Good morning!
After receiving no responses to my inquiry about creating a birthday card to
teach almanac skills (though I received many requests for the lesson)I
started to create my own. As luck would have it, I just outlined the lesson
when I came across the original lesson in School Library Media Activities
Monthly. It is in the January 2007 issue and is called 'Using an Almanac
for a Birthday Bash'. The idea is to have each student use the World
Almanac to create a personal birthday card. The card will highlight events
that happened during the year in which the student was born. After teaching
basic almanac skills (ie. index, headings, maps, pictures of year, etc.)
students will have a choice of answering different questions to put on their
card.
Examples of questions include:
who won the World Series
who won the Super Bowl
who won the Nobel Peace Prize
What is your zodiac sign
Month, day, year you will turn 21 (perpetual calendar)
Find an entertainer who shares your birthday
What important event happened in the year you were born
What is the meaning of your first name?
Etc.
I plan on introducing the questions and brainstorming with the kids what
keywords they could use to find the information in the index to answer the
questions.
Students can then choose four questions of interest and fill in a template
you've created for a baseball type card. (Using the perpetual calendar
involves a bit of work but once you get the hang of it there are all kinds
of possibilities for kids to explore.) Cut and paste a digital photo of the
student on the front and voila!
Good luck.
Kate Summerlin, LMS
A.W. Cox School
Libraries, places of buzzz.... not shhhhh!
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