Students are Teachers!

Before the lesson: Students will have learned how to search, locate, access, and use the resources in the Library. This instruction has taken place over the previous weeks and has mainly been review since fifth grade students (as well as some fourth grade students) have been taught these concepts in depth from grades 2-4.

Students will be divided into groups of 4-5 students each. Each group will choose one or two of the following topics:

Using the OPAC
Locating Nonfiction
Locating Fiction & Easy Titles
How to Use a Shelf Marker
Library Etiquette
Dewey Decimal System

Students sit down and complete the following steps:

1. Each student chooses a role in the group: group leader, recorder, time-keeper, group liaison (comes to me with questions on behalf of the group)
2. Create an outline of their video including setting
3. Write a script
4. Determine roles in the video for each student
5. Shoot the video
6. Edit the video
7. Present to the large group

Students are creating these videos in order to teach the younger students how to properly use the Library. They will be posted on all the computer stations in order to be seen by the younger students when questions arise.

At the end of the project, students will write a reflection paper detailing what they have learned from their experience and how (or if) they would do things differently if they had to do it over again.