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School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Combined craft and library media activities with Christmas holiday themes are suggested to develop card catalog and indexing skills, Dewey decimal classification system and location skills, and literature appreciation. (MES)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handicrafts, Holidays, Learning Activities
Winkel, Lois – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1998
Lists recommended book titles for children on art, crafts, artists, optical illusions, and drawing. Provides the address for a Web site featuring art activities and information about artists for children. (PEN)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art, Artists, Books
Dingwall, Cindy – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Offers ideas for children's activities to celebrate National Children's Book Week in elementary school libraries. Highlights include activities focused on food; Internet sites; puppet shows; songs; baking; craft projects; guest storytellers; and booktalks by public children's librarians. (LRW)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Libraries, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Zingher, Gary – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1995
Discusses costume play as a means for children to safely become other beings, cultivate their own style, experience culture, experiment with new materials, and escape their anxieties. Notes characters from children's literature who used or wanted costumes, and provides a creative activities sampler. (AEF)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Games
Martin, Ron – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes "Kid Cuts," an arts and crafts computer software program for students in prekindergarten through sixth grade that provides 22 activities in 6 curriculum areas. An example is given of an activity for kindergarten and first graders related to counting that includes library media skills objectives and mathematics objectives. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Courseware
Brodie, Carolyn S. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Discusses children's literature on Native American Indians and suggests ideas for using the literature in the school library media center or classroom by the library media specialist or by the classroom teacher. Activities and appropriate materials are suggested for the topics of housing, poetry, food, biography, crafts and music, and traditional…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development
Shafer, Marilyn – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2002
Offers suggestions for an orientation program for middle school library media centers. Highlights include focusing on a different curriculum area each year; teamwork among library staff; creating hands-on activity stations around the library; teamwork among students; and ideas for the activity stations, including video, arts and crafts, games, and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Games, Educational Technology, Handicrafts
