Library+lessons

=Library Lessons 4u2 use:= Lessons available for check out at the DLMC: Fifth Grade Dewey Decimal lesson Book Parts lesson: easy fiction Book Parts Lesson: non-fiction book Evaluation Tools Grades 4-6 How a book is made Kindergarten book care lesson Library is Fun! grades K-4 Organizational features of non-fiction text R.A.D.C.A.B. Third grade fiction/non-fiction lesson Where can I find it? To check out any of these lessons contact Pam at the DLMC 70611 =Online library lesson sites:= http://dictionary.reference.com/ http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/ This site is used to locate book series. It is very helpful for when the question comes up: which one do I read first?

[] Series seach site! NEW [] A calendar that lists library events and authors' birthdays. [|http://www.factmonster.com] This website is fun to explore for interesting facts and fun activities. http://www.informationliteracy.org/ A great site remember to create a login and then start searching. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ PBS sponsored site for teachers. http://novemberlearning.com/resources/ November Learning site. http://fno.org/ Jamie McKenzie website. http://www.readwritethink.org/ From the International Reading Association. [] School Library Media Activities Monthly website. Check out the Blogs and Podcasts. [] Check this site out for 5th grade States and Region Lessons. You will be a hero with your teachers. [] Helps students to figure out where to start in a research project. [] This site ranks Newbery Award books accoring to how well they are liked by readers. [] Check out the site, mostly for parents and students but you might find something that would help you. There are a lot of coloring pages, in fact black line masters for each president. [] What should I read next website. Finally! NEW

=Website Evaluation tools:= http://www.factmonster.com/movies/A A movie website that lists G and PG movies. http://www.imdb.com/ A movie rating site. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html Criteria for evaluating a website. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html Website evaluation tutorials [] University of Berkeley evaluation tools website http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html University of Berkeley finding information web page. Mostly secondary. http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Enrich/quickgr4-0.htm Elementary quality information checklist http://allaboutexplorers.com/index.html [] Tells the author of a webpage. [] Informs the viewer of a webpage the history of a webpage. =Websites to use that demonstrate unreliable sources:= http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html Velcro is in trouble. The crop is being decimated by pests and inadequate rainfall. For another example click on the author's name and read more. http://descy.50megs.com/Emankato/mankato.html Mankato, MN a city that has a wonderful climate, in fact the temperature is never under 70 degrees. http://improbable.com/about/ The tag line of this website is: Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. http://zapatopi.net/ Secondary website that has several examples of outlandish articles. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Try this site with elementary students. It is about tree octopi. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html Middle and High school website evaluation tool.

[] Great for teaching unrelable websites.

=Websites that have been researched and found to be safe for students:= http://www.ipl.org/ Librarians Public Library. http://lii.org/ Librarians Internet Index - mostly Secondary http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm American Library Assoc. site of safe websites. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/ Kathy Schrock's website for educators http://pbskids.org/ PBS sponsored site for preschool children. http://pbskids.org/go/index.html PBS sponsored site for school aged children. http://www.pbs.org/parents/ PBS site for Partents to support student learning. [] It's National Geographic do I need to say more? type.

=Other search engines besides Google:=

http://www.quintura.com/ Word cloud searching for secondary. http://quinturakids.com/ Word cloud searching for elementary. Cool site. http://rollyo.com/index.html A search engine that you set up. You establish up to 25 websites that students can search and visit. [] Used to be Ask Jeeves. [] An educational search engine. [] This site has complied various search engines for students. [] This site is a blog but has a list of search engines that is very comprehensive. NEW

=Reference search engines:= http://www.answers.com/ Searches leading reference sources. [|http://www.Refdesk.com/] Quick fact checker for the internet [|http://www.Libraryspot.com/] All sorts of reference links here for Secondary. http://www.factmonster.com/ Reference site for Elementary http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html This is a webpage that can assist students to figure out which search engines are the best for their type of research. [] Population statistics for the United States, can be seached by city, county, state. NEW [] Student version of the US Census. NEW

=Digital Storytelling sites:= http://myths.e2bn.org/create/ Fun site to help students create a digital story http://goanimate.com/ Anyone can animate a story using this site. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/filmmaker.html From National Geographic, students can make wild life videos. http://www.photoshow.com/home/start A photo sharing site that allows for voice and text to be inserted into the slide show.

=Just plain fun sites:= [] Jokes, jokes and more jokes. [] Another jole site but this is unacessible from DCSD.

=Finding new sites on the web:= http://www.pandia.com/ Check out the web search tutorial