Lesson+Ideas

The key to creative and meaningful lesson plans is to look for the information literacy connection and not limit yourself to lesson plans that are labeled “library skills.” Knowledge of the curriculum is essential. This does not mean that a new media specialist should “know” the curriculum from Day One, but consider it part of your professional development to become familiar with the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) and the GPS Center on the Fulton County web site (http://www.fultonschools.org/fcgps/ ). Start with one content area and one grade level and grow your media program gradually.

Collaborating with other media specialists at the Media Festival, Tech Fair and Showcase of Student Learning events offers opportunites to pick up new and innovative tips on lessons and collborative projects.

Lesson ideas online:

http://www.fultonschools.org/dept/medsvcs/lp_new/all.asp Lesson Plan contributions by Fulton County Media Specialists

http://www.eduscapes.com An excellent, comprehensive site for media specialists. Especially useful are the Literature Ladders, 4 to Explore, and Nature Scapes sections.

http://www.informationliteracy.org/ S.O.S. for Information Literacy – a virtual idea factory for teaching information literacy skills.

http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/libplans.html Resources for School Librarians – a meta-source with multiple links.

http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lessons.html Library lesson plans.

http://www.ala.org/aasl/resources/infolit.html American Association of School Librarians - Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development

http://www.teach-nology.com/ Teachnology. Free and easy to use resources for teachers. Includes 28,000 lesson plans arranged by grade level and content, plus much, much more.

http://thegateway.org/ The Gateway to 21st Century Skills. A massive educational site for teachers that pulls resources from a consortium of Federal, State, University, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.