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Alex: Play the Dewey Decimal System Game
This lesson introduces the 10 main categories used in the Dewey Decimal Classification System for non-fiction bookshelf arrangement. A slideshow will be presented to students to help them learn details about the Dewey Decimal...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System
This instructional activity 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. Young scholars...
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Alex: Know the Dewey: That's a Rap
Middle school students develop an understanding of the organization of the library through demonstration, creative writing, book searches, and Internet use.
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Alex: Diving Into the Dewey Decimal System
This instructional activity reinforces an introduction to the Dewey Decimal System to grades 3-5 with a game. Small competing groups locate books on the shelves. Groups are given a time limit to locate as many books from a numbered card...
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Better Lesson: Dewey Decimal System for Ordering Decimals
The Dewey Decimal System is used in libraries all around the world. The foundation of this system is based upon ordering decimals.
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Dewey Decimal Numbers for Kids
Kid-friendly, but not condescending category names are given for all the 100 divisions of the Dewey Decimal System.
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Monroe County Public Library: How to Use the Dewey Decimal System
An overview of the Dewey Decimal System, with a list of the categories.
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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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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,...
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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.