Topic 1
LJHS LMC Integrated Curriculum
“Discovering the best way to find or create information”
Orientation to LMC - rules, layout, similarities to other lmcs
Orientation to Spectrum card catalog database
Orientation to LMC home page and its uses
Orientation to the MARVEL! databases
Search strategy (What do you need? Best approach, etc)
Pathfinders - research guides - bibliographies
Types of fiction
Author awareness
Compare and contrast information sources
Access to different formats of media:
Use of technologies needed
Student production
Reference resources:
General and subject specific Primary and secondary sources
Encyclopedias and almanacs Relationship to non-fiction
Card catalog database Databases and indexes
Atlases Systematic Internet searching
Telephone / e-mail
Works cited / bibliography format
How to photocopy effectively and selectively
How to browse effectively (books, magazines, lists, etc)
TV studio awareness:
how it works (technical overview)
organization, teamwork involved in a production, career awareness
storyboards
speaking skills, student productions
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Learning Results:
Library - Media - Information Skills are integrated within all other disciplines, as seen throughout the Learning Results (with specific mention to these skills covered on the inside back page of the Learning Results document entitled: Academic and Personal Skills Across Disciplines).