Library Skill Activities for Students
Use this page to find links that provide hands-on learning for your library students. All of these links will allow students to learn about the Dewey Decimal System and library organization on a more independent level.
Dewey Decimal System
Do you get confused when it comes to knowing the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Welcome to a site that will teach you the difference! Have fun.
This web-based tutorial of the Dewey Decimal System was created by students for students. It is an excellent, kid-friendly site. And because other students created it, they have used language and examples that kids can understand. This site would be great for younger students (3rd or 4th grade) who are just learning about the Dewey Decimal System.
This is a wonderful tutorial about the Dewey Decimal System! It has online exercises that are to be done after each step of the tutorial. Clicking on wrong answers informs the student with a nice message to try again. Right answers reward students with the message to move forward. This tutorial would be for older students with a basic knowledge of library organization. Younger students with less experience would benefit from something that is a bit simpler.
How To Use the Dewey Decimal System
This is a wonderful site done by the Monroe County Public Library in Indiana. The page lists hotlinks to all the main classifications in the system. By clicking on each link, the user gets a description of that classification and some book titles that are examples for that classification. It also lists websites that would fall under that same Dewey classification. This would be a wonderful site to use for a whole class explanation of what each of the 10 broad topics are and how they break down further.
This page comes from the Middletown, N.Y. public library page. It has biographical information about Melvil Dewey, a simple explanation of how the Dewey Decimal System works and a quiz to test your knowledge. The student can choose from three difficulty levels when taking the quiz.
The library has sprung a leak and flooded! Help the librarian get the books back on the shelf in the right place. This very simple game will help students who are just beginning to learn about the Dewey Decimal System understand that like subjects go together when it comes to library organization.
This is a one page explanation of call numbers and how they work. It gives a brief description of the three major classification systems - Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal and Superintendent of Documents.
Online Fun & Games
Pronounced key-ah and short for Quintessential Instructional Archive, this site provides numerous cross-curricular activities and ideas for all types of teachers. This particular link however, will take you to the Library Science section of the site. Here you will find listed the top 20 favorite online library games and activities with access to many more. Turn your students loose and let them have fun! They'll never know that they are learning something!
Last updated July 26, 2003.
Back
to Main page