Read Works
Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Genre
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction, identify the characteristics of non-fiction, and use guide words to locate topics in an...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Information Location Mini Lesson
This lesson introduces using the print encyclopedia for grades 3-5. Students are assigned a topic which is selected from their social studies curriculum. Small groups are sent to the reference shelf to select the correct encyclopedia...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Inventors and Inventions Edukit
Both educators and students will find this site on Alberta inventors and inventions most useful.Info sheets, lesson plans, multimedia, invention diagrams, and more are included.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: People of the Boreal Forest
Educators and students will both find this site about the Aboriginal peoples of the boreal forest region most useful. Lesson plans, teacher resources, student information and activities, and much more make up this expansive site.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Health and Wellness: Teacher Zone
This Edukit provides educators with background information, instructional plans and specific outcomes in the area of Aboriginal Health and Wellness. Lessons are separated into two sections--elementary and senior--however, the information...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Spirituality & Creation:teacher Zone
Through a respectful and sensitive manner, this Edukit was designed to help educators bring a knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal Spirituality and Creation to their students. Lessons are divided up into grades 1,3,5,7 and 10-12,...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: World's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource
MathWorld provides a huge mathematics encyclopedia detailing the concepts of geometry, algebra, calculus, discrete math, number theory, and other math topics--complete with formulas, diagrams, examples, and references for thorough...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper
This lesson introduces students to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume reference...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Reference Materials
This lesson discusses using reference materials as research resources.
University of California
Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ready, Set, Research!
Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fishing for Facts!
This lesson will involve a visit to the Library Media Center to research different sea creatures. Using an encyclopedia, students will find two facts about their sea creature. Using the Internet, students will work in small groups to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beginner's Avl (Alabama Virtual Library)
Students will research the red fox using an online encyclopedia from the Alabama Virtual Library web site and answer questions provided by the teacher. This is a good lesson for students' first experience in using the AVL.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: A Nation's Voice
A Nation's Voice is a lesson plan that uses internet sites, magazines and books, electronic encyclopedias and databases to understand the policy making of the U.S.