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Learning Centers in the Elementary Library
Karen Waller, MLS, NBCTTimber 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
What is this?
What technology took its place?
Gold Mining
Fun!
Student Engagement
Why?
MAKING CONNECTIONS
Hands on!
Civil War Centers
• Social Studies – 5th 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.
Taste of North Carolina
Designing your
own AirplanePirates and NC
Collaboration with Music Teacher
On the Mill Mother’s Lament!
Art Teacher - Talked
about Seagrove Pott ery-
students made pots
PE Teacher taught the Carolina Shag
Make a cornhusk doll
or whirlygigMinerals in NC
Quilting
Reed Gold Mine
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
Bank
Employment Center
Auto Dealership Apartment Finder
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!
https://kahoot.it/#/
