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With guidance, explore and identify human, print, online, and multimedia resources.

With guidance, decide which resources best match an identified information need.

With guidance, refine or revise researchable questions based on access to and availability of resources.

Identify, review, and follow the district's Acceptable Use Policy and school-based computer use rules.

With guidance, identify safe and unsafe online practices

Identify the sections of the media center and the attributes of the sources located within each section.

With guidance, use the media center's catalog to locate sources to meet the information need.

Apply knowledge of search strategies to locate relevant sources.

Select print, online, and multimedia sources.

With guidance, evaluate sources based on currency, authority, bias, and relevance to select sources that best meet the information need.

With guidance, use text features effectively to select sources that meet the information need.

With guidance, defend selected sources.

Use keywords and text features that help find information within a specific source.

Explain which strategies (keywords, text features) are used to find information within a specific source.

With guidance, use technology tools to find data/information within a specific source.

Differentiate between fact and opinion within a specific source.

Confirm that the information found within a specific source matches the information need.

With guidance, generate appropriate questions to meet the information need.

With guidance, generate information in an appropriate format (e.g., video or audio recording, notes, graphic organizer, table).

With guidance, exhibit ethical behavior in generating information.

Explain why a specific format is being used to record data/information to meet the information need.

Identify significant characteristics of various organizational formats (e.g., alphabetical; chronological; part to whole; general to specific; main idea and supporting details; compare/contrast; cause and effect; categorizing).

Determine an appropriate format to record and organize data/information.

Use keywords to identify relevant information.

Avoid plagiarism by correctly recording information word for word and keeping track of the source.

Use technology to record and organize data/information.

Explain the purpose of giving credit to sources of information.

Identify and define the components of a citation given the type of source (book; print encyclopedia; online encyclopedia; Web site; database; periodicals).

Create a source list using an accepted citation style.

With guidance, use technology to create a source list in an accepted citation style.

Reflect upon the need to revise research questions and, with guidance, refine research questions based on new information discovered in the inquiry process

Identify the main idea of the recorded information.

Compare recorded information to prior knowledge and make personal connections.

Evaluate recorded information for relevance, completeness, and, with guidance, accuracy and discrepancies.

Check recorded information to ensure the information product will contain data/information from multiple sources.

Find and record missing or additional data/information

Determine whether the recorded data/information is fact or opinion and use it appropriately to meet an information need.

Ethically and accurately summarize and paraphrase the recorded data/information.

With guidance, identify point of view within the recorded data/information.

With guidance, identify and analyze patterns within the recorded data/information to create categories.

With guidance, make connections and inferences using prior knowledge and the recorded data/information.

With guidance, use technology to support critical thinking skills and problem-solving strategies to meet the information need.

Explain why ideas, words, images, music (all forms of data/information) are intellectual property and must be cited in a source list.

With guidance, avoid plagiarism by citing all summarized and paraphrased recorded data/information.

With guidance, identify possible alternative interpretations applicable to the recorded data/information.

With guidance, synthesize the recorded data/information from multiple sources.

Draw conclusions from the recorded data/information to create new understandings.

Reflect and decide on the order in which to organize or present the recorded data/information

Defend the conclusions drawn from the recorded data/information.

With guidance, organize and display findings/conclusions in a variety of formats, including the use of technology.

With guidance, design layouts that communicate content effectively for intended audiences.

With guidance, apply appropriate design criteria, which includes universal design principles, to the content and layout of the information product.

With guidance, use technology to present findings/conclusions in a variety of formats.

With guidance, edit/review/revise/practice the presentation of the information product.

Discuss and apply fair use, copyright laws, and Creative Commons attributions.

Contribute to a learning community.

With guidance, practice digital etiquette when sharing findings and conclusions.

With guidance, credit sources using an appropriate citation format as part of the information product.

With guidance, create and apply criteria for evaluating the information product.

With guidance, use audience feedback and/or peer review to reflect on the information product and the learning experience.

Reflect on the information need and new knowledge.

Respond to a directed reflection on the inquiry process and how to use it more effectively and efficiently.

With guidance, read, listen to, view, and discuss literature that reflects personal interests, provides imagined experiences, and validates individual concerns and real experiences.

Make literature-to-self, literature-to-literature, and literature-to-multimedia connections, and, with guidance, make literature-to-world connections.

Read, listen to, view, and integrate information from non-fiction to enhance comprehension of fiction.

Use literature to answer questions or solve problems.

Use literature to evaluate historical problems, current social events, and personal decisions.

Follow circulation procedures and policies in the library media center and other libraries.

Locate and select literature and/or multimedia in a variety of genres.

Explain the connection between reading, listening, and viewing literature and/or multimedia and being successful in personal and academic pursuits/endeavors.

Defend literature and/or multimedia choices.

With guidance, explain why intellectual freedom is important and how it can be preserved.

With guidance, contribute to a learning community.

With guidance, adopt new technology or methodology to expand personal and academic pursuits/endeavors.