Fake news and misinformation is everywhere. Learn how to teach elementary students to locate reliable information, evaluate sources, and develop their writing skills in the classroom and in the library. Provides guidelines elementary students can use to evaluate resources for accuracy and credibility; Explains how to teach students not only where to look for information but also how to gather and use that information; Offers lesson plans that build research and note-taking skills; Teaches inquiry as a mode of learning.

Part 1: Real-life research: 1. Research and the brain -- 2. Empowering students -- 3. When meaning drives instruction -- 4. Writing as part of the maker movement -- 5. Library journals -- 6. Research methodology -- 7. Teaching students to be critical evaluators of information -- 8. The presentation -- Part II: Lesson plans -- Index.