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/#/

Thank you for coming!If you have questions, email me at

kwaller@wcpss.net