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Smith, Jane Bandy
This guide for teachers of library skills provides classroom activities for students in the middle grades of elementary school. The activities can be used to instruct students in the following: (1) use of alphabetical order, (2) location of materials in the school or public library, (3) familiarity with Dewey Decimal classifications, (4) use of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades
DuPree, Sherry Sherrod – 1978
The library media program presented in this booklet is intended to equip students and interested users of the card catalog with basic library skills. It has been designed to assist classroom teachers and library media specialists in teaching and disseminating information on the card catalog using Dewey Decimal skill activities. Contents of the…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Class Activities, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Giving students a chance to associate numbers with subjects can be useful in speeding their location of desired print or nonprint materials and helping students feel independent when browsing. A matching game for helping students learn the Dewey numbers is presented. Instructions for the library media specialist or teacher, instructions for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dewey Decimal Classification, Educational Games, Elementary Education
Moore, Mae Frances; Yee, Helen W. – 1982
This guide to meeting the library instruction needs of educationally disadvantaged and English as a second language students provides, for each of 10 units, suggestions for general instructional procedures, discussion topics, and classroom activities, as well as exercises and informational sheets. First, introductory material considers the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Hawaii Association of School Librarians, Honolulu. – 1994
In order to use new educational technologies effectively and to help students cope with the mass of information that has become available, librarians have begun to develop strategies and lessons to instruct students in searching. There has been, however, no detailed curriculum in the schools to ensure that students and teachers in grades K-12 are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Retrieval
Talbot, Dixie – Book Report, 1997
A high school library media specialist advises teaching search engine skills by incorporating them into existing instructional units. Describes how search engines were introduced in an eighth-grade computer literacy class. Presents class activities, and provides tips for teachers. Includes addresses for eight search engines and three sites…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Literacy, Elementary Education, Grade 8

Leckie, Gloria J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996
Faculty often overestimate the scholarly communication experiences, critical-thinking abilities, and information-seeking skills of the undergraduates to whom they assign papers. A stratified methodology is suggested for teaching information retrieval skills in the classroom. A strong curriculum-integrated approach could ease the burden on students…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Higher Education