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Lesson Plans by Topic

Preparing for Research

• Develop Japanese research strategy, narrowing/boarding research topics and selecting/refining search terms

  Lesson Plan 1, Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 3, Lesson Plan 14

• Identifying and distinguishing among types of materials

  Primary/Secondary/Grey literature: Lesson Plan 4, Lesson Plan 5, Lesson Plan 14
  Popular/Scholarly/Special Journals: Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 5

• Finding Tools

  Lesson Plan 17

Finding Tools

• Overview of different types of databases

  Overview of different types of tools: Lesson Plan 9, Lesson Plan 11

• Recognizing features of reference tools

  Bibliography or Journal index with full text: Lesson Plan 3
  Periodical Index databases: Lesson Plan 5, Lesson Plan 6, Lesson Plan 15
  Statistics, Dictionary databases: Lesson Plan 9

Full text literature databases: Lesson Plan 13

• Selecting appropriate tools, depending on types of materials

  Journal Articles, or Newspaper Articles: Lesson Plan 7
  Books, Newspapers Articles, or Journal Articles: Lesson Plan 10, Lesson Plan 17
  Books, or Journal Articles: Lesson Plan 8
  Primary Sources, or Secondary Sources: Lesson Plan 4, Lesson Plan 14
  Scholarly Journals, or Popular Journals:Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 5, Lesson Plan 12

Searching Library Online Catalog

• Constructing an effective search in Japanese

  Japanese Library OPAC: Lesson Plan 8, Lesson Plan 10
  Boolean Operation: Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 10
  Romanization: Lesson Plan 5, Lesson Plan 7
  Word Division: Lesson Plan 6, Lesson Plan 5, Lesson Plan 8
  Advanced Search: Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 4, Lesson Plan 8
  Japanese Name Search: Lesson Plan 12

Searching the Web

• Evaluating and selecting Japanese Web sources

  Lesson Plan 9, Lesson Plan 14, Lesson Plan 16

Interlibrary Loan

• Using ILL Services

  Lesson Plan 2, Lesson Plan 6, Lesson Plan 7, Lesson Plan 8, Lesson Plan 11