Celebrate February with SchoolRooms!

 
SchoolRooms features February 2009 celebrations. Check out the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in the High SchoolRoom main lobby. Then click into Government & Citizenship SchoolRoom for more Lincoln content.

Learn about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Explore the Life Science Schoolroom in Middle School and High School.

February is Black History Month, which SchoolRooms is featuring on the main page. Then explore the U.S. History SchoolRoom for more information.

Test Preparation
Are you and your students gearing up for high stakes tests this spring? Help is available from your school library and INFOhio. SchoolRooms has links in the Educators Guide to specific test strategy Web sites. You can find test preparation that is grade level specific easily.  Follow this path in SchoolRooms:

	Go to Educators Guide.
	Choose the grade level (Elementary, Middle School or High School).
	Choose Assessment.
	Choose Test Prep Sites.

Be sure to check out the front page of the Educators Guide and its excellent test information links. Also, test information is available by searching the Educator Guide or Grade Level of SchoolRooms using terms such as ACT, SAT, AP, essay tests, test anxiety and other combinations. Web sites that have excellent content are just a click away. Gone is the time spent searching out the information.

When promoting test materials, be sure to include LearningExpress Library. Check out the new interface with test preparation materials that are just a click away.

INFOhio's SchoolRooms provides a single, student-friendly interface to high-quality content from school library catalogs, online databases, 3 million Best of Web teacher-selected Web pages, as well as statewide digital resources. Content is presented in virtual Rooms that help students discover information, provide educators with access to quality materials and enable parents to find appropriate resources for improving their children's education.

Question about SchoolRooms? Click on Frequently Asked Questions about SchoolRooms and get your questions answered.

SchoolRooms is provided to you and your schools by INFOhio. Link to SchoolRooms from the INFOhio home page: http://www.infohio.org. Then choose your school district. For home use, you will need a username and password, the same that is needed for other INFOhio Core Collection resources. Contact your school librarian for this information.