1. Approach to Information and Communications Technology
Skills, Instructional Unit Design, Aldine ISD, November 8,
2010
Copyright 2010, Barbara A. Jansen. Big6 copyright 1987, Eisenberg & Berkowitz. These materials are
copyrighted. They may not be used for profit or presentation or duplicated for any reason. Permission
granted for use in K-12 classrooms and libraries only.
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Aldine ISD
November 8, 2010
Instructional design
Grades 3 & 4
Presented by Barbara A. Jansen
Chair, 1‐12 Instructional Technology and Library Services
Upper School Librarian
St. Andrew’s School, Austin, TX
Approach to Information and
Communications Technology
Skills Instruction
Agenda
Sharing from 9/3
Strategies for implementation
Instructional design
Sharing
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http://big6tools.pbworks.com/
Big6™ Skills Overview
1. Task Definition
2. Information Seeking
Strategies
3. Location & Access
4. Use of Information
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation
• Each skill has two
subskills:
– The “Little 12”
Information Problem
The George Washington Carver Museum
and Cultural Center in Austin, wants to
expand its Children’s Gallery, Let’s
Pretend Dr. Carver!, of famous African-
Americans to its online space. Due to
limited space, only two notables can be
included. The Board of Directors will hear
proposals on who they should consider for
the exhibit.
“George Washington Carver.”
Courtesy of the Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama; photograph, P.H. Polk .
Accessed Britannica Online, 2010.
Elementary
Big6 #1: Task Definition
Big6 1.1
Whole class: Brainstorming
Learn about a notable African American in order to persuade
the Board of Directors of the George Washington Carver
Museum and Cultural Center to add him or her to the children’s
online exhibit.
Grouping
Why group? Why not?
1. Decide how you will group the kids
1. How many groups (determined by subtopics)
2. How many students in a group?
3. Who will be in each group?
2. Make a list of:
1. informational (fact-oriented) questions to which each
group will need to find “answers” in order to do the
project
2. questions that will require higher-level thinking and
original ideas

2. Approach to Information and Communications Technology
Skills, Instructional Unit Design, Aldine ISD, November 8,
2010
Copyright 2010, Barbara A. Jansen. Big6 copyright 1987, Eisenberg & Berkowitz. These materials are
copyrighted. They may not be used for profit or presentation or duplicated for any reason. Permission
granted for use in K-12 classrooms and libraries only.
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Look-up questions
Background
Is your person known by any other name?
When and where was your person born? When did your person die or is he or she still alive?
What information can you find about his or her family life?
What hardships did your person overcome while growing up?
How was your person educated?
What other things were interesting in your person’s childhood?
Adulthood
What important jobs did your person have as an adult?
What are important events that occurred in your person’s adult life, such as hardships, turning
points, successes, accomplishments?
What important contributions did your person make to our state or country?
Who were/are the influential people in your person’s life?
What other things were interesting or important in your person’s adulthood?
Think-about questions
Why was your person a positive role model (someone others can look up to or model their life
after)?
How did your person influence or impact our lives today?
Your questions for the group may look like this:
Task Definition 1.2
1. Separate class into groups according to the person
they are studying
2. Students brainstorm the information they need to
find “answers” in order to do the project
3. Your list
4. Data chart or other note taking organizer for step #4
Use of Information
5. Higher-level questions:
additional page with space to record their responses.
Question prompts
Different format
Prepare note taking organizer
Student’s
Name
Topic
Back to TNTBack to L&A
Big6 #2: Information Seeking Strategies
LicensedfromCartoonBank.com,2008.
Elementary web evaluation
Diane Lauer, 1999. Used with
permission.
Who wrote the pages and are they
an expert in the field?
What is the purpose of the site?
Where does the information come
from?
When was the site created, updated,
or last worked on?
Why is the information valuable?
Find Resources in Subscription Databases
Why?
TexShare databases
Others Aldine purchases
for elementary

3. Approach to Information and Communications Technology
Skills, Instructional Unit Design, Aldine ISD, November 8,
2010
Copyright 2010, Barbara A. Jansen. Big6 copyright 1987, Eisenberg & Berkowitz. These materials are
copyrighted. They may not be used for profit or presentation or duplicated for any reason. Permission
granted for use in K-12 classrooms and libraries only.
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Big6 #3: Location & Access
Reading for information
Keyword and related word
identification
3.1 Locate sources
Traditional and electronic location skills
3.2 Access information within sources
Table of contents, index, searching within databases etc.
Big6 #4: Use of Information
4.1 Read, engage, hear, view, etc.
4.2 Take out needed information
Citation Machine
Citation
Paraphrase
Types of Note Taking
Stripling, Barbara K. and Pitts, Judy M. Brainstorms and Blueprints: Teaching
Library Research as a Thinking Process. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited,
1988, p. 116. Used with permission.
Summary
Quotation
Treasure Map Analogy
Trash‐n‐treasure note taking
Photocredit:OldShoeWoman.Creative
Commonsattributionlicense.Flickr.com.
Big6 #5: Synthesis
“The notion that young people would
critically and creatively process the
information they find is perhaps the core
of the information search process.”
—Loertscher & Woolls, 1999.

4. Approach to Information and Communications Technology
Skills, Instructional Unit Design, Aldine ISD, November 8,
2010
Copyright 2010, Barbara A. Jansen. Big6 copyright 1987, Eisenberg & Berkowitz. These materials are
copyrighted. They may not be used for profit or presentation or duplicated for any reason. Permission
granted for use in K-12 classrooms and libraries only.
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Cautionary Statement of the Day
Final product should…
Transferable Skills
Image licensed from Cartoonbank.com, 2008.
Photo credit: diadrius. Creative Commons attribution license.
Flickr.com.
Composition
1. Literary forms: Story, poem, myth, fable, tall
tale, limerick, or play about his or her notable
African American including…
2. Information from knowledge level questions
3. Thoughtful responses to
higher-level questions
4. Turn in all notes
and drafts
TAKS Skills
Facts about their topic (included
each time);
Cause and effect relationships;
Problem and solution;
Compare and contrast;
Characters’ opinions;
Logical sequence;
Generalizations; and
Logical conclusions.

5. Approach to Information and Communications Technology
Skills, Instructional Unit Design, Aldine ISD, November 8,
2010
Copyright 2010, Barbara A. Jansen. Big6 copyright 1987, Eisenberg & Berkowitz. These materials are
copyrighted. They may not be used for profit or presentation or duplicated for any reason. Permission
granted for use in K-12 classrooms and libraries only.
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Breaking News…
Big6 #6:
Evaluation
Quote credit: Costa &
Kallick (1992, p. 280)
If Minds Matter.
Photo credit: Pete Prodoehl. Creative Commons attribution
license. Flickr.com.
“Education is what survives when
what has been learned
has been forgotten.”
-B. F. Skinner
bjansen@sasaustin.org
library.sasaustin.org
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