Inquiry+Skill+and+Standards


 * Inquiry Skill and Standards**

2.1.1 Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health. 2.5.1 Identify situations when a health-related decision is needed. 2.3.1 Connect understanding to the real world. 3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts
 * 2nd Grade: Curriculum**
 * 2nd Grade: 21st Century Learners**

Communication in the Pathways to Knowledge Model is the stage where learners present their knowledge to others in an appropriate format. The second graders will be working in pairs to find or create a recipe to satisfy a need in their own diets then sharing the recipe with the class. The format of a recipe, while in most cases will be copied from another source, doesn't require a great amount of writing ( a good thing especially in early second grade since handwriting and keyboarding skills are not developed yet in most students). The hard work of the lesson is analyzing their diet for missing elements and finding and evaluating a snack recipe that fills the specific need. Communicating what they have learned through a recipe card is much more fun than writing a report, and a recipe can be shared and made by their friends and family. This communication format is a fun and authentic, real-world application for a second grader to use, hopefully setting the stage for communication to be a part of all learning, school or personal.
 * 2nd Grade Inquiry Skill:** Communication

6.1.1 Compare how healthy behaviors and personal health are linked. 6.1.7 Identify the benefits of practicing healthy behaviors. 6.8.1 State a health position and support it with accurate information. 6.8.2 Show how to support others to make positive health choices. 1.1.7 Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, ...conflicting information... and bias. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use and assess. 3.3.5 Contribute to the exchange of ideas within and beyond the learning community.
 * 6th Grade: Curriculum**
 * 6th Grade: 21st Century Learners**

Search in the Pathways to Knowledge Model is stage where learner identifies resources, plans and collects information to address information needs. Typically students identify print and electronic resources with ease. 6th graders are proficient enough at finding these resources that they don't consider humans. The topic of nutrition and the affects on adolescent systems is specific enough that print and digital resources would be more of a challenge to locate. This provides a good opportunity to explore an underused human resource as well as a chance to develop interviewing and listening skills. Pappas describes important benefits of having guest speakers come to a school for an inquiry project as a "two-fold reward" (Pappas, 2002). The students have an opportunity to interact with experts, primary resources, while the expert experiences and exchanges ideas with students actively engaged in learning. This lesson will help students mature in their information search skills. Students at this age have been listening and taking notes during teacher lessons and may be quite adept, but in most classrooms, this is a one-way exchange of information. Since students will have formed questions and done some research, they will be able to ask questions to clarify, corroborate, or even challenge what they have discovered before the speaker presents.
 * 6th Grade Inquiry Skill:** Search

Guest speakers at a school media center are usually authors. Authors are a wonderful human resource for students to learn from. I think library media specialists can help reinforce their role of as supporters of the curriculum by involving many other human community resources.

Pappas, Marjorie L. and Ann E. Tepe. Pathways to Knowledge and Inquiry Learning. Information Literacy Series. Greenwood Village: Libraries Unlimited, 2002. Print.