2015-2016 Library News
South Central Community School Corporation / 1st Semester
SEMESTER STATS
Name that Book Contest
Night at the Library
Reading Counts
Junior High and High School Research Projects
This year our research has started with a Google Doc the students can use for websites that are useful and reliable. All students are working towards looking for information that is credible and useful to them, rather than just "googling".
Each student chose a person to read about and research. They used a general website, online reference source and an SC database listed on their Google Doc. At the end they took a Reading Counts test over their book.
This link is a sample of a google doc that has been created for the students to use.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qtk5YqSwSOgWMm75BrOkil_gOgBRuil-tYIuAk7lnjQ/edit
8th Grade - Health Club - Ms. Werner
The health classes produced a commercial, advertisement or brochure for a health club after investigating the 4 elements of fitness.
Freshmen - Banned Books - Mrs. Bules
Freshmen classes discussed banned books. They presented their banned books in a power point and focused on creating a works cited, in-text citations, and picture citations.
Freshmen Honors and Junior English - Mythology - Mrs. Barkow
The students chose one or more mythological characters and shared their stories with a PowerPoint or Prezi. Extra credit was given to students who put their character(s) into a modern day story.
Spanish - Mrs. Allen
All 3 levels of Spanish Classes went around the world to a Spanish speaking country. The projects presented at the end were:
Spanish 1 - Design a brochure
Spanish 2 - Create a commercial
Spanish 3/4 - Design a Website using Google Sites
Business Math Class - Mrs. Gilchrist and Mrs. Cauley
The students are developing an understanding of having/owning a business. Our goal is to begin working on a business that will serve SC.
Concurrent Enrollment - Dystopia - Mrs. Barkow
Before beginning the research on a dystopia, the Senior students went to PNC and were given a tour of their campus. They also went on a "scavenger hunt' in the library to find print material and were given a mini lecture on evaluating sources using the "CRAAP" method.
German - Oktoberfest - Mr. Craft
Each class level researched a tradition of Oktoberfest and presented them to the class.
Third Grade - Indians - Mrs. Walter, Mrs, Bruner, Mrs. Morrison
The focus in the library with the 3rd grade class was to work on creating a bibliography for a print source and web source they used in their research. They all displayed a diorama of their Indian tribe in the library.
Libraries 360
- All South Central Students and Staff have had the opportunity to look at and explore our new OPAC. The 5-12 grade students have been issued a Libraries 360 card. The "big red box" the books come in on Monday afternoon is greeted with excitement. As of October 2015, we have had over 500 books come from the public library to our school.
- A presentation of the Libraries 360 collaboration was done in Indianapolis at the Indiana Library Federation Conference.