Library Services For Teachers
Curriculum Resources for Lesson Planning
The library has a small professional library which supports teachers assigning research projects, including the current CA Content Standards and Frameworks.
Use of the Library Lab
During this stage of the building process, the Library Lab is being used for computer classes, however the mobile lab can be reserved for use in the library with your classes. A laptop and projector may be checked out from library staff as well. Mobile lab reservations for classroom use are handled by the MacLab.
How to Prepare and Plan for a Library Visit with your Class
One - Two weeks Ahead:
Schedule your visit and talk to Kristi about the assignment: Big6 components, books and online resources to use, whether you would like a cart of books to be reserved, etc. New: create a Google Custom Search to search only sites that you want your students to use. Post it on your InClass page, following these instructions. Here's an example of a custom search for information about countries which will search in these sites only: CIA World Fact Book, CountryReports.org, and Country Studies from the Library of Congress. Try it out.
A Day or Two Before:
Instructions are best given in the classroom just before coming to the library. You may want to review these points:
* how to log on access the library web page
* requiring use of subscription online resources provided by the PAUSD and PACL
* the task to be completed by the end of the period
* requiring use of books and using the catalog to access them
You may want to require students to complete an evaluation worksheet for any “free” websites on the open web that they use for research. Here are a couple of examples: Terman form, New Mexico State University Evaluation Criteria
Group Study Rooms
The group study rooms are being used as offices during this phase of the building program. They are not available for group study.
Educators' Resource Links
General Library Links
American
Association of School Librarians
California
Library Media Teacher Online Resources
California
School Library Association See "Online Resources for Educators."
Information
Power: Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
School
Library and School Librarian Web Pages
School-Libraries.org
BOOKLIST,
LIBRARY JOURNAL, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL,
TEACHER LIBRARIAN
Librarian's professional
journals--excellent sources of quality websites!
For Classroom Teachers:
School
Library Journal article on online plagiarism
Educator's Reference Desk Resource guides, lesson plans, ERIC, etc.
AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer Lessons & activities for effective Internet use, videoconferencing
Best of History Web Sites Over 1000 sites, plus lesson plans, teacher guides, history games, activities, quizzes, and more
California Learning Resource Network
California Technology Assistance Project
(CTAP)
Education World Full-service
website for educators. Searchable database of 115,000+ sites
FactCheckEd Curriculum resources from FactCheck
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
(FREE) Federally supported education resources
free.ed.gov
Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators Renowned educational resource from Discovery Education
Tom March/ozline.com "Bright ideas for education"
National Science Digital Library
Schools of California Online Resources
for Educators (SCORE)
The Scout Report Valuable guide plus helpful "Toolkit" of quality curricular subject links
WebQuest Internet based activities
United Steaming
Discovery Education unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards. note: Teachers enter Gunn passcode C616-8882 to create your own username and password. The student login is henrygunn1/student.
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