Bear Exploration Center Library

Dorothy HuntNBCT

dorothy.hunt@mps.k12.al.us

General Information:  

The library has over  6,000 items (books, ebooks, and professional collection)

Loan Period:  Students can check out books for one week.  They may renew their books if needed.  

Loan Privileges:  All students must have a permission slip on file to borrow a book. K-2 may check out 2 books at a time, and 3-5 may check out up to 4 books at a time.

Restricted Books: If a book might be too mature for a student, a permission form will be sent home for parents to sign.  They must return the form signed to be able to check out a book.

Lost or Damaged Books: Must be paid for or replaced with another book.

Budgeting Committee: Administration, Librarian, Teacher, Parent, Student

Collaboration in the Library:  Teachers and the librarian work together to continue learning from the classroom while at the same time learning library skills, such as book location and safe searching practices.  Below, we are learning about force and motion.  The students researched Newton's Laws and force and motion experiments.  The students then made a car out of Legos, drove it down the incline three times, and measured the distance each time.  They analyzed their experiment and improved on it each time.  They had to describe their experiment using proper physics language.  I introduced books on physics as well as fiction books that incorporated physics in them,  and how to locate them in the library.