I started by telling them a silly story about Mr Dewey, his wife, and their big house which was full of books. obviously when his wife couldn't find her favourite cookery book she set him the task of sorting all the books out to make it easier to find what you want. The story explains how he organised all of knowledge into the 10 main subject areas and then gave them subject numbers. The students are then given a floor plan of his house and have to label each room with the main subject area, the main Dewey Shelf number and then run around the MRC shelves to find each subject area, note the colour on the spine labels and then finally colour in their floor plan. http://mrctda.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/year-7-informa…-programme-ddc/

1. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
At the end of this session you will be able to....
Locate Non-Fiction Books
Information Literacy
At the end of this session you will know....
How the Non-Fiction books are ordered
How to use the Non-Fiction Spine labels
How to find Non-Fiction Books by main subject area & colour

2. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Are you sitting comfortably?
Information Literacy
Melville Dewey

3. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Room 1 = Thinking = 100’s
Room 2 = Religions = 200’s
Room 3 = Community = 300’s
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Room 4 = Languages = 400’s
Room 5 = Sciences = 500’s
Room 6 = Technology = 600’s
Room 7 = Sports, Arts & Hobbies = 700’s
Room 8 = Literature = 800’s
Room 9 = History & Geography = 900’s
Room 10 = Reference e.g. Encyclopedias = 000’s

4. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
The next challenge is to complete the map of Mr Dewey’s
house.
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Write the correct
Dewey number and the
main subject
in each room
Don’t worry I’ll put the previous screen back on for you
But beware – things will start disappearing
so write quickly........

5. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Room 1 = 100’s = Thinking
Room 2 = 200’s = Religions
Room 3 = 300’s = Community
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Room 4 = 400’s = Languages
Room 5 = 500’s = Sciences
Room 6 = 600’s = Technology
Room 7 = 700’s = Sports, Arts & Hobbies
Room 8 = 800’s = Literature
Room 9 = 900’s = History & Geography
Room 10 = 000’s = Reference e.g. Encyclopedias

6. Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
To complete the challenge we will need to go into the
MRC
Each section has a certain colour spine label
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In pairs
your challenge is
to find out the
colour of the spine
labels for each
section
Then colour in your map of Mr Dewey’s house