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Letters of Note VOYA judyoconnell Information Skills Lesson Plans Resources for School Librarians - Index Menu for This Page: General Collections of Lesson Plans | The Dewey Decimal System | Reference Books and Web Sites | Worksheets | Research Methods and Reports | Miscellaneous and Holiday Lessons General Collections of Lesson Plans Library Skills Lessons - by Katy Punch on Pinterest Scholastic's Lesson Plans & Reproducibles - Lesson plans for grades K - 12. Yearly Curriculum for the library Library Lesson Plans - By Jennifer Francis of the Powell County Schools. Introduction to Library Use How to Care for a Library Books - This article from WikiHow includes many good points that you may want to include in your talk on book care. The Dewey Decimal System and the Catalog Huey and Louie Meet Dewey - A lesson plan from Education World. Reference Books and Web Sites All About Words: Dictionary Activities - Dictionary lesson plans from Education World. Worksheets and Online Tools Library Research Methods and Reports Miscellaneous and Holiday Lessons Up to Top

Library of Congress Blog This post is based on an article from the November–December 2016 issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. Carleton Watkins captured this view of Yosemite’s Mirror Lake while most of the country was engaged in the Civil War. National parks are among the nation’s most cherished natural resources. The National Park Service, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Interior, was created by an act of Congress. On August 25, 1916—101 years ago today—President Woodrow Wilson signed the act into law. A century after its founding, the National Park Service overseas more than 400 sites, in every U.S. state and territory. One of these sites is California’s Yosemite National Park. Subsequent efforts by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and naturalist John Muir resulted in Yosemite becoming a national park in 1890—decades before the establishment of the National Park Service.

Announcement: The 2011 Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge Begins September 12 Welcome! If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, increase energy levels or just generally look and feel healthier you've come to the right place. Here's where to start: Visit the Start Here and Primal Blueprint 101 pages to learn more about the Primal Lifestyle. Subscribe to my free weekly newsletter to receive 10 eBooks, a 7-Day Course of Primal Fundamentals, and more - all for free. Cut to the chase by visiting PrimalBlueprint.com. Thanks for visiting! Who’s up for a challenge? If you are a longtime reader you know what to expect: 30 days of contests, prizes, reader-created content, feature articles and motivation to help you get and stay Primal for life. Hey, did I mention there will be Primal prizes? But first, some details: You don’t have to sign-up to take part in the challenge. How to Prepare for the Challenge 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pre-Challenge Contest Why wait until next Tuesday to start winning stuff? Only U.S. residents are eligible.

Jbrary - Tune in for Storytime Success Bright Ideas Tips for Keeping Students Engaged By far, my most popular blog post is my 5 Tips for Engaging Students in the First Five Minutes of a Lesson. It has been viewed over 117,000 times since I posted it. At first that surprised me – like, fell-off-my-chair surprised me – but the more I think about it, the more I get it: good teachers deeply want to engage their students – especially teenagers. So, consider this my follow up post. You have grabbed their attention in the first five minutes… now what? Let’s be honest: many of us struggle to concentrate on one thing for a full hour. 5 min | Introduction activity 10 min | Lecture-style teaching 15 min | Group/paired work task 15 min | Individual work 5 min | Wrapping up / Consolidation Give students an incentive to get to the end of the lesson. If you tell students that they won’t get to the treat unless they have completed their tasks for the lesson, they may just work that little bit harder all lesson. Students will drift off if they are to remains static all lesson.

Current News and Professional Trends Resource Descriptions Welcome to the iPod & iPad User Group Wiki We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the action research projects and classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods and iPads are supporting academic achievement for our students. Follow us on Twitter @CanbyiOS Here comes the game changer.... Stay tuned for notes on this year's deployment with iOS 7. Older news: Update 09.30.2011: We have posted videos that were filmed at the end of last school year. Update 09.15.2011: We are currently working on our 2011-12 deployment, which includes about 600 iPod touch and 400 iPad devices across the district. iPad 2 is here! iPad has landed! Here are our current iPod & iPad deployment, management, and curricular pages:

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