Instructional Goals:

Students will be able to use pre-selected library resources.

Learning Objectives:

Seventh grade students will be able to identify and extract information from pre-selected library resources to fill out a graphic organizer on 5 Native American cultures. Seventh grade students will be able to successfully write bibliographic citations for all resources used to extract information. Seventh grade students will learn at least 5 new facts about one Native American culture. Seventh grade students will be able to orally present their findings to the class.

Motivational Goals:

Students will feel greater confidence in the research process. Students will be interested in researching Native American cultures.

1.When students enter the LMC, they will see a table displayed with Native American artifacts such as a turquoise and silver bracelet, a woven basket or pictures of other products produced by each of the five cultures represented.

2. Music that reflects one of the five cultures will be playing in the background.

3. A large map of the United States will be hanging on a wall.

4. There will be a pre-selected pile of 4 books in the middle of each table of four students. This will set the mood and be an attention getting device for the lesson.

5. As an anticipatory set, a way to get learners thinking and motivated and a way to show relevance and inspire confidence, the LMS will ask the class to look at the book covers, see what culture the titles relate to and to take a few minutes to discuss amongst their cooperative learning group (table-mates) any prior knowledge they might already have about their culture (They will have already begun studying Native American cultures in their social studies classroom earlier that week).

6.The LMS will then give clear instructional goals, objectives and instructions to class (as stated above) about what learners will be doing for the period.

7. He/she will distribute a Graphic Organizer and Bibliographic Citation Forms to each cooperative learning group.

8. The LMS and social studies teacher will briefly review procedures for bibliographic citation writing and skimming and scanning methods (from a previous lesson) and ask the cooperative learning groups to choose roles between themselves of researcher, writer, bibliographic citation writer and oral presenter.

9. Learners will begin looking through their books to extract information and jot down facts on their graphic organizer. Students will also pick up the artifacts on the display table that relate directly to their assigned culture and bring it back to their group as well as outline the geographical location of their culture on the big map with a colored marker.

10. They will have fifteen minutes to work.

11. When 15 minutes are complete, presenters from each cooperative learning group will tell the class what their group learned about their culture. The remaining class will fill out their graphic organizers on each of culture as they hear the presentations from each cooperative learning group.