Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini—lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD—ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources—to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD—ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended—observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be