Grade 5 January Media News

Groupwise Email

All students in room 39 and 41 now have a groupwise email account and practiced using the address book. Almost all of the girls in room 36 also have email accounts and now Room 42, Room 41, and room 36 5th grade books and 4th graders will learn how to use groupwise. Students practice emailing their classroom teacher three things that they learned about their state

STANDARD 4: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and pursues information related to personal interests.
4.1 Uses School Library Media Center and Public Library Resources to Pursue Personal Interests (K1)
4.1.1 Independently selects print, nonprint, and digital resources to satisfy recreational goals and pursuits
4.1.2 Uses telecommunications to communicate with others
4.1.3 Observes proper etiquette for using telecommunications
4.1.4 Uses information and communication technologies for recreational purposes (K1)

Big Six and Information Literacy

All 5th grade students are learning about the fifty states in their classrooms and part of their Social Studies Curriculum.

Thanks to the Internet, the world is an entirely changed place with all the information now available to us. In the good old days, when looking for answers, we could head for the library to read an encyclopedia or check out a few good books. Now, thanks to the Internet, we can tap into knowledge from more than a million sources that changes on a minute-by-minute basis.
A downside of this information swell is that not all of the information we can access is accurate or indeed even relevant to our purpose. We need to be able to separate-out what is useful to us from all the information that is now available! To help New Haven students’ bridge this gap; our district has adopted an Information Literacy model of the Big6 Grade 4-12. Some people call the Big6 an information problem-solving strategy because with the Big6, students are able to handle any problem, assignment, decision or task. Find out more about the Big6 at the website: http://www.big6.com/kids.

Big6 stands for
1. Task Definition (What Do I Need to Know? Facts about the state my teacher assigned Ex: What is the capital? Who is the Governor?)
2. Information Seeking Strategies (What can I use to find it? Use websites, state books 900 section, Almanacs, Encyclopedias, State Fact Cards)
3. Location and Access (Where can I find it? At home, at the library, in my classroom, etc.)
4. Use of Information (What is important? What do I need to answer my questions and what don’t I need?)
5. Synthesis (How will I share what I learned? A class presentation, a state report)
6. Evaluation (Will I change anything the next time I do research such as allow myself more time?)



By learning the Big6 Information Literacy skills, our students will be well equipped to move forward with life-long learning and have the necessary tools to help them find information and solve any problem!

Source:
Teresa Squaglia
Library Media Teacher at Searles