Mickey Mouse's Birthday

Eighty years ago on November 18, Steamboat Willie premiered in movie theaters. The animated movie with sound featured a cartoon character named Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse and the movie were the first of many Walt Disney characters and animated movies to follow and was an immediate hit.

From this humble beginning, Walt Disney created an entertainment empire that included a long list of feature-length animated movies as well as Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and other theme parks. Most adults can link their childhood to a long list of Disney animated films and the characters and music that captured their imagination, entertained, and even enchanted them.

eLibrary Elementary BookCarts are flexible lesson plans for inquiry-based learning activities. Instead of sending students out to search eLibrary elementary, and often waste time in finding and selecting topic appropriate, assign students to open a BookCart activity that minimizes searching and maximizes learning.

BookCarts include all the information and resources that students need to complete the learning activity:

• Essential Questions for Critical Thinking that guide and motivate students
• Student Directions that list what students are expected to do with the resources
• Correlated Print Resources provide call numbers for students to include in their research
• Quizzes when appropriate to assess student knowledge of content

ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity for your students to use: "Disney Animated Movies and Characters."

This Cart includes three models of essential questions for critical thinking that you can assign to your students. You can even create more or substitute others if you wish.

Here are the instructions for you to copy this BookCart into your local collection for students to use:

• Logon to the eLibrary Elementary Teacher Edition to access BookCart Editor.
• Click the BookCart Admin link at the top right of the Teacher Edition.
• Click the ProQuest Carts tab.
• Type "Disney Animated Movies and Characters" in the Search box
• Click the Copy icon in the Actions column to the right of this title.
• Return to My Local Carts.

This BookCart can easily be edited for most effective use:

• Click the new BookCart Title with the prefix "Copy of."
• Delete "Copy of" and then type your first and last name in the Author boxes.
• Type your email address in the box next to Author.
• Edit the sample of STUDENT DIRECTIONS in the Description box.
• Option: type call #s for print resources related to this topic.
• Scroll down and click Save.
• Click My Local Carts tab to see your newly edited and ready to use learning activity.

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