Celebrate Earth Day with The Lorax

What better way to introduce Earth Day than with Dr. Seuss's The Lorax? What a great story! And a jumping off a point for some wonderful discussions and creative activities. Most of these are good for the K-3 set.

From Seussville.com:

What Can Your Class Do? Ideas for Earth Day and every day
A list of discussion ideas and activities.

The Lorax Project
This project helps "generate funding, create awareness and inspire earth-friendly actions." Information about friends of The Lorax, as well as games and activities.

The Lorax Project in the Classroom
Discussion questions, Earth Day toolkit, printable resources, suggested books.

Seussville: The Lorax
Interactive games and activities.

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss: Lesson Plan (Scholastic)
Lots of ideas here for science, language arts, visual arts and more.

Family Literacy Bag: The Lorax (Reading Rockets)
Crafts, printables, and more featuring The Lorax and Tell Me, Tree by Gail Gibbons.

And how cute is this?  Learn to make your own Truffula Trees at Craftjr.com.

Earth Day

Earth Day is coming up on April 22, 2012.

Resources for kids and classrooms:

K-8 Enviro-resources (Earth Day Canada)

Free, curriculum-linked K-8 lesson plans, activities and teaching support.

EarthCARE Environmental Quizzes, Handouts, Activities & Lessons (EarthCARE)
Activities and handouts about energy efficiency, water conservation, and waste reduction.


Educational Resources for Educators (Environment Canada)

Replacing screen time with green time is good for kids (David Suzuki Foundation)


I have compiled more online resources about the environment on my delicious site.

Library workshops for faculty and graduate students

From 9:00 to 12:00 on Tuesday, April 10, the library will be offering a number of enlightening workshops aimed at assisting faculty members with their research and teaching.

• Web of Knowledge – Expert Searching
• Citation Management Options: Mendeley, Zotero or Ref Works?
• Google Like a Librarian
• Know Your Author Rights: Copyright in Academic Publishing
• Scholars GeoPortal

• The Cost of Knowledge: Is Open Access the Answer?

Registration and more information available on the Library website.

More new books

Curious about what I do? Part of what I do as the Liaison Librarian for Education is build a great collection of resources for students, staff and faculty. Check out some of the titles that have come in this month at the Brock University Library. A few that look good:

The Sage handbook for research in education : pursuing ideas as the keystone of exemplary inquiry / edited by Clifton F. Conrad, Ronald C. Serlin.

Key issues in e-learning : research and practice / Norbert Pachler and Caroline Daly.

Leadership with a conscience : educational leadership as a moral science / Robert Palestini.

Succeeding with your master's dissertation : a step-by-step handbook / John Biggam.

New books for January

Check out all the wonderful new resources that have been coming in.

Grad students get new space in Library | The Brock News

New grad study space now open!

The new space features:

• 22 large study carrels
• two computer workstations
• 38 bookable lockers nearby for storage
• two lounge chairs
• bookable meeting/presentation/group space for up to 10 students

Read more:

Grad students get new space in Library | The Brock News

New changes made to Scholars Portal Search

New changes made to Scholars Portal Search

A cornerstone resource offered through the James A. Gibson Library will soon get a new look.

The current Scholars Portal Search interface Illumina will be replaced with a new one, ProQuest, that promises to deliver a better search experience.

The switchover will occur on Friday, July 29. Some users who have bookmarked a database or have saved searches via Illumina will then be required to update them.

This change will only affect the Scholars Portal Search interface and not the multitude of other Scholars Portal services currently available. This means that Scholars Portal eJournals and Scholars Portal eBooks will continue to provide an enormous selection of full-text resources to Brock users.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your liaison librarian, the Library’s help desk at 905-688-5550 x3233, or Live Help.