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Housman Elementary -
Finally got it to work and figured out a way to present it to the kids that works for me.

I'm doing a basic demo to the kids (who love it) by doing a compare/ contrast of a bricks and mortar library to a cyberspace library. Discovered it has "Can I Have a Tyrannosaurs, Please Dad in it, which I also have in hard copy - and it's a tie in to the Smithsonian Dinosaur scholar that will be here. Do a compare / contrast to cyber book/ real book. One you can read on the bus, the other the entire class can share etc.

Also show how they can look up Dinosaurs in the E-Books and how to do it in Merewether (also a sneaky way to point out the bricks and mortar library has way more books).

Housman Elementary
Children’s E-Book Center
Objective:
Introduce Children’s E-Books to the teacher and provide a center-oriented activity that they can use in their classroom. The activity also needs to be something the librarian can use as either a center or as part of their lessons.

Materials:
Presentor, computer with internet connections, screen, Genre’ Game Board,
Quasi – Cinquain sheet, stickers, pencils, overhead projector and a transparency of a blank Cinquain & a Genre’ Game Board.

Procedure:
Demonstrate Children’s E-Books. Explain that the books can be access via author, title or subject.
Show the game board, explain that the students will explore a book of their choice within each of the categories & complete the Cinquain. Once the Cinquain is completed they get a sticker for the genre. When the Genre Game Board is full their get free time on E-Books (or any other reward you choose).

Demonstrate a book and working with the class complete a Cinquain. I chose The Night Before Christmas because a. it’s multimedia and b. most of the children are familiar with it. The words used in the Cinquain don’t have to actually come from the book, they just have to be suitable.

Comments.
I decided to use a Cinquain (actually it’s a quasi since I’m not going to be fussy about the number of syllables) so that I had some sort of proof that the student actually looked at the e-book and didn’t just click around aimlessly. It’s also a good vocabulary exercise. This is a project I’m going to do with my “free timers” as well as kids who can’t do Health Fitness and are hanging out with me during specials. It doesn’t require much supervision or one on one (which was another of my objectives).   I’m hoping my primary teachers will incorporate it as a center.

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