Learning Centers in the Elementary Library Karen Waller, MLS, NBCT Timber Drive Elementary – Wake County

Western Expansion 5.G.1 Understand how human activity has and continues to shape the United States. 5.G.1.2 Explain the positive and negative effects of human activity on the physical environment of the United States, past and present. 5.G.1.3 Exemplify how technological advances (communication, transportation and agriculture) have allowed people to overcome geographic limitations. 5.G.1.4 Exemplify migration within or immigration to the United States in order to identify push and pull factors

What would you take? Students sat by the camp fire and filled in journals about what they would take if they were going on a journey.

Changing Technology

Gold Mining

Civil War Centers Social Studies – 5 th Grade 0 H.1.3 Analyze the impact of major conflicts, battles, and wars on the development of our nation through Reconstruction. Reading for information – making inferences

North Carolina Centers 4.G.1 Understand how human, environmental, and technological factors affect the growth and development of North Carolina.

Economic Centers Goal: Students will demonstrate their understanding that personal choices result in benefits or consequences.

Life Size Board Game + Technology

Students Face Real Life Situations

Global Centers Every grade goes to a different country at each specialist’s class during a week Exploring Haiti on the Tap Tap Making masks with recycled materials Reader’s Theater – Hope for Haiti

To be Successful! Collaboration with other teachers! Don’t forget to collaborate with other Specialists Recruit Volunteers to help centers run smoothly! Museum of History has Culture boxes you can borrow for free – you have to pay to mail it back though Center of International Understanding – Global Boxes to borrow – they pay for return shipping Ask for donations, go to yard sales, write grants

Where did I get my funding? Book Fair – PTA – funded Miscellaneous equipment needed Wake Ed Partnership - Funded NC Centers, Revolutionary War, and Economic Centers Bright Ideas Grant – Funded Global Centers Target – (Target is not funding any currently) Funded Global & Reading Rodeo (Western Expansion) NCSLMA Grant – Funded Global Centers Biogen Grant – If you have Science Centers to fund

Pre and Post Assessments We used Kahoot to do pre and post assessments before and after the centers to assess student learning!

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