Media
Weather Lesson
4th
Grade Earth and Space Sciences
Benchmark
D: Analyze weather and changes that occur over a period of time.
Indicator
4
Alignment
of Classroom Benchmarks and Indicators to Library Media Guidelines
The Library
Guidelines listed below are taken from the ODE website and are currently under
review. http://www.ode.state.oh.us/Curriculum-Assessment/school_library/
Media
Literacy.
Information Literacy
Effective
school library media programs provide information literacy skills instruction.
Information
literacy is the ability to locate, process, evaluate,
and utilize information. School library media programs provide information
resources in a variety of formats and readability levels. The school library
media specialist teaches students how to access, use, and evaluate information
resources efficiently and ethically based on academic or personal need. This
instruction should be correlated to specific academic content standards and
taught as an integrated process.
Benchmark
D: Describe types of information: facts, opinions, primary/secondary sources; and
formats of information: number,
text, sound, visual,
multimedia; and use
information for a purpose.
Grade Four
Understanding
Information
1. Collect information
(organized data and facts) and
data (raw facts and figures) and identify answers to questions (e.g., locate data in a
newspaper article, identify information on a sign).
2. Discuss and define the
difference between fact and opinion (e.g., the cafeteria served pizza
today, fact; the pizza was good, opinion).
3. Identify ways information can
be presented (e.g., text, visual information on a map, information
displayed in pictures or as graphics).
Primary/Secondary
Sources
4. Use primary source material to
describe a person, place, thing or event (e.g., oral history, diary
entries, photos, news articles, video files).
Reference
Sources
5. Use the
following reference sources to find information:
a. Dictionary (e.g., keywords, entry, parts of speech,
definition);
b. Encyclopedia (e.g., keywords, entry, charts and graphs);
and
c. Maps (e.g., locate cities, states, countries).
Technology Literacy
Effective
school library media programs provide technological literacy skills instruction
in the
usage of library-based technologies.
Technological
literacy skills include appropriate
and ethical use of technology for information access, retrieval, production,
dissemination via electronic resources networks, and the Internet.
Benchmark B: Use the Internet to find, use and evaluate information.
Grade Four
Beginning
Searching
1. Choose a search engine or
directory specifically designed for students to locate information on the
Internet.
2. Type a simple search term in the
search engine or directory to find facts and answer questions.
3. Read the list of results from
the search engine or directory to locate potential Web sites relevant to the
search topic.
Web Site
Evaluation
4. Choose a Web site and examine
the information for facts by identifying information on the Web site:
a. Author;
b. Title;
c. Date produced;
d. Special features (images, puzzles, activities);
e. Available products, services,
or resources.
Benchmark
C: Understand how to
access technology-based school library materials including
library networks and electronic resources for research.
Grade Four
Electronic
Resources
1. Use library computers and
software (e.g., use menus to select and open programs, controls volume,
follow printing directions).
2. Understand that technology-based
resources may be delivered in a variety of ways (e.g., stand-alone
software, network software, Internet
resources).
3. Demonstrate use of online
fee-based (subscription or pay per use) electronic resources (e.g., state and/or district
provided resources such as magazine databases, encyclopedias, dictionaries).
Media Literacy
Effective
school library media programs support the learning of media literacy skills in
collaboration with classroom teachers, technology integrationists and
coordinators.
Media
literacy encompasses the use of communication competencies and critical
thinking skills, including the ability to access, interpret, evaluate and
communicate information delivered in a variety of medium formats. Media-based
resources include print and non-print materials, that
use image, text, language, sound and motion to convey informational
communications and messages.
Benchmark
A: Comprehend that media
communications deliver information and messages for personal and various other
purposes.
Grade Four
Media
Messages
1. Identify how various medium formats
are chosen to deliver the different types of information for specific media
messages (e.g., print, non-print, electronic, digital).
2. List reasons for the communication
and delivery of information by individuals, groups, businesses and
organizations.
3. Infer and state a media
communication's central idea and function from implicit and explicit clues
found in text and graphic symbol.
Benchmark
B: Examine a variety of
elements and components used to create and construct media
communications for various audiences and for various purposes.
Grade Four
Media Elements
1. Apply
and demonstrate how various
text elements and organizational structures are used to construct and support a
central idea of print and non-print media documents and presentations
(e.g., bold face and italic text fonts, text size, cause and effect,
chronological sequence).
2. Explore the roles of various people
and careers involved in the construction of media communications, messages and
mediums (e.g., director, producer, actor, writer, illustrator,
photographer).
Benchmark
C: Explain the intended
effect of a media communications and messages when delivered and received by
various audiences and for various purposes.
Grade Four
Communicating
With Media
1. Examine
how various elements of print and non-print media formats are used to gain an audience's attention and
garner action and reaction.
2.
Interpret how an author's and/or artist's intent and choice of visual and text components in media
communications and formats appeal to feelings and senses, suggest mood and
meaning, and influence audience understanding.
3. Differentiate between fact and
opinion found in media presentations - oral, visual and written.
4. Distinguish between relevant and
irrelevant information found in a media communications delivered and
received.
Classroom Benchmarks and Indicators Fourth Grade Earth and Space Sciences
Students
demonstrate an understanding about how Earth systems and processes interact in
the geosphere resulting in the habitability of Earth. This includes
demonstrating an understanding of the composition of the universe, the solar
system and Earth. In addition, it
includes understanding the properties and the interconnected nature of Earth's
systems, processes that shape Earth and Earth's history. Students also demonstrate an understanding of
how the concepts and principles of energy, matter, motion and forces explain
Earth systems, the solar system and the universe. Finally, they grasp an understanding of the
historical perspectives, scientific approaches and emerging scientific issues
associated with Earth and space sciences.
Benchmark D: Analyze weather and changes that occur over a period of time.
Grade Four
Earth
Systems
1.Explain
that air surrounds us, takes up space, moves around us as wind, and may be
measured using barometric pressure.
2.Identify
how water exists in the air in different forms (e.g., in clouds, fog, rain,
snow and hail).
3.Investigate
how water changes from one state to another (e.g., freezing, melting,
condensation and evaporation).
4.Describe weather by measurable quantities such
as temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation and barometric
pressure.
5.Record
local weather information on a calendar or map and describe changes over a
period of time (e.g., barometric pressure, temperature, precipitation symbols
and cloud conditions).
6.Trace how
weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
7.Describe
the weather, which accompanies cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus and stratus
clouds.