Review knowledge of what information is (what comes into your brain through your senses) and that there are two types of information - recorded and live.
Develop knowledge of numbers and letters, their order and their meaning.
Develop knowledge of categories.
Develop knowledge of the way we learn new things: Search, make and recognize patterns, categorize: Question, Investigate, Describe, Compare, Match, Categorize, Conclude, Report, Reflect.
Develop knowledge of observing and describing: How things are alike, how things are different: color, size, weight, texture, composition (what things are made of), actions: COMPARE.
Develop knowledge of categories of recorded information (Use Dewey categories as examples): We can put like things together and name them: MATCH.
Develop knowledge that we can learn from others: Read and talk to others.
Develop knowledge of authors as creators of recorded information.
Develop knowledge of credit due an author of recorded information for his/her work.
Develop knowledge that we can learn by drawing conclusions, reflecting, and evaluating.
Develop knowledge of the research process: Introduction to QueSPER (The Research Bear): Question, Search, Produce, Evaluate, Reflect.
Develop connection between home and school learning.
Develop knowledge of personal independence and responsibility in using the LMC.
Develop knowledge of computer as a tool to help us learn (parts of computer, beginning programs, CD -ROM encyclopedias, beginning production).
