3-D Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers [Paperback]

Earlene Green Evans (Author), Muriel Miller Branch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2000

Librarians, teachers, and media specialists always need new ways to engage students in learning. Here are 19 theme-based, three-dimensional bulletin board designs to inspire and direct learning in fifth through ninth grades. The boards are grouped into five subject areas, and each board and its activities can either be used alone or as part of a series. For example, the "Flight" section features eye-catching and educational boards spotlighting outer space, the Tuskeegee Airmen, hot air balloons, and NASA. More than just decoration, each board is the centerpiece of a focused effort involving numerous learning activities across the curriculum.
This work illustrates each board and gives detailed construction steps, suggestions for books and other items to include in the board's area, and several activity sheets that direct students to read, write, explore, and create as part of an engaging experience that attracts even the resistant learner. With these exciting ideas, library staff and teachers will find it easy to use these plans, or find inspiration for their own, as they add a new dimension to learning.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

A collection of ideas for bulletin boards that integrates three-dimensional elements into them. Some are more dimensional than others, and some incorporate shelves or ledges directly beneath the bulletin boards. The book is divided into six basic units or themes: apples, reading, flight, women, the Harlem Renaissance, and world cultures. For each theme, there are photos of four bulletin boards, each accompanied by a complete list of materials and steps for constructing the displays. Although the headings and main design elements are visible in the black-and-white photos, smaller print within them is illegible. The best and most unusual feature here is the long list of extended learning activities, small research projects, and writing/vocabulary-building projects corresponding to each display. The activities are intended to be used as motivators for reluctant researchers in grades five through nine. Although a mediocre purchase for its display ideas alone, the learning-center suggestions make this book worth purchasing for school libraries.-Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, NJ

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

To help teachers, librarians, and media specialists pique children's interest and inspire learning, award-winning librarians Evans and Branch compiled this collection of often innovative displays. With little explanatory text, this book simply presents the step-by-step process for constructing 19 thematic displays, all of which were successfully used by teachers and librarians across the U.S. Each example includes a list of necessary supplies and materials, instructions for building the display, a black-and-white photograph of the completed work, and extended learning activities that include matching quizzes, research and writing assignments, and discussion questions. Each chapter shares different displays based on one of the following themes: apples, reading, flight, women, the Harlem Renaissance, and world cultures. Throughout, the authors suggest easy, inexpensive, yet worthwhile ideas geared mostly to fourth- through eighth-grade curricula. Except for failing to provide answer keys for the activities that ask specific, content-based questions, this book offers everything teachers and media specialists need to construct displays and use them as learning tools. Roger Leslie
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Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078640860X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786408603
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,729,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Adds a new dimension to the student's learning experience, February 15, 2001

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3-D Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers offers nineteen theme-based, three-dimensional bulletin board designs to inspire and direct learning in fifth through ninth grades. The boards are grouped into six subject areas (The Apple Unit; The Reading Unit; The Flight Unit; The Women Unit; The Harlem Renaissance Unit; The World Cultures Unit) with each board and its activities capable of being used alone or as part of a series. Detailed construction steps, suggestions for boos and other times to include in the board's area, and several activity sheets that direct students to red, write, explore, and create as part of an engaging experience will attract even the resistant learner. 3-D Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers will enable library staff and classroom teachers to add a new dimension to the student's learning experience.