JH-Library

Junior High School Library

Mrs. Brenda Mackey Librarian

Looking for a reader-friendly place to hang out???
Then spend some time in the library!

Our library is student-centered, with a focus on reading for pleasure. It is my goal to bring students and books together in fun and practical ways. By encouraging students to come often, I become familiar with their particular interests. This helps me guide each student to find something he/she enjoys reading, whether it be a book, magazine, website, or newspaper.

Junior High students are permitted to have two books and one magazine checked out at any time, and may keep them for two weeks. Students may also renew their books. There is no fine for late returns, but lost or damaged materials must be paid for. I use a variety of activities and collaborate with teachers to motivate our students to increase the amount of time they devote to pleasure reading. Parents, you can be a major motivator just by taking time to read at home! I encourage students to recommend materials they want to have in their library, and am happy to honor their requests. Parents, feel free to make requests, too, and stop in to see what your junior high school students are reading.

Resources / Reference

General Reference Materials

General curricular links ranging from art, computing, math, reference materials, libraries, museums and more.

http://www.nwoca.org/currlinks/index.html

Wood County Public Library

http://wcdpl.lib.oh.us/

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library

http://www.library.toledo.oh.us/

This site will link you to encyclopedias, magazines, and biographies of almost 18,000 Americans, medical centers, activities and learning tools, and more resource tools.

http://home.nwoca.org/INFOhio/INFOhio.htm

More resources for teachers, parents and students. Find sites on generating bingo cards; create puzzles, games and even recipes.

http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/oh_teach_infohio

Hundreds of search engines categorized for easy use.

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/index.html

Need clipart or audio and video clips check out this site for sources?

http://www.lili.org/education/clips.htm

General reference sources

http://www.refdesk.com

Research-It! Organizes a number of helpful reference tools. There are dictionaries, including a biographical dictionary, a thesaurus, and translators. Also find zip codes, stock prices, and other reference facts

. http://www.iTools.com/research-it/

Need help with research for a project, Ask Jeeves Kids

http://www.ajkids.com/

Have a math question? The Math Forum-Dr. Math can help you out.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html

Biographical Dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable mean and women who have shaped our world.

http://www.s9.com/biography/

Measure 4 Measure contains over 100 interactive sites that you can use when you need to estimate, calculate, evaluate, and translate. Find every measure converter you would expect to find, interest rate calculators, calorie counters, the Mayan Date Calendar, Morse code converter, and much more.

http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm

The Encarta Free Concise encyclopedia is smaller but similar to the "pay" Encarta. Worth taking a look.

http://encarta.com

Ask an Expert is a database with a form and e-mail links to professionals at over 200 sites who are willing to answer questions. Subjects include agriculture, arts, business, engineering, health, and science.

http://www.askanexpert.com

Sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians has a Question and Answer section where students and you can find frequently asked questions answered by librarians.

http://www.ala.org/ICONN/ ICONNECT/

RESEARCH IT! Offers a dictionary and can help you and your students translate words into French and Japanese. You can look up synonyms at this site, as well.

http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

The High School Hub is a gateway to academic resources for High School students. It features Virtual Reference Desk and subject guides for English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science.

http://highschoolhub.org/

Biographies on over 15,000 famous people.

http://www.biography.com

College Bond The smart guide to financial aid is FinAid

http://www.finaid.org/calculators/costprojector.phtml

College Net helps you get into college.

http://www.collegenet.com/

For Parents

Homework help: Family Education. Com provides tips on how to help your child with homework, how to ace a spelling test and more.

http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,3-5242,00.html

Research help - homework help -Bigchalk- The Education Network

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/db/Parents.html

World Book for Parents - more help with homework

http://www2.worldbook.com/parents/

Learning disabilities and special needs

Parents Helping Parents- Meeting Children's Special Needs

http://www.php.com/

Do you think you child may have a learning disability? Here's help at Roads To Learning- Learning Disability Resources

http://www.ala.org/roads/warnsign.html

Parenting Tips and More

Discovery School.Com For Parents reviews software video games and all sorts of products.

http://school.discovery.com/parents/index.html

Live And Learn

http://www.liveandlearn.com/cargame.html

The Whole Child

http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/

Parent News

http://parent.net/.Com

http://family.go.com/

Parenting

http://www.parenting.org/

Find the perfect game for your child at Fun Brain for Parents

http://www.funbrain.com/parents/index.html

Scholastic for Families has everything you need to encourage a love of learning

http://www.scholastic.com/families/index.htm

Parent Link List a web magazine for parents and children

http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/parent/parentlinks.html

Yahooligans for Parents - a site that helps you raise a child that is ready to learn

http://www.yahooligans.com/parents/

Want insight into your child's world? Check out Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership

http://www.cipl.org/resources.html

GetNetWise will show how to use the net safely

http://www.getnetwise.org/kidsites/cybermomsmore.shtml

Parent Involvement Project- Activities That Help Your Child Learn

http://www.doe.mass.edu/pip/activities.html

Education World- For Parents has reviews articles and more

http://db.education-world.com/perl/browse?cat_id=434

Parent Connections helps you explore current events with your children.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/parents/

A library media specialist offers her list of sites to help use the web, protect your children on the web and more.

http://home.computer.net/~dibianco/parents.html