Ms. Inman

Welcome

Welcome to our Blog! Information Literacy is applied everyday in the media center.
The Dickerson Media Center houses over 16,000 non-fiction, reference, and fiction books on a wide variety of topics. Students can check up to 3 books for a 2 week time period except reference books which are limited to one at a time for overnight only.

We have 23 computers with access to the internet.  We subscribe to several research databases which include full-text periodical and reference works including general as well as subject specific encyclopedias.

Young Adult Authors

Visit the media center website to access links on young adult authors.  The young adult information work sheet is also available from that page.

Holiday Traditions Around the World

Use the following website to access information on holiday tradions around the world.

Holidays Around the World

Earth Science Project Resources

Mrs. Moore's classes working on science projects will be using Thompson Gale's
Science Resource Center which can be accessed from the Media Center Website.
(A password is required for home use.

Students will be siting their sources for their bibliography using MLA style.
For help with formating each citation students may use The Landmark Citation Machine website.

Bibliography examples.

Virtual Earthquake

This link will help you find the epicenter of an earthquake.

Virtual Earthquake

Science of Earthquakes Webquest with USGS

Use the links on the U.S. Geological Society web site to answer questions on earthquakes.

Download earthquakes.doc

Web site for USGS

Information for Africa project

Books in the media center can be found under the following Dewey Decimal Call no.s:
Geography & Travel 916, and 960s.                Reference books - Ref. 960

Cobb Virtual Library
            Culturegrams
             Grolier’s Lands and People
              e-Library – if you need a current event or picture from your country
              Gale Discovering Collection has The Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, & The Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Gale is also a good source for multimedia pictures and primary source documents
Contact the media center if you need the username or password for home access.

From the Media Center Website, go to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This resource includes the Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography .  Download resources_for_research_on_Africa.doc . You should have the password for home use. 

Destiney’s Webpath express is a good database of educational website similar to Nettrekker – searchable from school.

CIA World Fact Book is also a great resource

Pathfinder for Animal Habitats

Books in the media center in non-fiction

Animals and their habitats – 590s and in Reference @ 590s.

Biomes and environment – 577-578

On the web

Dickerson e-books and the Science Resource Center

Dickerson Middle School media center has purchased several informational electronic reference books for use from school and home. Thompson Gale e-books allow mulltiple users to search or browse scholarly reference articles in science, histrory and popular culture at any time of the day. Dickerson's e-books include the following titles:   Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource

     Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography

     Renaissance & Reformation Ref. Library

     Renaissance Encyclopedia for Students

     U*X*L American Decades

     U*X*L Encyclopedia of Water

This year Students also have acess to The Science Resource Center

These resources require a password for home access.

Download pathfinder_for_animal_habitats.doc

Another great site for information about our animal and its habitat is Enchanted Learning at: http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Rocks on the Web

Mr. Ledoux's classes will use the following web site to answer questions from their Rocks on the Web WebQuest.

You can also find great science information from the Gale Science Resource Center.  You need a password for home use.

Age of Exploration for 6th grade research

Attention sixth grade Social Studies classes, the following two sites are great for learning about the "Age of Exploration." 

Mariner's Museum

Gale Jr. Reference Collection and Gale Discovering Collection - This site requires a password for home access.  Contact the media staff, if you do not have this password.

Sites for Science Projects

Destiny, Webpath Express is a great source for finding educational sites for all subjects.  Like Nettrekker, the sites searched on Webpath Express display the readability level.

eLibrary contains many science magazines and reference books.  You can either search for an article on a particular topic, or you can click the "topics" tab, then browse pre-selected periodicals and reference articles available on different topics.

The Cobb Virtual Library houses two other sites with great science information. Grolier's has 3 general encyclopedias in addition to The New Popular Book of Science and 2 other social studies encyclopedias.
The Gale resources are also great for science research as well as biographical, social studies, health, and literature research. The Gale Jr. Reference Collection is for middle schools and Discovering Collection, which has a little more technical language, is used by high schools and some universities.