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Finding Physical Books, Amber Dierking

Lesson Plans

Topic: How to find physical books in the GVSU libraries

Objectives: Students will feel comfortable and will be successful searching for books on the library website. Students will successfully navigate call numbers, the stacks, check out, and holds.

Suitable Audience: Any classes which make significant use of/requires physical sources. This lesson has been used with Art History classes but could be adapted for others.

Search Engine Activity, Amber Dierking

Lesson Plans

This lesson/activity uses search engines as examples to think critically about information systems.

Objectives: Students will gain a deeper understanding of how search engines function, how those mechanics affect their results, and will consider how and why these differ from searching within library systems.

Concept Mapping Lesson Plan, Kim Ranger

Lesson Plans

Students develop a concept map on a topic of interest. They then identify key terms and search within Google/Wikipedia/GVSU Search to obtain information on the topic. Students develop a second concept map to reflect new knowledge found and compare to the first.