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1.    Using Tattooing to Teach Boolean Searching - Provides a library instruction lesson plan that details how to teach students about Boolean searching using tattooing as an example.  Designed for college undergraduates but probably useable for high school students as well.

2.   Encouraging Community in Library Instruction: A Jigsaw Experiment in a University Library Skills Classroom - Description of a jigsaw active learning activity used for library instruction.  Designed for college undergraduates but probably useable for high school students as well.

3.   Several Ideas to Help 4th Grade Students Learn About the Library - Ideas from a 4th Grade teacher.  Includes several assignments she gives her students.

4.  Using Weird News to Teach About Verifying Information on the Web - Lesson that uses strange news to challenge students to think about what they find online.  Geared towards college undergraduates but probably useable with high school students.

5.  How Parents of Home Schooled Students Can Get Their Children to Use the Library -  Describes lessons and activities that can help home schooled children learn to use the local public library.

6.  Using Joeant to Teach Students About Evaluating Web Resources - Describes a lesson and assignment that teaches students how to evaluate the Web by submitting sites to a volunteer Web directory.

7.  Copyright Basics - This lesson plan is a PowerPoint presentation the covers the basics of copyright law in the USA.  Useable for students at any level.

8.  Plagiarism - This lesson plan is a PowerPoint presentation the covers plagiarism, what is is, how easy it is to cheat with the Web, and how faculty bust it.  Geared towards high school and college students.

9.  Learn the Library - This PowerPoint tutorial is designed to teach elementary school students how to use a school library media center.

10.    "Remember the Gin and Tonic!" : Using Alcohol to Teach Boolean Searching - A lesson plan that uses alcohol examples and drink mixing to teach Boolean searching skills.  Not appropriate for school aged students and should be used with caution with college students.

11.  Scholarly Articles vs. Popular Articles -  This is a PowerPoint presentation designed to teach the difference between magazines and journals.

12.  How to Find Information in the Information Age - This unit of study will ask students to become familiar with the Dewey Decimal System, the many different sources of information available in libraries, and how technology can be used in the research process. It will utilize web links to teach the way information is organized in a library and how students can find the data that they need for reports or just to satisfy a curiosity. 

13.  German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest - This lesson plan uses German immigration to the USA as a method for teaching information literacy skills, primary sources, and Web evaluation skills.  It is geared towards secondary students.

14.  When Work is Done - Teaches about primary sources using photographs to compile an album of early 20th Century American leisure life. It is geared towards high school students.

15. Teaching Internet Library Instruction Sessions in the Electronic Classroom: The Adult Learner, the Internet, and Training Skills & Teaching Styles - The title describes this lesson very well. 

16.  Dwight Rich Orientation - This is a PowerPoint slide show used to introduce a school library media center to patrons.

17.  Using IllumiRate to Teach Students About Evaluating Web Resources - Lesson which uses the web directory Illumirate to teach students about web evaluation skills. 

18.  Preparing To Search The Internet -  This is a PowerPoint presentation by Carol Kotsch.  Itis geared towards 6th to 8th graders.

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