These lessons are offered cafeteria-style, meaning you can schedule any combination of these lessons, depending on your students' needs and your available class time. Please feel free to schedule multiple library workshops, if you'd like. Instruction requests must be submitted at least four days in advance.
If your class meets in a computer lab classroom or at a satellite campus, we are happy to visit your regular classroom or arrange for livestreaming instruction. In these cases, please contact the Instruction Coordinator directly and include two or three preferred dates, your class meeting time, and location.
This session will help students select a researchable topic for their Project Proposals (and the scaffolded assignments that lead up to the proposals). Students will also begin to develop research questions and select search terms that can help them research their topics.
At the end of the session, students will be able to:
Librarians will use this lesson plan and presentation to teach your workshop. Once your session is scheduled, please let your assigned librarian know if you would like them to alter these materials in any way.
This session will teach students to use various search tools to find information sources for their research. Students will also learn to identify source types and learn more about using search terms to search library databases.
At the end of the session, students will be able to:
Librarians will use this lesson plan and presentation to teach your workshop. Once your session is scheduled, please let your assigned librarian know if you would like them to alter these materials in any way.
Students should watch the Searching for Articles in OneSearch video (below) before this session.
This session will teach students how to identify and evaluate different source types for use in their research. Students will learn to distinguish between source types, fact-check their chosen sources, and recognize their own authority in scholarly conversations.
At the end of the session, students will be able to:
Librarians will use this lesson plan and presentation to teach your workshop. Once your session is scheduled, please let your assigned librarian know if you would like them to alter these materials in any way.
The Guided Research session is meant to give your students an opportunity to learn more about finding sources in library databases. This session will take an entire class period and cannot be combined with any other sessions.
Note: This session is recommended as a second library workshop day--it should be scheduled in addition to previous library instruction workshops. Students should already have topics and be at least a little familiar with search tools. This session is recommended for assignments that require students to find multiple sources on a topic.
At the end of the session, students will be able to:
Librarians will use this lesson plan and presentation to teach your workshop. Once your session is scheduled, please let your assigned librarian know if you would like them to alter these materials in any way.
If your students have not yet watched the Searching for Articles in OneSearch video (below), please assign it to them before the Guided Research session.
