Assignment
The Sorting Machine
Short Description:
A classroom activity and lesson plan for first-year students. Your students will learn to differentiate between different categories of items -- such as Popular/Scholarly, or Primary/Secondary/Tertiary -- by playing this fun and easy game.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
• Correctly categorize library items.
• Describe the different role that each category plays in the research process.
• Discuss how particular items could be used in the research process, in the context of each item’s category.
Information Literacy concepts:
Individual or Group:
Ability Level:
Suggested Citation:
Catlin, Peter. "The Sorting Machine." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/sorting-machine.All assignments contributed to this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike United States License