B: //**// Analyze various combinations of media components and production techniques used to create and construct media communications for specific audiences and purposes. //