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Discover 39 innovative library activities designed to spark students' love for reading and learning. From themed reading clubs like "Junie B. Jones' Book Club" to hands-on activities like "Dewey Bingo" and "Mapping the Library," these options promote collaboration, strategic thinking, and creativity. Engage students with exciting initiatives such as "Buried Treasure," where overlooked books are highlighted, and "Estimation Station," offering book prizes for estimations. Perfect for educators seeking dynamic ways to enhance the learning environment.
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99 Library Ideas Our 39 favs
Hunsaker’s Picks • Bottom Shelf Day • Bears, Books and Blankets • Junie B. Jones’ Book Club • Evaluating Websites- www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
Topic Read About - animal- 1st student - desert animal- 2nd - rattlesnake- 3rd • What is a call #? - Teach how to use call #’s - Have students become authors - Where would your book be located? - Are there other books at the address? • Library Activities - Dewey Bingo - Fiction 7-Up • It’s Your Library- suggestion box
Color Coded Bibliographies- http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm • Create Ambiance on TV using DVD • Buried Treasure- spotlight a book that is never checked out to feature. 12. Bottle Biographies 13. Electronic Feedback using www.surveymonkey.com
14. Work with art and music to find books that go with what they are teaching. 15. Picturing America Grant 16. Library Helpers create Shelf Elves. 17. Mr. Wiggle’s Book Care 18. Mr. Wiggle’s No, No, Never, Never Box 19. Google vs. Database Jar
Sadler's Picks 20. Pet Centers
Genre Center -Read two different genres -Choose your favorite • Strategic Thinking -Games that promote problem solving • DEAR time -twice a day in the library • Where in the World are You? -Geography puzzles that staff and students come by and solve
Ready, Set Teach -High school course that places students interested in teaching within your classroom/library.
Estimation Station -Weekly estimation jar -Book prizes • One Day Research • Mapping the Library -Create a library template -Students map out the library • Fun Spaces to Read -Tents -Fun Furniture
Taks Question of the Week • Do the Dewey -Visual aid with Dewey # -ie: basketball labeled with Dewey # • Museum Trunks (on loan) • Easy Locator Codes -Label vendor posters with Dewey # • Not Just For Books -Use your document camera for fossils, animals etc.
History Comes to Life -Student Living Museum • Database Hunt -Here’s the Question -Find the Answer -Best Resource • SOS- So Simple Super Library Lessons -Teachers earn a letter for every lesson scheduled in the library -Once they spell “Super” free time in library
Last, but most important: 39. Collaboration