Monday, February 27, 2006

Ms. White's Students Study the Great Depression

Ms. White's middle school social studies students are begining a unit on the Great Depression. Loads of library books sent to their classroom to help them out.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

HS ELA Students Return

Mrs. Lauria's 11th grade English Language Arts students returned to the library to explore how novels can have real-life relevance. They explored themes found in To Kill a KockingBird and searched for articles using full-text library databases related to them.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

10th Grade English Language Arts Students Study Lord of the Flies

Today, Mrs. Lauria's 10th grade ELA class visited the library to look for news articles about surviving disasters. The lesson was lead by Ms. Lamanna, a student teacher, and Mr. Dutcher illustrated the need to evaluate Web pages before introducing the students to the Custom Newspapers full-text database.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Students in Home and Careers Classes Explore Nutrition and Diet

Several times this week, students in Middle School Home and Careers classes visited the library to use the computers and interactive web sites to learn about the impact of the foods they eat on their nutrition and diet.

Monday, February 06, 2006

Ms. Wallace's Students Visit Library to Study Black History

On Monday, Ms. Wallace's students came down to their library to learn about famous African Americans through biography books.