Web Resources for Teaching the 7-12 Core
Information Literacy
Big6™
The Big6™ is the most widely-known and -used approach to teaching
information and technology skills in the world. Used in thousands of K-12
schools the Big6™ information problem-solving process is applicable
whenever people need and use information.
BIG6™
For Kids
BIG6™ has created an interactive web site designed to help students
learn and use the Big6 Skills for information problem solving. The site,
Big6 Kids, contains helpful hints, templates worksheets, songs, games
and fun to help children master essential information problem solving
skills.
Big6™
Graphics
Download a set of Big6™ graphics in a PDF format.
Miscellaneous Resources
Lexile
Framework Search Form
This form allows you to search the Lexile Database. The Lexile measure
is a number indicating an approximate range of reading difficulty in terms
of the semantic difficulty (vocabulary) and syntactic complexity (sentence
length).
UEN
Virtual Field Trips
The Utah Education Network has developed three virtual tours to help you
with the Library Media Core. These tours are titled "Pioneer, Utah's
Free Online Library, Integrating the Internet, and Pioneer's World Book
Online".
