Select the most appropriate and reliable media for accessing information, writing a report, or making a presentation. SPI 0401.7.1

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1. Asking people - develop pupils' skills in gaining information from people, e.g. who to choose, interview skills and questionnaire design.
2. Find it on the internet - introduce pupils to the basic ways of searching for information and how to keep safe on the internet
3. Looking in books - develop pupils' understanding of how different types of books contain specific information, and of the ways in which information is organized in books, including lists of contents, chapter overviews, advance organizers and indexes
4. What Information? - A unit plan: give pupils the skills to be able to decide what they are trying to find out, and how they are going to go about it.

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