October

This month's activities in the Media Center:

• Mr. McGowan's World History students spent a week in the LMC learning all of the resources available to help them with History Fair. We generated keywords, created search strategies, created NoodleTools accounts to help with works cited lists, checked out our subscription databases, and links to primary documents (like the National Archives).
• Ms. Casey's AP Government class learned how to use their new interactive class wiki. Check it out at: http://hhsapgovcasey.wikispaces.com/
• Mr. Koch's class checked out books for their historical fiction preview folder project.
• Ms. Morlan's pacesetters English classes took the presidential candidate quiz at: http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460. Then did some preliminary research on assigned candidates at: http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president.php?dist=bio.php
• Mr. Cunningham's World History students spent a week in the LMC learning all of the resources available to help them with History Fair. We generated keywords, created search strategies, created NoodleTools accounts to help with works cited lists, checked out our subscription databases, and links to primary documents (like the National Archives).