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

With guidance, select resources based on subject, advantages and disadvantages of various formats, availability and ease of access, and the 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.

Apply safe practices for both assignment-related and personal online searches.

With guidance, apply knowledge of catalogs, call numbers, pathfinders, links, and organizational structures (search strategies unique to various search engines and databases) to locate relevant sources.

Choose a citation style appropriate to the subject for a preliminary source list.

Select and record potential sources of print, online and multimedia resources and their locations.

Evaluate sources based on currency, authority, reliability, bias, point of view and relevance to select sources that best meet the information need.

Use text features effectively to select sources that meet the information need

Defend selected sources.

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

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

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 effective criteria for observations and questions for interviews and surveys.

Generate information in an appropriate format (video or audio recording, notes, table, spreadsheet, graphic organizer).

Exhibit intellectual integrity and ethical behavior in generating information.

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

Select and use an appropriate format (e.g., alphabetical, chronological, part to whole, general to specific, main idea and supporting details, compare/contrast, cause and effect, categorizing, data table) to record and organize data/information.

Defend a format for organizing data/information.

Use keywords to identify relevant information.

Avoid plagiarism by correctly recording direct quotations and keeping track of sources used.

Avoid plagiarism by correctly citing information sources using an accepted style.

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.

Use technology to create a source list in an accepted citation style.

Reflect on and refine research questions, theses, hypotheses, or positions 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 and analyze recorded information for relevance, completeness, accuracy, and discrepancies.

Analyze recorded data/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 and bias within the recorded data/information.

Identify and analyze patterns within the recorded data/information to create categories.

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.

Avoid plagiarism by citing all summarized and paraphrased recorded data/information.

Identify possible alternative interpretations applicable to the recorded data/information.

Synthesize recorded data/information from multiple sources.

Draw conclusions from the recorded data/information to create and articulate 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.

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

Design layouts that communicate content effectively for intended audiences.

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

Use technology to present findings/conclusions in a variety of formats.

Edit/review/revise/practice the presentation of the information product.

Apply fair use, copyright laws, and Creative Commons attributions.

Contribute to a learning community.

Practice digital etiquette when sharing findings and conclusions.

Credit sources using an appropriate citation format as part of the information product.

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

Use audience feedback and/or peer review to reflect on the information product and the learning process.

Reflect on the information need, new knowledge, and the need for additional information.

Reflect on the inquiry process and how to use it more effectively and efficiently.

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, literature-to-multimedia, and literature-to-world connections.

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

Use literature to answer questions, make decisions, 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.

Explain why intellectual freedom is important and how it can be preserved.

Contribute to a learning community.

Adopt new technology or methodology to expand personal and academic pursuits/endeavors.