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Exploring Science in the Library: Resources and Activities for Young People

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With major breakthroughs like the Mission to Mars and "cloning" making the headlines, science has once again captured the public's attention. Teachers and librarians need to integrate these new resources into the k -- 12 curriculum. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies and publisher of the review journal Science Books & Film, continues its push for national improvements in science literacy and reform with Exploring Science in the Library. Librarians can support active learning in the sciences by making books available and supporting teachers in project work, follow-up discussion, and resources for curriculum development. Exploring Science in the Library offers the tools you need to collaborate in building a curriculum with teachers, including: -- Hands-on, supplemental activities for science instruction in the library -- Web references that develop science literacy -- A guide to selecting the best science books for children -- Information on fundraising, projects, and grant writing -- An annotated bibliography of science tradebooks Exploring Science in the Library will guide school and children's librarians toward becoming active partners in teaching science literacy, making it an essential resource for your professional shelf.

Bulletin Boards and Displays: Good Ideas for Librarians and Teachers

Gayle Skaggs

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Designing an eye-catching bulletin board is like doing a billboard for a business. Library patrons and students are consumers-of information-and it is the challenge of librarians and teachers to advertise their "products" to grab the consumer's attention. But librarians and teachers often lack the training or time to come up with an ad campaign. Here are 65 tried-and-true bulletin board and display ideas for librarians and teachers. All are highly adaptable-for classroom, school library, and public library use. General directions and suggestions, such as background and letter choices, accompany tips on keeping costs down. Drawings illustrate the ideas, showing you just how to come up with the perfect bulletin board to advertise your "business."

On Display: 25 Themes to Promote Reading

Gayle Skaggs

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Encouraging students to read is an important goal for both librarians and educators, but creating exciting and effective reading promotion displays can often be a daunting task. This collection of eye-catching, theme-based reading promotion displays provides detailed instructions, diagrams, and suggestions for 25 different themes, from outer space to under the sea. Each theme includes variations for different age and grade groups, and ideas that range from a single bulletin board to a library-wide extravaganza with contests and parties. Illustrations are provided for every display. Tips for reducing costs and using alternate materials are also included, so making reading fun does not have to hurt the budget. With these ideas, encouraging students to read can be easy, fun, and creative.

Complete Library Skills Activities Program: Ready-To-Use Lessons for Grades K-6

Arden Druce

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Excellent Curriculum Aid for Elementary Teachers/Librarians 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ideally, all students need to learn basic library skills in elementary school. However, it takes time to develop a workable curriculum to use in the classroom, so it is easy to overlook teaching some research skills. This book makes it easy to teach library skills, as the course development work has been done for you. The book includes a pretest to determine skill levels, reproducible activity sheets, recommended sources, and a bibliography. The lessons begin with kindergarten reading groups and progress through Dewey Decimal System use. If you are an elementary teacher or librarian, this book is for you. Also, as a junior/senior high librarian, I can recommend this book for library skills classes, as the lessons are easily adapted to older students. Ms. Druce's background in librarianship is great preparation for writing the book, and her obvious love for books and reading really comes through.

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More than 65 lesson plans and illustrated activity sheets will involve students in books and the library. Included are diagnostic pretests and materials on book care, library behavior, the Dewey Decimal System, book reports, and more.

Re-Designing the High School Library for the Forgotten Half: The Information Needs of the Non-College Bound Student

Margie J. Klink Thomas

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A thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional guide 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the principle functions of the high-school library is to provide non-college bound students with the kinds of books, periodicals, and curriculum supplemental materials that will prepare them for alternatives to university educations upon graduation from high school. Indeed, to build and maintain a collection that will promote the concept of life-long learning will prove of enduring value for all elements of a high school's student population wither students decide to go directly into the workforce, enlist in the military, take an entrepreneurial venture, or attend a trade school, enrol in an apprenticeship program, or attend a community college. It will even prove invaluable for those students going on to pursue degrees at colleges and universities. Librarians needing to accommodate non-college bound high school students have an superbly organized and comprehensive 'how to' guide with "Re-Designing The High School Library For The Forgotten Half: The Information needs Of The Non-College Bound Student" by high school librarian Margie J. Klink Thomas, who draws upon her many years of experience and expertise working in special, academic, and public library systems. This thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional guide should be a part of every college and university's "Library Science" reference collection and supplemental reading list.

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Most high school administrators, teachers, and staff concentrate on the student who is in the college preparatory track, while those who may not even finish high school have less attention paid to their curriculum and their educational needs. If the role of the school librarian is to prepare all students for lifelong learning, school librarians must work closely with teachers in charge of courses preparing students to go from school to work. They need to remind other teachers who are in general courses that many of the students in their classrooms who will not go to college, but will take jobs which pay them much more than the college graduate makes in many areas of the work force. This book points out the role of the school librarian in working with aIl the students and maps out the route to take to make this happen.

Information Literacy Toolkit: Grades Kindergarten-6 (Information Literacy Toolkit)

Jenny Ryan, Steph Capra

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Success today is ever more dependent on the ability to access, understand, and manipulate information and librarians, as gatekeepers to information, share a critical role in this process. The three innovative guides in this new series will equip school library media specialists and teachers to promote and teach information literacy skills to young library users and to: Collaborate in curriculum planning so that students will end up with a cohesive skill set. Teach the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that lead to information literacy. Use a step-by-step process, in line with curriculum standards yet flexible enough to adapt to school and district settings. The first two guides present skill-level appropriate tools that foster collaboration between libraries and schools, school library media specialists and teachers. The accompanying student workbook provides in-class support materials. Information Literacy Toolkit: Grades Kindergarten-6 Organized into three parts - process overview, planning organizer, and teaching tools - the K-6 guide helps you to introduce information literacy concepts and skills, and link literacy to standard subject areas. Information Literacy Toolkit: Grades 7 and Up The 7 and Up toolkit covers more advanced skills in a broader context, applicable less to defined subject areas than to curricula as a whole. Note: The Macintosh/PC ready CD-ROM is readable in Microsoft Excel. Research Projects: An Information Literacy Planner for Students The student workbook/planner challenges students to put the information literacy skills they have acquired to work - analyzing a research topic, brainstorming for ideas, actively taking notes, creating bibliographies, and conducting focused research. Designed to be customizable and reproducible, The Information Literacy Toolkit series is your one-stop resource for promoting and passing on the skills of information literacy and for guiding students toward inquiry-based, active learning.

Library Bulletin Boards and Displays Kit

Jerry J. Mallett

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School Library Journal's Best: A Reader for Children'S, Young Adult & School Librarians

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Here are the finest ideas, discussions, and methods that school and public librarians serving youth have relied on for over four decades, all gathered in one indispensable volume. Included are SLJ's best articles, special features, and essays: 32 provocative editorials by editor-in-chief Lillian Gerhardt, plus over 100 seminal articles on: censorship; the Internet; literacy; multicultural services; new technology; children's and YA literature; copyright issues; home-schooling and libraries; crisis information services; and funding youth service programs. An essential read for children's, young adult, and public librarians, School Library Journal's Best is also ideal as a text to help prepare students to work with children in any library setting.

Making the Writing and Research Connection With the I-Search Process: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

Marilyn Z. Joyce, Julie I. Tallman

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I-Search is a unique new personalized approach to creating research and term papers that avoids many of the pitfalls and frustrations of traditional methods by having students write about topics they care about in the first person. Chapter by chapter, this innovative manual shows teachers and school media specialists all of the steps involved in collaborating to make this connection a reality in their school: starting the process; narrowing the topic; using information; assessing the progress; the final paper; and inservice training. Appendixes provide sample questions, a time frame to make sure that students are on track, and an explanation of the best way to read a chapter in a textbook or an article in a magazine for research purposes. Also included are two sample I-Search papers by students, a bibliography, and an index.

Serving Special Needs Students in the School Library Media Center

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School library media specialists are now considered part of the teaching staff and are charged with integrating their library and information skills curriculum with the more general classroom curriculum. At the same time, more and more special needs students are part of every school and every classroom. This professional reference offers practical information to help the school library media specialist work effectively with special needs students.