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Introduction
Notes to Library Media Specialists
FINDS Documents
Research Process Model, Student Tasks/Skills Chart - both in pdf format
Forms
Forms and worksheets for use when planning with the FINDS model - individual files or all 5 documents (pdf or Word format)
Teaching Students to Use Finds
FINDS Resources
CCRO, DDRO, poster, other handouts - all in pdf format
FINDS Online Resources
Resources for each area of the FINDS model - Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, Score
Related Links
° American Association of School Librarians Resource Guides
° Partnership for 21st Century Skills
 
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An Introduction to FINDS: Florida Research Model

The Florida Curriculum Framework for Language Arts says,

"Students must learn how to locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, manage, and apply information from a variety of sources and media. They must learn how to communicate effectively in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes through many different media."

Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning provides guidelines that schools "can use to foster the active, authentic learning that today's researchers and practitioners recognize as vital to helping students become independent, information literate, lifelong learners."  

Integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum is accomplished not through a separate course of study, but by incorporating these skills into all curriculum areas. Specifically, information literacy skills should be integrated into the student's first introduction to the library media center in preschool or kindergarten and continue through twelfth grade and beyond.

By working together to craft lessons, school library media specialists and teachers combine reading and writing skills, the basic tools of learning, with information literacy skills. Using this approach, students are better prepared to extend and communicate their content area knowledge. In order to facilitate the acquisition of information literacy skills, the use of a research process model is essential. FINDS, Florida's model, consolidates the information literacy skills that are imbedded in the Sunshine State Standards and provides a framework for the application of these standards through a sequential research process.

By making use of a wide range of learning resources and the collaborative efforts of the classroom teacher and library media specialist, students learn information literacy skills that are applicable across disciplines. Consequently, students acquire the attitudes and competencies needed to function successfully in this demanding, information-intense world.
         
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