These Dewey Decimal System activities invite middle school students to visualize the topics included in each Dewey 100’s section in the library. Includes a lesson presentation and two short projects.
For the printable version, students need to find, cut, and paste Dewey-related images from magazines and newspapers, or printed from the Internet. For the digital version, students must be able to take digital photos, find images online, and insert images into Google Slides.
This product has 63 slides and pages, and it includes:
- 30-slide Library Classification lesson presentation
- All body text is editable in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides.
- Dewey Photo Project (9 pages, Google Slides and PDF pages)
- Dewey Photo Collage small group project (12 pages, Google Slides and PDF pages)
- Answer key and sample digital project (9 slides)
- Google Classroom Basics (3 pages, PDF file)
Students will learn:
- Introduction to library classification
- Difference between fiction and nonfiction
- Definition and list of popular fiction genres
- How your library is organized (all text is editable so you can make it fit your library)
- Why Dewey is more than nonfiction
- What each Dewey “hundreds section” means and what topics can be found in each
- Size trends for each hundreds section (900 tends to be large; 100 tends to be small)
- Break-down of each Dewey hundreds section; includes major topics in each
- Why Dewey catalog numbers are not always consistent (and how the library catalog can help)
- Why librarians do not memorize (or need to memorize) all the catalog numbers!
- “What Should We Do Now?” slide — This is very clear instructions on what students should be doing after the lesson.
Materials needed for this lesson:
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Access to Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides
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Google Classroom (if using the digital version)
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Scissors, glue, magazines/newspapers to cut, and access to a printer (if using the printable version)
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