National School Library Standards direct School Librarians to go beyond mere documentation rules and teach students the full range of concepts.

In accord with NSL Standards, the No Sweat Library Research Lesson: Learning Intellectual Property and Bibliographic Citation is the perfect starting point for library lessons on Academic Honesty. This lesson uses a positive responsibility approach and gives students a deep conceptual understanding of the legal & ethical issues regarding their research assignments.

Students learn best when content and skills are taught in context, so this lesson integrates the concept of intellectual property with the skills for bibliographic citation.

The lesson begins with a short direct instruction that introduces intellectual property, and follows with a guided hands-on activity to practice bibliographic citation. During independent practice, students can begin their own project with a documentation sheet to record citations for their initial research sources.

This library research skills lesson can be completed in one class period, and is suitable for any middle school subject area.

This product package contains:

• CCSS & NSLS aligned Lesson Plan
• 9-slide Presentation (for PPT & Google Slides)
• PDF Notes for presenter
• Sight-Site-Cite video in .mp4 & .wmv formats
• Differentiation Verbal-Visual slide & worksheet
• 5 PDF sheets with 30 cut-apart resource types for guided activity
• Guided Citation Activity Worksheet (for daily grade!)
• Student Citation of Sources Record Sheet to begin their research

To learn more about how this lesson fits into my positive approach to Academic Honesty, read my blog post: A Better Way for School Librarians to Teach Academic Honesty.

**This package is also part of my No Sweat Academic Honesty Bundle.

© Barbara Paciotti, No Sweat Library