Information Literacy Resources for Faculty: Lesson Plans and Assigments

• Practical ways to recognize and fight fake news

             Lesson plan with 2 activities focusing on identifying fake news and placing sources on a spectrum of bias.

• Information Lifecycle

            Teaches students to recognize  how information is produced and changed over time.

• Transforming a failed search

            Teaches students to recognize issues with a search and change their terms to achieve better results.

• Why we research: Using crime scene investigation as an analogy for scholarly inquiry

             Encourages students to see themselves as investigators when conducting research.

• Information literacy and critical thinking

            Asks students to read framework for information literacy and apply it.

• Evaluating Internet Sources: Climate Change

             A piece of a full lesson piece of a full lesson on evaluating internet resources by Christy Moran

• Scholarly Article Autopsy

            A worksheet with questions that encourages students to examine a scholarly article

• The Un-research project

             Project that ask students to complete activities without using sources. This activity attempts to break the satisficing habit in students.

• Appropriation in student writing

            This chapter includes 2 activities listed below. Scroll down to page 274 to see the assignments.

             - Reference mapping

             - academic writing as a conversation

• The I-Search paper

            Asks students to reflect on their search and learning process during a research project