Created by Valerie Kubick with lots of help...
Resources
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/dewey2.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=activehttp://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp261-02.shtmlhttp://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/dewey1.htmhttp://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/tour/ddc1.htmlhttp://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/public.htmhttp://wp.lps.org/curriculum/http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standardshttp://frank.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/dewey2.htm#Whathttp://wp.lps.org/mediadawes/Hogsett, N. (2006, January). Teaching Dewey. Library Media Connection, 24(4), 28-31.
The Dewey Rap
The Arts/Recreation
700s
Literature
800s
Geography and History
900s
poetry, jokes, riddles, plays
What do you like to do for fun?art, games, magic tricks, origami, sports
What's going on in the rest of the world? What happened in the past?
Biographies
92s
The story of someone's life. Biographies have their own section in nonfiction.
Graphic Novels
741.5 mostly
Technology/Applied
Sciences
600s
We have a separate section for this very popular part of The Arts (700s) category.
Generalities
000s
How things work? cars, trucks, pets, cookbooks, etc.
Leftover Stuff: Encyclopedias, almanacs, and topics that don't fit anywhere else.
Melvil Dewey
Objective:
We will be able to
locate nonfiction
books that
interest us.
Natural Sciences
and
Math
500s
How do we find anything with Dewey?
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/public.htm
Language
400s
weather, outer space, animals, trees, plants, science fair, etc.
Sign Language, Spanish, French, etc.
Philosophy
and
Psychology
100s
Objective:
We will be able to use the Dewey Decimal System
to locate resources.
10 main categories of information
Strange Stuff
Unexplained Mysteries
Each of the 10 categories are divided into 10 subcategories, but we are just going to focus on the big 10.
Religion
200s
Social Sciences
300s
Faith
Mythology
Government, money, folktales, and dragons, too. How we make sense of and live in the world around us.
What do all those numbers mean?
What is a Call Number?
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/dewey2.html
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/dewey2.htm#What
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/dewey2.html