by Library | Jan 16, 2015 | Class resources, Library News
Grade 1 is investigating challenges and how we overcome them. In the library yesterday at Hisar Mrs Paze and I read the book “Hands and Hearts” by Donna Jo Napoli. Donna Jo will be with our school in March as our first ever writer in residence. Hands and Hearts is about a mother and daughter’s day at the beach. Together the play and talk – only they use sign language to talk. Donna Jo has included 15 signs in her book and yesterday we tried to learn some of the signs. We also tried to find the sign for “read”. Here is a link to the American Sign Language website to find the sign for “read”
The students loved learning sign language and discussed how people who are born deaf might learn how to talk using sign language. Below are some photos of one of our students who joined us after the story had been read – he is reading it himself and trying out the signs.
by Library | Jan 14, 2015 | Class resources, Library News
Grade 6 Resources for Philosopher information
Places to look to help you find three different sources of information about your philosopher.
- Destiny Quest: https://iics.follettdestiny.com Your own username and password to log in.
Search for the philosopher name in the find box and then click on the “Web site” tab. You can filter the results to your grade level. You will find websites about your person.
To cite the website you can put the website in a resource list and then make a citation from the list.
- Encyclopedia Britannica online: http://school.eb.co.uk/ Username: istanbulics Password: Britannica
Select Intermediate level or Beginner depending on your level of English then put the philosopher name in the find box
You will find articles, video and photographs. To cite the article or video look for the cite button.
- EBSCOhost: http://search.ebscohost.com/ Username: s4091389 Password: password
Once in the main screen select Searchasaurus. Put your philosopher name in the find box. You will find newspaper and magazine articles.
Click on the article you want to read. Click on the “HTML” and at the top of the page is the citation information.
- Watch Know Learn: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ No log on necessary. These are videos found by teachers. Use the search box and put in your philosopher’s name. Be careful with the results as there will be some videos that are for senior high school. Each record has the age of the students for whom it will be useful. Teachers rate these in terms of helpfulness.
To cite copy and paste the url.
WHY are your citing your sources?
So your teachers can see that you have used – a website, an article, an encyclopedia entry, a video.
HOW can you cite your sources? Easybib add on in Google Docs
by Library | Aug 30, 2014 | Class resources, Library News
Classes have begun at IICS and already our students are hard at work researching information for their courses. The grade 11 Environmental Science class will be using EBSCO and Google to find journal and newspaper articles. These slides show the tools students can use to locate “good” information.
by Library | Mar 25, 2014 | Class resources, Library News
With our students doing a lot of web based research I have set up a way to help them find good material. I am collecting useful websites and adding to a “livebinder” site. I have created a site for IICS library and so far I have started collecting resources for History and for Grade 6 exhibition students. This is a work in progress. The permanent place for this is here under the menu tab “Web resources for students” I hope this will grow to be a great resource for our school community.
Livebinders websites for our students
by Library | Nov 6, 2013 | Class resources, Library News
This week Grade 10 were looking at how to create in text citations using MLA format
