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Helping Students Study and Learn: A School/library Partnership. What is learning?. Copying and memorizing are not learning Students need to learn How to actively and effectively STUDY How to FIND information How to UNDERSTAND information How to ORGANIZE and REPRESENT learning
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Helping Students Study and Learn: A School/library Partnership
What is learning? • Copying and memorizing are not learning • Students need to learn • How to actively and effectively STUDY • How to FIND information • How to UNDERSTAND information • How to ORGANIZE and REPRESENT learning • HOW TO PLAN the process of doing research
Graphic Organizers Interrelationships: Components of Training Workshops Process: Making Macchiato Relationship: Roles of Librarian Hierarchy: Local government
Types of Information Tools in Information Resources • Table of contents • Headings • Glossary • Index • Charts • Text features (bold, size…) • Visual supports…. Colour, photos, diagrams… • ACTIVITY: With a partner, identify each of these structures in an information book. Then, prepare a “test” for your partner to find specific information using each of these features within an individual information book.
Dictionaries • Many types for different reading abilities and purposes. • Most are complex and difficult to use. • Other strategies to determine of unfamiliar words: • Ask someone • Use definitions and context clues from the text • The female lays a clutch, or group of eggs. • It is herbivorous, which means it is a plant eater. • Some sea turtles migrate almost 1000 miles to breed, nest and lay their eggs. • Use word part clues -- • “Prehistoric” – pre-= before, - before recorded history • Identify unfamiliar key words before reading and discuss them with students
Maps, Atlases and Globes • Different forms • Tools for using these references • Matching purpose with the proper resource • New technologiesand mapping
Sharing the Information • Write report • Give a speech • Make a poster • Drawings/Illustrations • Make a model • Develop a graphic organizer
How do Canadian sports compare with Ethiopian sports? Soccer Football
Comparing Canadian Hockey & Ethiopian Running Ethiopian Runners win every medal! Professional hockey in large indoor rink Ethiopian children practice their running skills. Canadian children enjoying outdoor hockey
ACTIVITY: Creating a Graphic • Group 1: How to make injera (process/sequence) • Group 2: Key times in Ethiopian history (time line) • Group 3: Diagram and label the parts of a tukel (drawing with labels) • Group 4: Compare jobs in the city with jobs in the country (venn diagram, compare-contrast chart) • Group 5: Graph library statistics (e.g., bar graphs, pie charts) • Group 6: Diagram how government is organized in Ethiopia (hierarchy)