In the next month or so first and second graders will be learning how to use an Atlas, Dictionary, Glossary and Encylopedia.   

I have also been teaching a research lesson to third, fourth, and fifth grades. In the lesson we cover what books to use in the Media Center for research (reference books and non-fiction books) as well as online reference sources to use including kid-friendly search engines, the online catalog, reference sites and fact sites. We also learn how to decide if a website is good to use or not by evaluating it, and why it is important to evaluate a website. We addressed biographies for third grade and Washington State for fourth grade.

 This is a handout that I also gave out to the third, fourth, and fifth grade classes that included information and websites covered in the research lessons.