This resourch will help your students to practice use with Culture Grams in the Utah Online Library. This will help them build a foundation of what they need to have to use the resource effectively through completing a variety of tasks.
Kayla Towner gives a quick guide to using Culture Grams, which provides reliable and up-to-date cultural content. This is a great research tool in Utah's Online Library.
This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, CultureGrams to help students learn about World Languages.
This is the first step in a series of lessons that would ultimately lead to the creation of a travel guide video. Students will be researching a country's dominant culture using the Utah Online School Libraries' access to CultureGrams.Image from Pixabay, accessed 2/18/2022.
UEN has created mini lessons for students. These lesson will teach students how to use the resources in Utah's Online Library. These are all self-paced lessons that are less than 60 minutes in length. These are great for teachers who want to import them into their Canvas course. They can also be used as a substitute teacher lesson plan.
These lessons are available in Canvas Commons under the UEN-K12 consortium. You will find this consortium under Canvas Commons using the Filter UEN-K12. Once you have selected the UEN-K12 consortium search for "uen library lesson". These resources include: CultureGrams High School, CultureGrams Middle School, CultureGrams Elementary, World Book Online, Gale Research in Context, Gale, Reference Collection Secondary, LearningExpress Library, Soundzabound, eMedia, EBSCO.
These lessons are only available for Utah teachers with a district/charter school Canvas account.
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This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Culturegrams to help students learn about other countries and cultures.