Curriculum Connection

Curriculum Connection

The applications of the Dr. Lamb’s 8w’s are endless. It is a solid model that escorts students through the inquiry process. In particular the Webbing, Wiggling, and Weaving steps help to make students proficient in Indiana’s Information Literacy Standards from the Indiana Department of Education website, and these are:

The student who is information literate:

accesses information efficiently and effectively.
evaluates information critically and competently.
uses information accurately and creatively.

In meeting these standards through using inquiry models such as Lamb’s 8w’s students from 12th grade Social Studies students will meet Indiana State Standard 12.4.7 which states the student will:

Develop presentations using clear research questions and creative and critical research strategies such as conducting field studies, interview, and experiments; researching oral histories; and using Internet sources.

As well, 8th grade Social Studies students can meet standard 8.1.28 which is:

Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues-Analysis and Decision Making: Recognize historical perspective and evaluate alternative courses of action by describing the historical context in which events unfolded and by avoiding evaluation of the past solely in terms of present-day norms.

Example: Use Internet-based documents and digital archival collections from museums and libraries to compare views of slavery in slave narratives, northern and southern newspapers, and present-day accounts of the era.


http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/index.shtml