Information Skills:

9-week Course – 8^th Grade

Course description:

Information skills are those skills that prepare students to gather, process, use, and communicate information. These skills enable students to become lifelong learners, informed decision makers, assist students in attaining the ability to manage and use information in various formats, and help students find information appropriate to their academic or personal needs.

Throughout the course, students will explore available information resources (print and online encyclopedias, databases, dashboard widgets, and search engines) and develop an understanding of how to use those resources to meet different information needs. Students will develop their ability to express their information needs (verbally and through the use of search strings including Boolean operators), to find accurate and appropriate information (evaluating sources), to analyze and evaluate information, and to use that information (paraphrasing info. onto note cards and then organizing the information), and creating a final product to communicate the information.