5th Graders Explain the Dewey Decimal System

Fifth Graders Explain the Dewey Decimal System

In Winter 2019, Mrs. Peterson's students worked in trios to learn about the following Dewey Decimal System categories: 000s, 200s, 300s, 500s, 600s, 700s, 800s, 900s and biographies. They created the pages of this book to teach others what they learned.

Generalities

by:Ellie, Kirill, Dominic

000s

This category includes record books, almanacs and also dictionarys!

Dewey Category

Definitions

This section has whats called generalities. You will find records , facts, and almanacs.

People who want to learn general facts and farmers who need the weather patterns

Who would use this Dewey category?

000

Dictionaries have knowledge for people. Almanacs teach you information about the world. Atlases show you information about the world.

These books are about crazy facts and records. Weird but True is facts and Guinness Records is records.

Kirill thinks people who don't know what they want to be and want to read about things they can be, will like these.

Definition of Religion

the 200s category includes mythology, religion, and everything that falls under those two categories.

Dewey Category

Definition of Mythology

Religion is your beliefs in stuff like gods and other stuff like that.

Mythology is stuff like Greek mythology which has Zues and Posiden. And Roman which has Juna and Minerva.

Who would use this Dewey category?

If you are into history of Romans and infomation about Greek Gods. Also info about Mythology and religion.