[CALIBK12] Dewey treasure hunts

[Susan Dubin]

Here is another idea for teaching Dewey:
I assign pairs of students one part of the Dewey numbers (001-99,100-199,etc.). They are responsible for looking through their section, noting the topics of books in their section, making a poster advertising their section and performing a 30 second commercial to get people to come to their section. We use the posters and commercials to introduce Dewey to the following year's class.
Susan Dubin
Off-the-Shelf Library Services
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kbshepler at aol.com 
  To: janiescott at san.rr.com ; calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu 
  Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Dewey treasure hunts


  In a message dated 10/1/2007 12:28:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, janiescott at san.rr.com writes:
    Does anyone know of a treasure hunt/search we could have our 4-6 grade do to begin to learn the Dewey system? They have never done it before and so I would like something fairly simple that we could reproduce and give to them.

    If you have one you could send on or know of a simple one I would really appreciate not reinventing the wheel.

    Thanks,

    Janie Scott, Librarian
  I don't have a "treasure hunt" per se, but do have couple of ideas about teaching dewey. Perhaps they may be interesting to others:

  - keep some of those beautiful calendars from past years and rip up the ones with obvious Dewey connections : ancient Egypt, reptiles, pets, architecture, solar system. During a lesson, let each student choose one of the pages, then they use their reference list to map their calendar page to the correct Dewey number. Check results. Then they must go and find that area in the library and check out a book on that topic.

  - create a collection of beany baby toys: all the animals you can find at garage sales e.g. amphibian, bird, reptiles, insects, pets, carnivores (I even have paranormal creatures like dragons!). Have a collection of tags with cords on them. Students choose a beany baby figure. Then they use their reference list to map their "creature" to the correct Dewey number, and attach a Post It note with the Dewey number on it to tag and attach to creature. Check results. Then they must go and find that area in the library and check out a book on that topic.

  Working with fun, attractive materials appeals to everybody and the kinesthetic work helps all kinds of learners.

  Kathy Shepler, Librarian
  Aurora School
  Oakland, CA





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