Curriculum Collection Tips

I always manage to learn something new in the Curriculum Collection if I hang around long enough. I know we don't get many questions about this, but you never know...

• Some preservice teachers looking for books to use in the classroom expect to see books shelved by grade order. One quick thing they can do is take a title they think might work and see what reading level Amazon has assigned it (thanks for that tip, Kim!).

• Students often expect to see all the unit plan idea books in one section, when they are in fact shelved at the Dewey number corresponding to the topic of the unit. If you can convince a student to use Voyager, a good way to find these books is to keyword search the Curriculum Collection and add the words thematic unit to the search. Teacher created is another phrase you can add to the search, because Teacher Created Materials is a prominent publisher of these resources.

What do you know about the Curriculum Collection that might be useful for the rest of us Reference Desk staffers?

-Kristen