Collections

You will find a variety of materials in the CML Collections, giving you a 'hands-on' approach to curriculum areas for kindergarten through 12th grade. To see what is available, search in the Library's Online Catalog.  Some hints for searching: To find materials located only in CMLs, use the drop down menu option and choose CML as your LOCATION. Please note that the "limits" option for CML does not work when you are searching by title or call number. For information on loan periods or circulation, please see Library Loan Policies.

Textbooks and Resources
Cassettes/Audio

Collection Connection Newsletter

Professional Tests

Puppets                                           
K-12 Magazines
Teaching Aids

Videos/DVDs

 Textbooks and Resources

This part of the collection is primarily made up of textbooks. We aim to emphasize on materials published within the last 10 years, although older textbook sets may be kept for comparison value. Due to budget and space constraints, we cannot guarantee to have the entire set for each textbook. Instead, student and teacher books for all grades are usually purchased, and from this set, a grade level will be selected for purchase of all the peripheral materials. It is our continuing goal to have current textbook sets in all curriculum areas. A large part of the book collection is idea/activity books to assist in lesson planning. CML also maintains a 'Big Book' collection of juvenile books. Most of the 'Big Books' contain teacher guides to help with presentation ideas.

Search the catalog
(Select Curriculum Materials Library in the drop down menu for the location).

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 Cassettes & Audios

Audio Cassettes and CDs: This part of the Collection contains a variety of materials, from tapes of teacher conferences to children's songs and activities.

Click here for a list of audio cassettes and cds in the library catalog

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 Professional Education Tests

CML-DeVos has a limited collection of professional education tests. These tests may be used by education professors for classroom presentations only. All other patrons must view the tests at CML-DeVos.

Click here for a listing of Professional Tests

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 Puppets

The CMLs have over 200 puppets. Many of them are from the award winning puppet company, Folkmanis. The puppets are often used when reading a book, in storytelling, or in science projects. If you wish to see a list of puppets and their images, please click the Puppet List.

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Collection Connection Newsletter

The Collection Connection newsletter is an electronic publication to showcase items found in the CMLs. Each month, the newsletter will have a focus. A variety of resources for the focus are listed, including new items, a focus-related website found on the CML web page, a section for the Michigan Department of Education, and other pertinent information on this theme. Take a look at the current and archived issues.

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K-12 Magazines

The CMLs subscribe to many children's magazines: Ask, Cobblestone, Connected Newsletter (last print issue Summer 2008, now e-journal), Click, Cricket, Dragonfly (1996-2000) only at CML-M, Faces, Kids Discover,  Mailbox (Preschool, Kindergarten, Primary, & Intermediate), Mailbox Bookbag (formerly Mailbox Teacher,1999-2009), Michigan History for Kids (2001-2009), Muse, National Geographic Kids, New Moon, Odyssey, Ranger Rick, Scientific American Explorations (1998-2002), Skipping Stones, Stone Soup, and Zoobooks.  Back issues of most of these titles are also available.  We have a subject guide bibliography at each location, which makes it easy to search for what you need! 

Professional journals related to education are located at the Steelcase Library.

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 Teaching Aids

This collection contains a great variety, from posters, hand puppets (list of Puppets), color transparencies, phonics games, cube manipulatives, a heart model, a dimensional man, world puzzle maps, and much more.

Click here to view a list of the teaching aids.

Video cameras and tripod, an audio cassette player, and slide projectors can be booked in advance and checked out by faculty. A flannel board, magnifying glasses, stencils, and eye droppers can be checked out by any patron. You will find in many of the Teaching Aids kits many different types of equipment, such as clocks, scales, beakers and test tubes, etc.

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 Videos/DVDs

CML Videos
The CMLs have a collection of over 2,000 videos in a wide range of subject areas, from teacher preparation and teaching techniques to children's videos for classroom use.  Videos may be checked out for 7 days by students and faculty, and may be booked in advance through special procedures.  To reserve a video, please contact Dawn Burnaby at burnabyd@gvsu.edu. No more than 5 videos may be checked out at a time by a patron.

      Click here for a list of DCML and ZCML video recordings in the library card catalog.

Discovery Steaming Videos
Grand Valley State education faculty and students have access to digital video/video clip service sponsored by Discovery Education. Video producers include Discovery Channel School, United Learning, and Weston Woods, to name a few. You MUST use your GVSU user ID and password to access these videos. Click Discovery Streaming Video to access these resources.