1. It’s Never Too Early: Middle School Students & the Academic Library

2. Why Collaborate with an Academic Library Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience Conduct short research projects to answer a question….drawing on several sources and generating additional related focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration

3. Why Collaborate with an Academic Librarian? 21 st Century Skills

4. Why Collaborate with an Academic Librarian?

5. PES Team 8 The Science Assignment Produce a happier, healthier plant!

6. Answer These Questions What does your plant need to live and why does it need this? Why might the variable that you are selecting produce a happy, healthier plant?

7. Big Project, Small Steps www.crlsresearchguide.org

8. Team 8 Preparation at School Key English Concepts: Thesis Statement Outline Parenthetical Citations The Six Traits of Writing-Organization Draft Writing Peer/Teacher Editing “Stick with me and I can get you through this process.”

9. Team 8 Preparation at School Study Skills Note Cards Journals Outlining

10. Study Skills and Mathematics Statistics Line graphs Excel Special attention to interpretation of different graphs

11. The Research Day

12. Show Basic Resources First

13. Tell Us About Your Library Visits! Gerry Gontarz ggontarz@hotmail.comggontarz@hotmail.com Kayla Gontarz kgontarz@pes.sau48.orgkgontarz@pes.sau48.org Kevin Greenler kgreenler@pes.sau48.orgkgreenler@pes.sau48.org Anne Marie Jung amjung@plymouth.eduamjung@plymouth.edu Paula Tanner ptanner@pes.sau48.orgptanner@pes.sau48.org