World War II Poster Project Learning Objectives Mapped to Middle States
Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
Phases in the Process of Teaching Information Literacy
MSCHE Phase Selected Details of Phase Integration into WW2 Poster
Project
Phase 1: Preparing At beginning of class, provide a During Session 2, instructors
Students for an clear presentation of: provide overview of project and
- what students will learn in
Information intended outcome.
Literacy the course
- how information literacy
Experience
relates to those learning
goals
Phase 2: Teaching Address basic principles of finding In-class exercise during Session 2
Students to Find and evaluating sources. Can be using personal response systems to
and Evaluate addressed via formal lectures, discuss basics of finding and
Sources discussion sections, library visits, evaluating sources.
writing workshops, computer labs,
or classroom management systems. Selected topics included:
- Understanding citations
- Finding materials in a
university library
- Inter-library loan
-
Phase 3: Teaching In class during Session 2, students
Framing the research
Students to begin to work in pairs to frame their
question
-
Evaluate and individual research questions and
Identify and access
Understand strategies.
information sources
-
Content Evaluate the information
- Throughout project: Students work
Use the information
to identify, access, and evaluation
affectively to accomplish a
information sources.
specific purpose.
Phase 4: “Students gain critical insights about Students write papers to place
Producing New information literacy through their posters within historical context,
Information own production of information make connections between poster
which is likely to be the result of and broader World War II
some form of active learning experience, and draw connections
opportunities.” between posters and current events.
In class: students create a digital
library with surrogate images of
posters and data related to posters.
World War II Poster Project David Del Testa, Ph.D. History
www.paperandpixels.org Abby Clobridge, M.S. Library Science