Teaching & Learning: Information Cycle & Source Types
The Teaching & Learning Guide provides information to help you with your needs as an instructor including class materials, statistics and assessment information, important reminders, and readings and resources.
Activity asking students to explore multiple kinds of sources and classify them into groups.
There are many excellent ways to teach source types, some very active and others with examples of different source types. Be aware of how much time your activity will take.
Here's how UW Librarians are using this lesson objective
In-class activity using a Google Doc to check for understanding of video tutorial viewed before the workshop and get on the same page about scholarly journal articles.
When do I teach the Information Cycle & Source Types?
It's important to teach types of source when:
Students are not familiar with academic/scholarly sources
Students are asked to use specific types of sources OR