3-D Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers - Softcover

Evans, Earlene Green; Branch, Muriel Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078640860X ISBN 13: 9780786408603

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000

Synopsis

Librarians, teachers, and media specialists always need new ways to engage students in learning. Here are 19 theme-based, three-dimensional bulletin board designs to inspire and direct learning in fifth through ninth grades. The boards are grouped into five subject areas, and each board and its activities can either be used alone or as part of a series. For example, the "Flight" section features eye-catching and educational boards spotlighting outer space, the Tuskegee Airmen, hot air balloons, and NASA. More than just decoration, each board is the centerpiece of a focused effort involving numerous learning activities across the curriculum. This work illustrates each board and gives detailed construction steps, suggestions for books and other items to include in the board's area, and several activity sheets that direct students to read, write, explore, and create as part of an engaging experience that attracts even the resistant learner. With these exciting ideas, library staff and teachers will find it easy to use these plans, or find inspiration for their own.

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About the Author

Earlene Green Evans is a retired librarian and writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She is a recipient of the Rutherford Memorial and the Florence B. Duke Awards for excellence in Library Science and a two time winner of the Virginia Educational Media Association Photography Award. Muriel Miller Branch, a retired librarian, is also a writer, storyteller and historian. She is the recipient of the 1998 Region I Outstanding Educator of the Year Award. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

From Booklist

To help teachers, librarians, and media specialists pique children's interest and inspire learning, award-winning librarians Evans and Branch compiled this collection of often innovative displays. With little explanatory text, this book simply presents the step-by-step process for constructing 19 thematic displays, all of which were successfully used by teachers and librarians across the U.S. Each example includes a list of necessary supplies and materials, instructions for building the display, a black-and-white photograph of the completed work, and extended learning activities that include matching quizzes, research and writing assignments, and discussion questions. Each chapter shares different displays based on one of the following themes: apples, reading, flight, women, the Harlem Renaissance, and world cultures. Throughout, the authors suggest easy, inexpensive, yet worthwhile ideas geared mostly to fourth- through eighth-grade curricula. Except for failing to provide answer keys for the activities that ask specific, content-based questions, this book offers everything teachers and media specialists need to construct displays and use them as learning tools. Roger Leslie
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About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 078640860X
• ISBN 13: 9780786408603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132