Make it Memorable
What do you remember about
your library?
Elementary School
School Pictures
Book Fair
Junior High / Middle School
Be Quite No Talking!
Sleeping
High School
Card Catalog
Research
College
Good Times! Research / StudyingOR
(Depending on what type of student you were!)
What do you want your students to
remember?
How can you make your Media Center memorable to your
students?
Planning and being prepared
• Planning ahead and being prepared makes your job easier and the students get more out of the lesson.
Do the unexpected
• Dress up in costume• It can be as simple as a book character or
someone you make up.
This is Miss Bumpkin and she is an expert on manners and cleanliness. She does a whole lesson on respecting your elders, washing behind your ears, wearing deodorant, and the importance of teeth brushing! Several books from the Media Center are tied into the lesson. The students love Miss Bumpkin!
Do the unexpected
Give them a snow day! Make it snow in the Media Center and let them play in the snow…yes in the
Media Center!!We promise it can be cleaned
up!!
Do the unexpected
• Get your students involved and make them excited about the media center.
• Get the teachers excited about the media center.
You do not have to have a huge budget to make things memorable…it also is very easy to do!
Now we will demonstrate a memorable Media lesson!
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