2.1.2

=**Indicator 2.1.2: Organize knowledge so that it's useful.**=


 * 1. What does it look like when the indicator is met? What will you observe students doing?**


 * Some of the things students might be doing to show mastery of this indicator include:**
 * =====Comparing and contrasting Web sites, print materials and other media and determining which information is most reliable, accurate, fair, balanced, relevant, and appropriate for the intended audience=====
 * Taking notes from a variety of those reliable sources and organizing them into an outline for a project
 * Using Thinking Maps or other graphic organizers to organizing information visually
 * Analyzing and synthesizing sources to create a new product that can be shared with others


 * 2. How will you help students to meet this indicator? What will you have done?**

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For example, in the 4th grade social studies unit from the NC Standard Course of Study that discusses North Carolina's traditional art forms, the librarian could talk with students about what culture means and explore how it's expressed through art. Then the class could be divided into three groups for the state's three geographical regions – mountains, Piedmont, and coastal plain – and each would do research on their region and develop some kind of visual project that could be shared with the class to help everyone develop a better understanding of why the traditional arts and culture of North Carolina vary from place to place.=====