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Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Students will organize grocery...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson plan introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
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Class Flow: Weather Dewey
[Free Registration/Login Required] Want to teach about the Dewey Decimal System? This flipchart will help!
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Middletown Thrall Library: Do the Dewey
Can you find things on your library shelves? This site from the Middletown Thrall Library helps you learn about Dewey Decimal classification. Play the interactive games to quiz yourself when you've explored the site.
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Class Flow: Can You Read a Spine Label?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a library skills lesson on how to read a call number on the spine label for fiction and everybody books (5th graders also studied biography spine labels). Followed by small group evaluation,...