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The Crete Public Library has a number of special resources available for patrons, teachers and students to use.
Investigating the Case for the 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink) : An Educational Recycling Kit
Developed by the Illinois Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, this kit includes videos, educational resources and a variety of products made from recycled materials. Crete Public Library was one of ten libiraries in the state selected to receive the kit, which is suitable for teaching the importance of the 4Rs to ages K-adult.
Rub-A-Dub-Dub: Some Poems in a Tub
Through a LSTA Grant project, the Children's Services Department has everything you need to present a great poetry or folktale unit already assembled for you. Ten tubs are available for checkout. Each tub has a basic theme and contains 15 to 20 books. We can also include various hands on resources such as magnetic poetry, flannelgraphs, puppets and videos. Read more...
Picturing America
The Crete Public Library is proud to be a recipient of the Picturing America grant, an initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Assn. This art initiative brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries so students and citizens gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of art. The library received high-quality reproductions of forty works of different types of American art covering everything from portraits to sculpture, 18th century to contemporary. These prints and corresponding teacher resource guides are available for checkout. Read more ...
To view all of the Picturing America prints click on http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits
Explore Lincoln's accomplishments and the contributions of his thoughts, ideals and actions in a way that will enlighten and inspire your students.
These self-contained kits are designed for use in grades 5 through 8 but can be adapted to suit both older and younger students. Each kit contains multiple copies of age appropriate books, reproduction documents, artifacts and photos, music CDs, and videos as well as lesson plans and a Teachers Resource Guide CD. Kits include four units of study on the life of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Era.
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The Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits address Illinois' learning standards. They meet the needs for integrated curriculum by combining social studies topics with Language Arts, Reading, Fine Arts, and even, Mathematics, Geography, and Science. These kits and their concepts provide experiential learning using concrete objects and situations.
Funding for this project was awarded to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum by the Illinois State Library, a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).
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