Poetry, Ecology, Baseball and more: All featured in SchoolRooms during April!

April is Poetry Month
In SchoolRooms you will find resources and ideas on reading, listening, writing and having fun with poetry. Check out the lobby areas for poetry fun. Then explore to find more. Discover ideas for teaching poetry in the Children & Young Adult Literature rooms (Elementary, Middle and High School > What to read > Poetry). Students learn how to read poetry in the Elementary Literature rooms. Plan your April poetry lessons with SchoolRooms, your school librarian, your library collection and the fantastic videos and articles available through INFOhio and SchoolRooms.

Get Green!
Get green this April with SchoolRooms. Students can dig into learning with ecology and Earth Day information. Read about the environment and share ways your school can become green this April. SchoolRooms provides links to authors and books, Web sites, biographies, slide shows and more. Find out about the first environmentalists and read up on Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Rachel Carson. Search in SchoolRooms to find articles, videos, and Web sites that stimulate everyone to grow their awareness of planet Earth.

Baseball opening day and beyond
Are you ready to hit homeruns as the baseball season begins? Get thinking about math and statistics. Grade level appropriate tools on statistics and graphs are a click away in the Math rooms .  SchoolRooms will help you learn how to collect, analyze and display data. Use SchoolRooms to make math a hit!

Getting ready for college
Spring is the time students focus on their final college choice. Help parents get their children ready for college with the resources in the Parent’s Guide in SchoolRooms. Follow the path to this information: SchoolRooms >  Parent’s Guide > High School > Career & College.

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.

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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.