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Looking at other education blogs for a bit of inspiration, there are plenty out there!   Miss Jordan is using library resources in the classroom for discussing genres. I tried using one of the genres "realistic fiction" to find some books that could be used within our collection.   Just searching for that term, and narrowing down on the left hand side of the catalogue to "Available in library" and then narrowing down to "Bundoora" campus.   Not too many results, so it was a bit narrow, but there are some good subject headings on the left that could be used instead - "Children's literature" & "Young Adult literature" may be more useful for the next search effort. Next I tried to search for another genre - science fiction.... A search for Science fiction in the main search box, and then scrolling down the page, I found that I could filter down to "Bundoora Children's Collection"  Just what I needed fo

The Animals of Australia. Some of the puppets in the large AV collection We do love our frog books! Bundoora library has some great new resources for use if you are out on placement and need a theme for creative a unit of work.   These magnetic kits, animals & a large range of puppets are available in the Audio Visual Large collection - just up the stairs on level three and do a turn to the left. The life of a butterfly in magnets Container from the AVL collection The container - look for this in the AVL collection Library staff having some fun with our puppets! You can find these resources using the library catalogue, search for " educational toys " and use keywords such as butterfly or frog