:Where in the Library?
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Approach: Station  Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Identifying appropriate resources in a library
Resources: Computer program on laptop computer
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Questions / instructions:
This activity uses the computer. Click on the button which says Where in the Library?
The computer will tell you what to do. [Click on images top enlarge.]
 
% responses
2005 ('01)
Y4
Y8
computer instruction:
You’ve just moved to a new school. Your teachers gives you a picture of the library. She asks you to point to the section on the library map where you could find some things.
 
[No soundtrack. Each library section highlights in colour when the mouse is rolled over it. Once the student has clicked on their choice of library section for the book description, the screen automatically calls up the next description, in sequence, as per adjacent.]
 
Click on the section of the library where you would find:
Information on New Zealand spiders
non-fiction
61
76
Encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other books to refer to.
reference
41
74
Books written by Roald Dahl.
fiction
45
76
Whether the library had any Margaret Mahy books.
Remember they may be out.
catalogue
22
51
Stories for younger children – books with lots of pictures.
picture books
58
86
A World Atlas.
reference
30
71
Topic books.
non-fiction
42
69
Books on how to care for a rabbit.
non-fiction
53
84
Books in the Harry Potter series.
fiction
51
87
Where you’d look up your topic search terms to see if the library had any books.
catalogue
46
81
Total score:
10
4
27
8–9
13
35
6–7
17
16
4–5
23
12
2–3
32
8
0–1
11
2

Commentary:
Sixty-two percent of year 8 students, compared to 17 percent of year 4 students, correctly identified where to look in a school library for solutions to eight or more of the information tasks.
 
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