Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in the Sciences (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Take a cyber journey through the world of science! Presenting more than 150 Web sites with primary source documents and authoritative data, this versatile book helps educators guide students on virtual scientific fieldtrips in all areas of science, from astronomy, biology, and chemistry to genetics, physics, and space science. Students can "meet" past and present scientists, follow along on scientific explorations, and learn about scientific conclusions and deductions. Each Web site listing includes a summary with historical background. Lively activities and questions are designed to motivate students to interact with the site, read and analyze the material, and draw their own conclusions. The questions and activities meet the standards set forth by the National Science Teachers Association and are designed to help students build critical thinking skills. Source material includes letters, journals, speeches, and papers. Related Web site suggestions, as well as appendices with additional science sites, periodicals, and organizations are also provided. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship Series helps teachers and librarians enrich the science curriculum and foster critical thinking skills. Instead of relying on paraphrased information, students will learn firsthand about such topics as the Hippocratic oath and the Human Genome Project, making this an essential resource and lesson guide.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Mathematics: (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Evan Glazer
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ASIN: 031331327X

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Mathematics teachers and school library media specialists will find this book a valuable resource for using the Web to promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. It is filled with instructional strategies and an expansive set of activities that cover a broad array of mathematics topics spanning from prealgebra through calculus. Teachers using the questions and activities in this book will help their students meet the standards set forth by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. Various types of mathematics related sources on the Internet are outlined within this book, including data and simulations related to real world situations such as saving funds and computing interest earned for college, purchasing a home, or decoding train and plane schedules. The author develops a framework for critical thinking in mathematics and helps teachers create a supportive classroom environment. Each activity highlights a web source, the mathematics topics involved, the appropriate grade levels of study, possible student investigations, and related web sources for continued exploration, promoting a student-centered inquiry.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)
Pamela J. Eyerdam
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ASIN: 0313315558

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Use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills! This book is based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program, a proven art instruction program that teaches everything from the creative process and art history to criticism and aesthetics. An abundance of primary source Web sites and background information is offered. The main focus of the book is western art history and painting, but examples of sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture are included, along with a chapter on diversity. Part I provides background material. A brief history of art education is presented, followed by a review of the components of design elements and principles. The book describes using the Internet as a primary source by identifying and evaluating websites. Part II follows the program through the main historical periods, from prehistoric and ancient Middle Eastern art, through the Renaissance, through the 20th century. A bibliography and index are included.

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A first-rate and "user friendly" instructional guide.......2003-08-08

Compiled and written by Pamela J. Eyerdam (and part of the Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship Series), Using Internet Primary Sources To Teach Critical Thinking Skills In Visual Arts is a extensive catalogue of excellent web sites which are especially useful for refining a student's critical thinking skills. Based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program (an all-encompassing educational program that covers the creative process, art history, criticism, and aesthetics), Using Internet Primary Sources To Teach Critical Thinking Skills In Visual Arts is a first-rate and "user friendly" instructional guide which is enhanced with guidelines for evaluating and making the best use of suggested sources, and especially recommended as a supplemental resource for traditional classroom educational curriculums and home school curriculum development in the visual arts.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship)
James M. Shiveley , and Phillip J. VanFossen
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ASIN: 0313312834

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Teachers of political science, social studies, and economics, as well as school library media specialists, will find this resource invaluable for incorporating the Internet into their classroom lessons. Over 150 primary source Web sites are referenced and paired with questions and activities designed to encourage critical thinking skills. Completing the activities for the lessons in this book will allow students to evaluate the source of information, the content presented, and it usefulness in the context of their assignments. Along with each Web site, a summary of the site's contents identifies important primary source documents such as constitutions, treaties, speeches, court cases, statistics, and other official documents. The questions and activites invite the students to log on to the Web site, read the information presented, interact with the data, and analyze it critically to answer such questions as: Who created this document? Is the source reliable? How is the information useful and how does it relate to present-day circumstances? If I were in this situation, would I have responded the same way as the person in charge? Strengthening these critical thinking skills will help prepare students for both college and career in the 21st century.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship)
Roxanne M. Kent-Drury
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ASIN: 0313320098

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Presenting web sites from around the world covering much of the world's literature, this book provides creative and interesting thinking activities to enhance student understanding of literature and culture and to promote critical thinking. This book will be very useful to teachers of world history and literature at the senior high school and undergraduate level. Part of a well reviewed series of titles "Using Internet Primary Sources to Promote Critical Thinking" carries on the tradition of excellence in instructional tools. Grades 9-12.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

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Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)
Martha B. Sharma , and Gary S. Elbow
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ASIN: 0313308993

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Geography teachers and school library media specialists will find this resource indispensable for providing classroom lessons and activities in critical thinking for geography students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 75 primary source Internet sites covering such topics as Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society, and the Uses of Geography, and will be an invaluable tool in helping teachers and librarians meet the standards set forth in the 1994 publication Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. Each site is accompanied by a site summary that describes the site contents and usefulness to geography teachers and school library media specialists. Site subjects include: Urban Landscapes, Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Weather, The U.S. Census, and the World Wildlife Fund Global Network. The questions and activities that follow are designed to develop critical thinking skills for both oral and written presentations. An appendix of additional geography resources includes Internet addresses for approximately 25 sites relating to maps, primary sources, and critical thinking. This will provide teachers and librarians with even more resources for developing lessons to help each student meet all 18 of the National Geography Standards.

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History:

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Wonderful Resource for Social Studies Teachers

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History:
Kathleen W. Craver
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ASIN: 0313307490

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History teachers and school library media specialists will find this guide a valuable resource for creating technologically advanced, resource-based instructional units in American and World History in grades 7-12. It is filled with 150 recommended primary source Internet sites about history ranging from ancient civilizations to 1998 and is stocked with exciting, interesting, and challenging questions designed to stimulate students' critical thinking skills. Dr. Craver, who maintains an award-winning interactive Internet database and conducts technology workshops for school library media specialists, provides an indispensable tool to enable students to make the best use of the Internet for the study of history. Each site is accompanied by a summary that describes its contents and usefulness to history teachers and school library media specialists. The questions that follow are designed specifically to stimulate critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are deemed essential for students if they are to succeed academically and economically in the twenty-first century. An annotated appendix of selected primary source databases includes the Internet addresses for 60 additional primary source sites.

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Wonderful Resource for Social Studies Teachers.......2000-09-12

Kathleen Craver does a wonderful job in this book describing how to use primary sources in the classroom. The first three chapters describe the concept behind using these resources in the classroom.

In the next 200 pages, she shares over 150 websites that contain primary sources. For each web site she gives a summary of the site and gives five or six questions for discussion or activities for students. This book will save you hours searching the Internet for resources. It is well written and has a good index for locating topics. If you are looking for ways to incorporate the Internet in your lessons this is a great way to get started.

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Language teachers, social studies teachers, and school library media specialists will find this resource invaluable for providing lessons and activities in critical thinking for students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 200 primary source Internet sites covering the Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Latin languages. Each Web site will help reinforce language skills while providing students with interactive lessons on the unique culture of the peoples who speak the language. The next best thing to visiting the country itself! For each of the 56 primary Web sites, a site summary is given describing its contents and usefulness to teachers and school library media specialists. Site subjects may include: a country's radio or news program; the history of a country and its visual arts, including museums; foods eaten by the people who speak this language and recipes on how to prepare them; ceremonies, customs, and sports enjoyed; geography of the countries who speak this language; and sites to help practice the language itself. Following are a list of questions and activities which students can prepare orally or in written form, and at least four more related Web sites are provided for further study. Using this book will not only help students increase their language skills, but it will also open up the entire culture, to enable students to experience it just as if they were visiting!

Evaluation of primary sources.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review) : An article from: The Australian Library Journal

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Evaluation of primary sources.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review) : An article from: The Australian Library Journal
Helen Dunford
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Library Journal, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Evaluation of primary sources.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review)
Author: Helen Dunford
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
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Thinking critically.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review): An article from: The Australian Library Journal

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Thinking critically.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review): An article from: The Australian Library Journal
Helen Dunford
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Library Journal, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 518 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thinking critically.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review)
Author: Helen Dunford
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
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Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page: 277(1)

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