How to Teach the Dewey Decimal System
This brief lesson will familiarize students with the terrifyingly oblique Dewey Decimal System.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
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Assign each student a random Dewey Decimal number.
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Take the class to the school library and have them search the stacks for a book matching their assigned number.
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Have each student describe the book she's chosen to the class.
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Have each student hypothesize what kind of books might be classified under her assigned number and compare her hypothesis to the other books she finds in the same section.
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Go over the actual Dewey Decimal description for each assigned number.
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