Ultimately, what you teach will be collaboration between you and your faculty. Students know the task or know the requirements of the assignment. Students know that they must work within a specified timeframe. Students broaden a narrow topic, or narrow a broad topic. Students modify the scope or direction of a question.
Students know a librarian can assist in forming a focus.
Students list what they already know about a topic. They then list the questions they still have about the topic that are most interesting to them. Students know that searching is a process. Students Identify keywords and related terms. Students can put terms and ideas together using Boolean logic to construct an effective and efficient search.