
Understanding Government Information
A Teaching Strategy Toolkit for Grades 7â12
- 284 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Understanding Government Information
A Teaching Strategy Toolkit for Grades 7â12
About this book
This book demonstrates how government information can be used to engage students through inquiry and project-based activities, thereby providing opportunities for creative investigation and discovery. Many government agencies and institutions provide educators with curricula, lesson plans, data, and directionâall of it free. But to access this largely hidden world of government information, one needs an understanding of how this government information is organized and knowledge about how to best utilize the finding aids, databases, and other search mechanisms to help guide effective research. This guidebook shows you how to locate high-quality, effective lesson plans developed by the nation's best educators, access reliable government data, and find curated lists of free government sources that are theme-based and reference national standards in social studies and health. Understanding Government Information: A Teaching Strategy Toolkit for Grades 7â12 is ideal for middle school and high school librarians and teachers in all subject areas, public youth services librarians, as well as parents teaching their students in home school based programs. You'll learn how to access expert-developed lesson plans, documents, images, and other primary sources along with suggested activities. The book also includes a teacher toolkit that details strategies for lessons and student activities that can be used across the curriculum.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Icons
- Introduction
- 1Â Â Â Getting Geeky with Government Information
- 2Â Â Â Tools of the Trade: Toolkit
- 3Â Â Â Design Ideas: Classroom Strategies
- 4Â Â Â Blueprint: Agencies and Institutions
- Images Cited
- Index
- About the Author