activity programs

Presents an integrated approach to the teaching of library and information skills to middle school students, identifying over forty-five sample learning situations, and including lesson plans, instructional units, and activity sheets.

Lessons for teaching library media skills incorporating junior high and middle school subjects.

Contains a selection of hands-on science activities designed to help students in grades one through four learn how the senses work, and how to use the five senses to explore the properties of matter.

Provides instructions for a variety of experiments introducing the study of heat, its characteristics, sources, and uses.

A collection of hands-on projects that use ordinary toys and play materials to demonstrate the principles of chemistry to students in kindergarten through ninth grade, addressing topics such as solubility, attraction and repulsion, permeability, and volatility, and including reproducible student worksheets.

Collection of booktalks centering on topics in American history such as frontier life, the arrival of the pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, and railroads.

Assists the librarian to devise integrated media skills lessons appropriate for grades 6 through 8.

Lessons that integrate the classroom curriculum and library skills in teaching students to use CD-ROMS, videodiscs, and computer networks.

Provides information on how to plan and implement a variety of different reading competitions for middle school students; and includes a list of related websites, techniques for encouraging participation, and advice on recognition, publicity, and other topics.