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Your name: Mary Kelly Date: February 20, 2012 Lesson Title: Evaluation Bibliographies Grade level: 5th Grade Cooperating teacher-librarian: Linda Diekman School & City: Glenview Length of lesson: 2-60 minutes

Purpose: As the fifth graders at Glen Grove are wrapping up their Revolutionary War paper, I will instruct them on the correct format for a MLA bibliography. Learning Outcome(s): Students will learn how to create a bibliography for their Revolutionary War research papers using citationmachine.net and how to correctly format their bibliography. They will also have an opportunity to evaluate a peers bibliography for correct formatting, currency and authoritative sources. Standards Common Core Standards for Math and English:
CC.5.W.7 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

Illinois Learning Standard(s) Addressed: 5.B.4b Use multiple sources and multiple formats; cite according to standard style manuals. Standards for 21st Century Learner Addressed: 1.3.1 Respect copyright/intellectual property rights of creators and producers. 1.3.3 Follow ethical and legal guidelines in gathering and using information. Materials: Needed by you: Needed by students: Computer computer Document camera pencils Example of incorrect bibliography bibliography sheets Evaluating bibliography worksheet

Instructional procedures: Focusing event: Over the next two days, we will have to opportunity to complete the bibliography that you have to include in your Revolutionary War paper. Input from you: During the first lesson, we will discuss why you need to create a bibliography. I will give a brief introduction to MLA citation style and discuss the importance of correctly formatting a bibliography. I will also discuss the rubric by which their bibliography will be graded. Students will understand that they have to correctly format their bibliographies, their sources should be reliable and authoritative, and that the information they use should be current (within ten years). I will define authoritative and discuss what makes a source or author reliable. I will introduce the students to the website citationmachine.net and explain that they will transfer the information from the bibliography
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sheets that they filled out for every source they used into citationmachine.net. At the end of the lesson the students will print out the first draft of their bibliography. During the second lesson the students will have the opportunity to evaluate and correct a classmates bibliography. The students will then get their own bibliography back and make all necessary revisions. Guided practice: During lesson one, I will model how to input data into citation machine using the bibliography sheets I created. During lesson two, I will pass out the bibliography I created that has five errors. The students will have about five minutes to look over the bibliography and identify and correct the mistakes they find. Next, I will use the document camera to project the error filled bibliography and ask the class share what errors they found and how we should correct them. We will also discuss the currency and reliability of the sources included in my mock bibliography. I will then randomly pass out the bibliographies the students created during lesson one and ask the students to evaluate their classmates work and make necessary corrections. As they look over their classmates bibliography they will also fill in the bibliography checklist.

Closure I will end the lesson by asking them to save their work to their network folders and

Check for understanding: Why do we need to include bibliographies in our research? What does authoritative mean? Why is it important to include current (10 years or less) sources in your research)? Whats next? Students will save their bibliographies to their network files and print them out to hand in with their papers when they are due.

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