Lesson Plan: ENL 110 Information Literacy Class on Flint, MI Water Crisis (Time: 75 minutes)
Objectives:
Welcome/Introduction/Handouts/Computer Setup
Class Question: Who knows what’s happening now in Flint, Michigan?
Activity: Read the News
Class question: What did you find out about what’s happening in Flint?
Point out that from reading many different articles, each person in the class learned something different about Flint.
Explain frequency analysis
Use wordclouds.com to create word cloud of class search terms
Have students identify top 5/largest words in wordcloud
Class question: What would you like to know more about regarding Flint?
Activity: Library Search
Class Question: What did you learn from the database search that enhanced your knowledge about Flint?
Class Question: How does the information you got from the library database differ from the information you got from the news article?
Class Question: Based on the library article you read, what would you search for next? What else do you now want to know more about?
Class Question: How can you use what we’ve covered in class (reading news articles, identifying search terms, finding information in library resources) in other areas of your life?