Access, Evaluate, Use: Information Literacy in High School  PowerPoint slides from our presentation.

westlib.news  A library newsletter that gives general information about our library program, an introduction to information literacy and collaboration, and a list of our 9 information literacy benchmarks for high school students.

Planner  Our collaborative planning form.  We record descriptive and logistical information about each collaborative unit, and use the checkboxes to indicate standards, benchmarks, information literacy model components, and research and production tools addressed or used in the unit.  This info is entered into our collaboration database to help us document and track the integration and sequencing of our Information Literacy activities.

Day 1 Activity  Students complete this activity as part of their review of searching and navigating in EBSCOhost.

Day 2 Activity  Students complete this activity after reviewing the 5 evaluative criteria.  This activity must be accompanied by the following Citations sheet.

Day 2 Citations  Students analyze the citations on this page to complete the Day 2 Activity.

Day 3 Activity  Students navigate and search SIRS to complete this activity.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment This handout describes what an annotated bibliography is and what the students need to include in their annotations.  A sample is on the second page.

Annotated Bibliography Checklist  We used this checklist as we assessed the students' annotated bibliographies--the citations, the contents of the annotations, and the writing.