The
Sunrise Middle School Media Center has a wide variety of print and
non-print resources available for students to use while completing
school assignments and projects, or when doing their own personal
research. Materials are selected that support the units that are taught
by the team and elective teachers at Sunrise, and that middle school
students enjoy using. Areas of special emphasis are the books used in
the Accelerated Reader portion of the Middle Level Reading Curriculum
and the Reference Collection.
The Sunrise Middle School Media Center has approximately 30 computers,
2 scanners and both monochrome and color printers available for student
use. A wide variety of materials are available for students to use on
the computers to either find information or create school projects and
reports. The Internet can be accessed by all the computers, and the
media center subscribes to online resources such as Electric Library,
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online & CultureGrams for students
to use. Other equipment available includes digital still and video
cameras and equipment to "burn" cd's and dvd's.