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We prepared active learning activities, lesson plans and materials for interdisciplinary recitation sections. These lessons were intended to be delivered by recitation faculty and/or TAs. The activities were meant to reinforce the content delivered in the large lecture session. The Information Scavenger Hunt exercise aimed to give the students hands-on experience developing search strategies in databases and reinforce learning about peer-review and popular versus scholarly information. Students, working in small groups, were asked to use [institution library] website to find a Scientific American article, Along the Graphene Trail. They then followed a number of steps that allowed them to find the article on and explore various features of the Web of Science database. They then compared Web of Science search strategies and results with those of other databases commonly used in the sciences, including PubMed, MathSciNet, Reaxys, Inspec, and Google Scholar. The recitation instructors led conversations on peer-review and the nature of scientific information as the students progressed through the exercise. See the provided [handout][1] for the steps of the scavenger hunt. [1]: https://osf.io/5cms8/
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