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Cybrary Class Resources

Websites for use during Cybrary class are listed below:

Dewey Decimal System Websites Dewey Challenge Game Dewey Decimal System Game Dewey Decimal Matching Games Rags to Riches Let's Do Dewey "Do We" Really Know Dewey? Dewey Decimal Classification System

Roller Coaster Websites         Funderstanding Roller Coaster - experiment with a model of a roller coaster and read about the physics that explain how roller coasters work.    National Amusement Park Historical Association (look at the library button for some interesting facts)     How Roller Coasters are Made  (background, history, raw materials, design, manufacturing process, quality control, future)   You may also use Grolier Online, or SIRS Discoverer from the Research Databases chart.  Passwords are on the orange sheet from the library! There are many print encyclopedias in the library that will also contain good information for this project.  Use the index to find interesting related facts.

Don't Buy It!

Kids.gov - History

Mr. Dufour's Math Games

Privacy Playground Three Little Pigs Game

NetSmartz Kids

Let's Say Thanks in support of our troops - this website gives you an opportunity to send a free printed postcard to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas showing your support and appreciation for their service to our country.

cy|ber|space «SY buhr SPAYS», noun.

1. the on-line environment, accessed via computer keyboard and images viewed on a monitor: Will the Internet's vast computer network bring people together or isolate them in cyberspace?
2. = virtual reality.

 Cybrary = extending the library into cyberspace

     Cybrary class will be about libraries and computers.  We will learn how to access information from books, from the Internet, and from subscription databases that have been specially designed for your information needs.  We will think a lot about evaluating information, and how to tell which information is trustworthy and accurate, but evaluating information is a really hard thing to learn, so we might not complete it in one year.  Because of the difficulty in evaluating the vast amounts of information that can be found on the Internet, we will have strict rules about Internet use. 

The Internet can be compared to a large city in that there are many resources to be found, but also there are places that would be best to avoid.  Just as it would not be safe or efficient to drop into the middle of a city with no plan, no reservations, and no map, it also is not effective to jump onto the Internet without a specific destination in mind.  Therefore, when you are in cybrary class, you will be directed as to the websites that will be allowed, and you will be expected to follow those directions at all times.