Lesson 10 - Wrap Up

I have had an ideal situation while taking this class.  I had my students doing lessons at the same time I was reviewing what I had learned some years ago.  I often find I forget resources unless I repeatedly use them myself.  It was great to repeat this class to review what I had forgotten.  Reviewing while the younger classes were  learning how to use the World Book, Proquest and other electronic resources could not have been better timing.  I would still like to introduce Ancestry to one class as they did some research into family history. 

My goals are the following: 
#1  That Dakota Christian School students use  the electronic resources offered by the state library as our primary sources for research.   I find that it takes constant reminders to the staff  and students that these resources are available.  One staff member did comment that next year she would demand one resource be from the electronic resources that are offered by the state library.  This year I used library time during our reading contest to introduce and review the electronic resources.  It  worked very well since the students had the books they had to read.  No time was needed for check out.

#2 To continue to have the students learn and review the resources available.  I have made work sheets and I hope to evaluate them and make new work sheets to use next year.

I also have a game I would like to do on the last week of school.  We have one set of World Book Encyclopedias in our library.  I am thinking of having one group of students look up a fact in the hard cover set and the other group of students use the World Book online and see who finds the information first.  I have to give this some thought on how to do it.  One of my goals is that the students do realize what an old World Book Encyclopedia was like so they can see the difference. 

I was encouraged last week.  Two fifth grade students, who are cousins and live on the same farm, asked if our library had information on goats since they had new goats on their farm.  We found one book and then I suggested the World Book Encyclopedia online.  Each student wanted an article printed to take home with them.  They knew exactly how to get to the World Book Resource without me helping them. 

Thanks for this Challenge.  I hope to refer back to this class in the future.  I appreciated all your hard work in preparing the lessons!