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Materials Needed
1. LMC overhead presentation system
2. Individual computers for students
3. OPAC system from library
4. Dewey Number Hunt Handout - See Attached
5. Dewey Category Reference Chart - See Attached
Day 1 - Introduction: 10 minutes 1. Librarian comes in and starts talking to kids around her very loudly. “I can never find what I want in the library. Books are just thrown on the shelves and not organized in any way. If I look on the computer it just gives me a bunch of numbers and letters I don’t understand. How am I supposed to know where to find books on drawing a dog or something?”
2. TL asks class what they would say to another student who said that to them? Call on 2 or 3 students to get discussion started. Follow up with the question below if children do not mention what they see around the library:What do we notice about how the books are arranged when we look around the library? |
Body: 20 minutes 3. Break students into already prepared pairs for next activity. Students will examine website below for 5 minutes on theirown: 4. Using Dewey Number Hunt Worksheet – (One to each child)Worksheet is a Treasure Hunt for the kids to identify which of Dewey’s 10 main groups contain the following topics - joke books, dinosaurs, the Statue of Liberty, the senses, books about Christmas, fairy tales, sign language, baseball, taking care of pets & encyclopedias - Bonus question – how to draw dogs
5. Collect Treasure Hunt Worksheet for next day's lesson Note for future use: (Use high interest topics for whatever that year’s group is interested in)
Day 2 - Follow up lesson: Introduction: 10 minutes 6. What did we learn yesterday about the Dewey Decimal System? What kind of things do you want to find information about?Brainstorming Web – to be printed out and given to kids as hand out to take with them. Brainstorm web into 10 main Dewey categories
Body: 15 minutes 7. Checking out the OPAC and answering how is it organized?Redistribute Dewey Number Hunt Worksheet from yesterday. Have individual computers on for each student. Show students on overhead screen how to click to get to library’s OPAC. Have students navigate to OPAC from library’s main screen on their own.
8. Each child needs to then look in beginning OPAC categories and click on the sections of interest to them. Each child needs to select 3 books to find on the shelves. Students will use bottom of Dewey Number Hunt Worksheet to record their book information – Dewey category, call number, author and title of book.
9. Check out a book of interest using the OPAC and reporting what number the books were found in to the LMS. |
Conclusion: 5 minutes 10. “I can never find what I want in the library. Books are just thrown on the shelves and not organized in any way. If I look on the computer it just gives me a bunch of numbers and letters I don’t understand. How am I supposed to know where to find books on like drawing a dog or something?”
Does anyone remember the answer to where to find this book? Look around the room for responses. How are the books in the non-fiction section of the library organized? Call on everyone raising their hands for the same or similar response over and over again to reinforce concept and foster success. Ask students what types of books they found to take home and where they found them (remind them it is OK to look on the spine!) 11. Tell the kids you have a bookmark for them to take with them to remind them in case they forget the categories. |
