What's the price?

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Mathematics
• K-12: Technology
• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 3rd-4th Grade

Description:

This 1 hour lesson is presented as a collaborative effort between the SLMS and the math teacher. In this lesson, students will search the website Dealtime.com to find the lowest price of a book. By the end of the lesson, students will have learned how to use a price-comparison tool, find differences in the cost of books in different formats, calculate differences in prices, and brainstorm reasons that a book might have several different prices.

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Recognizes that accurate and comprehensive information is the basis for intelligent decision making.

Participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

• Shares knowledge and information with others.

Information Skills and Subskills (K-16)

Definition

• Identifies requirements of research task
• Determines amount/type of information needed to complete research task

Selection

• Specifies subtopics or related keywords

Planning

• Creates a general framework for organizing information found
• Identifies potential formats for presenting results

Exploration

• Uses indexes and search engines
• Locates and accesses information resources

Collection

• Skims/scans information sources
• Locates relevant information within selected sources
• Identifies and extracts relevant information from selected sources
• Evaluates quality of information and information source
• Recognizes when sufficient information has been obtained

Organization

• Analyzes quality of information
• Summarizes/synthesizes/classifies final information
• Organizes final information for presentation

Presentation

• Assembles organized information for presentation
• Presents results

Evaluation

• Evaluates end product
• Assesses the efficiency of the research process
• Determines ways to improve future research process and results
• Subject: K-12: Mathematics

National Content Standards (K-12)

• Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process
• Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of numbers
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

Writing

• Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Reading

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Viewing

• Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

Media

• Understands the characteristics and components of the media