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Best-Selling Books Bar Graph
Create a bar graph with your elementary school learners. First they read and interpret data, Â and then they color in the graph (provided) to indicate how many of each were sold. Consider providing them with the data but having them...
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Library of Congress
Students visit the Library of Congress to help them explain the importance of this library and the concept of ownership of ides.
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Science Topics and Presentations
Students go to the library and use computers to research a science topic and work on their presentations. In this presentations lesson plan, students use overhead transparencies and use props for a skit.
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Where is Grand Dewey Daddy?
Third graders find books. In this library activity, 3rd graders use the Dewey Decimal System to find books and determine the shelves they are located on.
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The Library
In this library vocabulary worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise. Students complete each sentence about the library with one of four choices.
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Sorting
Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Online Public Access Catalog
Fourth graders learn how to find books in the library. In this library lesson, 4th graders observe how to use an online system to search for a book by title, author and subject. Students practice searching for books.
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Orientation to the Library
High schoolers participate in an orientation to the high school library and locate various resources. In this orientation to the library lesson, students are introduced to the library by the media specialist. They learn the layout and...
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Community Locations - Police Station, Fire Station, Library, Post Office
Students get excited about their community which can be extended through visits from members of the community or field trips. In this community helpers lesson plan, students demonstrate knowledge of the interaction of location, family,...
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Places in My Community - Parks, Library, Hospital, School
Students exhibit their knowledge of community. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify areas of their neighborhood and local community by recognizing pictures of various locations, including parks, libraries, hospitals,...
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School-Home Links/Book Links
For this visiting a local library worksheet, students record what stood out in the book they selected to check out, the title, the author, and what they learned about the library. Students write two short answers.
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Learning About the Library - School/Home Links, Book Links
In this home-school literature worksheet, learners go to a library and pick out a book they would like to read. They check out the book, and write down the title and author. They read the book with their learning partner before...
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I Want To Go To the Library
Students are introduced to the library as a resource to obtain reading material. After a review of the way to correct reading mistakes, students travel to the school library to select a book according to their reading level. They...
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Exploring the Library
Pupils explore ways to use the library as a resource for accessing research material. Working individually, they participate in a teacher created library scavenger hunt to aid in locating fiction and nonfiction material as well as...
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The Library Dragon
Third graders examine the role of the library media specialist in the school by listening to a read aloud of The Library Dragon and visiting Carmen Agra Deedy's website. They talk about respect for the books and the others using the...
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Leo the Library Mouse
Second graders share how they should take care of library media center books and display their ideas for others to see. They read the book, LEO THE LIBARY MOUSE and discuss book care rules and reflect on how they compare with the main...
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Huey and Louie Meet Dewey
Students exercise their library shelving skills. Students complete a worksheet that aids a rambunctious student who needs their help. Students become familiar with the Dewey decimal classification system. Students organize books on the...
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Library Scavenger Hunt
Students work together to locate and identify resources in the library. They use the internet to answer research questions. They share the information they gathered with the class.
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Library Visit 2 Activity
In this literacy worksheet, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the concept of using the media center and library. The information is used to write a paper.
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Library Visit Paper
In this language arts worksheet, learners use the information in order to be come acquainted with visiting the library and as a source of information to write a paper.
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Love of Learning
Third graders discuss times when learning has been fun and when it hasn't. They imagine that the are going for a ride in an aeroplane. Students imagine that they are looking through the window at the land below, they see the uneven shape...
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Turn, Turn, Turn
Students discover how to select a book and determine if it is too difficult to read. They break into groups of two; with one partner spinning the other around several times with their eyes closed and then the other person guides them...
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Farewell to the Former Library Media Specialist
Pupils write a letter to their former library media specialist incorporating brainstormed ideas of what they have liked about the library media center. In this way students let the teacher know about what has been done in the past and...
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Familiarization Fun: Using the Media Center
Learners participate in a scavenger hunt to locate the different sections of the media center and determine the purpose for each section. They build a jigsaw puzzle as they find each major section of the library such as the reference or...