Re: Target: Lessons to teach elementary school kids how to use online catalog

[Barbara Braxton <barbara@DYNAMITE.COM.AU>]

Hi Christine (again)

> I would greatly appreciate and gladly share with all lessons that you use
to
> teach elementary school kids how to use the school's online catalog.


I found the best way to get the kids to use it was to get them to explore
it without instruction and then have them write a set of step-by-step
instructions that the younger students could use.  Takes a couple of
sessions but they love it.

When the instructions are finished, I give them to the younger guys and ask
them to test drive them and add anything missed out or that they also
discover!

Then they go back to the older kids who, in groups of 4, must then come up
with a common set that can be used as wall posters!

Student-centred, purposeful, self-evaluative and my brain isn't strained.
AND they all use the OPAC all the time.

We are all winners!

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

T. 02 6205 6162
F. 02 6205 7242
E. barbara@dynamite.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
"Together, we learn from each other."

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