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Dewey Decimal Game

Engage all the upper elementary classes in your school in a game to learn Dewey Decimal Classification. On 5 or 6 consecutive visits to the library, teams from each class learn how the system works, locate books in each category, and...

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Comparing Dewey and the Library of Congress: In What "Class" Are Your "Classes"?

Knowing both the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress Classification systems, and how to read their call numbers, facilitates information literacy, a critical skill for 21st century life. High schoolers, who may be familiar with Dewey,...

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The Dewey Decimal System -- Cataloging Collections

Students categorize their private book collections as a precursor to learning the principles of the Dewey Decimal System. They use the Internet to gain a better understanding of the Dewey Decimal System.

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Understanding Library Skills: The Dewey Decimal System

Cyber Dewey? Dewey Made Fun? Do the Dewey Game? After a librarian-led tour of the school library and an explanation of the Dewey Decimal System, class members use the Internet to access MAGNOLIA, a site with resources devoted to library...

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Get to Know Your Library Media Center

Ninth graders learn to navigate the high school library/media center using a scavenger hunt and practice shelving books with the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Comprehensive modification ideas accompany the resource.

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Comparing Classification Systems

How are resources organized? Students view a tutorial on the Library of Congress Classification System.In pairs, they access a website and complete a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting this system with the Dewey Decimal System.

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Shopping with the Dewey Decimal System

Students examine the categories of the Dewey Decimal System. They categorize various grocery items into food categories, discuss a poster of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, and in small groups categorize twelve books.

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Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System

Imagine a library scavenger hunt. What might searchers find in the section labeled "521"? What about in the "611's"? Class groups investigate the Dewey Decimal System of numbering nonfiction books in the library. Given a number, they...

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Discovering Dewey's Decimal System

Students discover the Dewey Decimal System. In this fractions lesson, students utilize education software to discover how the Dewey Decimal System works. Students create a PowerPoint presentation in groups or a informational brochure...

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Understanding Dewey

This fascinating, informative, and engaging presentation is the best description of the Dewey Decimal System I've ever seen! The history behind Mr. Dewey and his system, is laid out. The rest of the slides give a great account of how the...

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Sell me on Dewey

Fourth graders understand how the Dewey Decimal System works and create a commercial to share with others. In this Dewey decimal System instructional activity, 4th graders work in groups of four or five to complete a presentation of...

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Junie B. Meets Melvil D.

Learners synthesize their role playing skills, love of literature (Junie B. Jones series, by Barbara Park), and knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System. One student reads a statement dramatically telling the class why they need a book,...

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Gooney Bird Greene Meets Melvil Dewey

Students play a game that synthesizes their role playing skills, literature, and comprehension of the Dewey Decimal System. They listen as one student reads a statement that informs the class why they need a book, and then ask another...

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Library of Congress Classification (LCC) System: Research Depends on It!

After comparing the Dewey Decimal to the Library of Congress Classification System, researchers getting college ready visit LCC websites, answer questions on a handout, and take an online quiz about the LCC. Effective links to handouts...

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Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

Third graders choose a book from the non-fiction section of the library and write a summary of one paragraph from the book. They illustrate one section of the book and add their drawing to a classroom mural that shows the sections of the...

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Dewey Decimal System -- Cataloging Collections

Young scholars put their cataloging skills into practice. In this research lesson students examine the listed websites that feature Dewey Decimal classification. Young scholars then collaborate to use the Dewey Decimal classification...

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Dewey Decimal System

Students examine the Dewey Decimal System. In this Dewey Decimal System lesson, students participate in a Dewey Decimal System competition in order to learn how books are categorized in the library.

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Solving the Puzzle to the Dewey Decimal System

Students cooperate in a hands-on approach to learning the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal System. They work in pairs to find missing puzzle pieces already strategically placed in books listen under the ten main categories.

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Biography

Here is a presentation that focuses on the books found in the 921s of the Dewey Decimal system: biographies! After being coached on how to find this type of books, sample books are shown about famous people like Betsy Ross, Abe Lincoln,...

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Discover Wildlife

An interesting presentation on the animals that reside in the 590s of the Dewey Decimal System is here for you. This is a unique way of classifying animals! For example, one slide shows the animals that reside at 594. They are the...

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Book Jacket Match: Practice with the Dewey Decimal Classification System

As a follow-up activity to being introduced to the Dewey Decimal Classification System, 3rd graders listen to poems from Jackie Mims Hopkins' book The Shelf Elf Helps Out and sort book jackets by category and call number.

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Libraries Go Digital

Students uncover how and why books and libraries were created and maintained over the centuries. They practice figuring out how the Dewey Decimal System works. This lesson very nicely covers the world history of libraries.

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Exploring Neighborhoods in the Library

Third graders explore the Dewey Decimal System. In this library media activity, 3rd graders read the book The Shelf Elf Helps Out and explore the various "neighborhoods" in a library by creating a bookmark for each library section.

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Puzzling Through the Library

Learners use a jigsaw puzzle and 'scavenger hunt' approach. They determine the use of OPAC to identify resources and the Dewey Decimal System as a tool for locating books on the library shelves. The locate the different books that are...

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