activity programs

Provides information about alternative learning options for high school students, examining experiences teenagers can try while living at home, as well as opportunities for travel adventures and overseas study programs. Includes a list of resources.

Offers librarians practical strategies for promoting collaboration and student learning in kindergarten through grade five, with exciting, practical lessons for a wide range of subjects that can be completed in one class period.

Presents fifty activity lessons pertaining to libraries, books, and reading, arranged by grade level ranges, with games, skills objectives, and low-cost materials lists.

Contains lesson plans that use picture books as tools to teach the AASL/AECT Information Literacy Standards in kindergarten through third grade, with reproducible patterns and activities, as well as a reading resource bibliography for each month of the school year.

Contains a collection of lessons plans designed for teachers of first and second grade readers, including bibliographic information, with overviews of setting, character, plot, and summary for thirty-five chapter books.

This book is an introduction to the birth of a nation, the United States of America, and the symbols that sprang up as the nation grew, with insturctions for models of the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, and others.

Presents a comprehensive manual with accompanying CD on teaching library media skills to elementary students, covering book care, the parts of a book, the Dewey decimal system, and computer research.

Contains over sixty-five activities and worksheets designed to teach children in grades K through 6 about book care, library behavior, and reading appreciation.

Presents information about the different eras of western expansion, with projects for children to do relating to each era.

Presents games and activities designed to teach pre-kindergarten children through sixth graders how to use the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Also includes an answer key and a list of online library catalogs.