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Resources for Webinar #2 - SLMC Hub Academy
(View Complete Item Description)Next steps and support for Webinar #2 of the SLMC Hub Academy.
Material Type: Presentation
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History of Animal Research
(View Complete Item Description)Students are introduced to a brief history of animal research through a timeline mapping activity. A discussion abnout significant events and trends helps students understand the impacts of history on today's regulations, governing bodies, and uses of animals in research.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Hyperdoc Template for eWISE Research Model
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a template that teachers can use to create Inquiry Based Research Lessons and Units. It is a hyperdoc template that is based on the eWISE Research Model. It is broken into the 4 stages of the research model (Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize and Express). There are suggestions and details in each stage to help you plan your research unit. Feel free to copy the google doc and create your own research project.
Material Type: Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Water, Ice, and Snow - Issue 5, August 2008
(View Complete Item Description)In this issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explore what the polar regions can teach us about the water cycle and the states and changes of matter. Find lesson plans about the many forms of water, ice, and snow found in the polar regions and how to use science notebooks to integrate literacy and science.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The Last Great Race: Teaching the Iditarod
(View Complete Item Description)This article gives background information on the Iditarod race in Alaska and shows how the race can be used in Grades K-5 classrooms to incorporate science, geography and language arts. The author provides links to resources that involve reading expository tests and writing assignments as well as working with real-time data. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Writing a Research Paper on the Civil War
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan starts students on a research paper assignment about the American Civil War. Students do background research, formulate a thesis statement, and begin writing, while avoiding plagiarism.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
A World of Readers: Libraries Around the World
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students visit library websites from a variety of places, including Hong Kong, Kenya, and Scotland, to develop a global perspective and a broader understanding of the types of library services available throughout the world. They discuss services offered in their community and then form questions regarding the availability of library services in other parts of the world. Working in groups, students access library websites to answer teacher- and student-generated questions. When they have completed their research, students share their findings with classmates and compare the services available in distant libraries to their local services.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Flipgrid - Setting up your grids
(View Complete Item Description)This handout is an instructional guide for teachers who want to set up a Flipgrid account.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Copyright Law
(View Complete Item Description)This Google slide deck provides general information about copyright law and the public domain.
Material Type: Presentation
STEM Inquiry Lesson Template
(View Complete Item Description)This template supports STEM teachers and librarians in working collaboratively to create lessons that build science practice and STEM inquiry skills in alignment with state and national science standards, and that address the Common Core literacy shifts around close reading and building textual evidence.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
African American Soldiers in World War I
(View Complete Item Description)This collection uses primary sources to explore the experiences of African American Soldiers in World War I. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
Material Type: Primary Source
Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will read two traditional fairy tales and their Wild West versions. Students engage with the text by talking back to characters in Cinderella, dramatizing events in Bubba the Cowboy Prince, inserting themselves into the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and critiquing and controlling story elements in Little Red Cowboy Hat. After comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood and Little Red Cowboy Hat, students plan and create an original fractured tale.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
CS Fundamentals 4.17: Digital Citizenship
(View Complete Item Description)In collaboration with Common Sense Education, this lesson helps students learn to think critically about the user information that some websites request or require. Students learn the difference between private information and personal information, distinguishing what is safe and unsafe to share online. Students will also explore what it means to be responsible and respectful to their offline and online communities as a step toward learning how to be good digital citizens.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Web Development Lesson 2.5: Digital Footprint
(View Complete Item Description)As students have recently spent some time thinking about the actual content that will go into their personal website, this lesson takes a step back from the unit-long project (publication of a personal website) to help students articulate what personal information they choose to share digitally and with whom. It also reinforces the notion that much of the information that they choose to share digitally falls largely out of their control the moment it is released. Students begin by individually identifying appropriate audiences with whom they would be comfortable sharing given pieces of personal information. They then look at several social media pages to determine what sorts of information people are sharing about themselves or one another. Last, students reflect on what guidelines they think are appropriate for posting information online. The ultimate point of this lesson is not to scare students, but rather to experientially bring students to realizing precisely what level of control they don’t have in releasing information into the web.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is designed to assist students through multiple sessions with identifying relevant propaganda techniques in literature, discussing persuasive elements found in print and non-print media and composing a persuasive essay. Lesson is appropriate for use with a provided list of novels to include Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Stand Up to Cyberbullying (Video)
(View Complete Item Description)Kids can stop cyberbullies by standing up for themselves or someone else.
Material Type: Lesson
Adaptation of "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'": Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson plan, students retell a story using costumes and props to reinforce sequencing.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Free printable educational resources for teachers, homeschool families, and parents.
(View Complete Item Description)The resource has standards based lesson plans, graphic organizers, puzzle makers, handwriting tools, clip art, etc. Even though abcteach is through subscription, there are free resources available to teachers. Teachers can create a free teacher account to access the free resources.
Material Type: Lesson, Questionnaire
Text-based Inquiry Template for STEM lessons
(View Complete Item Description)This template provides STEM educators and their School Media Specialists with a template and a structure for developing Text-based Inquiry units that address multiple content areas.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Sight Word Poems for the Library
(View Complete Item Description)Work In Progress: These short poems feature sight words and introduce Kindergarten and First Graders to basic Library concepts. I pair them with activities from Write-N-Seek Sight Words by Immacula A. Rhodes (New York: Scholastic, 2017) to introduce the topic of the lesson and to activate prior knowledge. How I use them: As students are coming in and finding their seats, they pick up a copy of the sight word poem that has one of Rhodes’ activities on the other side. They begin doing the activity while we are waiting for everyone to get seated. Once everyone is seated, I direct them to flip over to the sight word poem side. It’s OK that they didn’t all finish the activity. They can finish it later or use it to engage with caregivers at home. I encourage the students to read the poems over and over again with their caregivers in order to help them develop fluency in reading. For Kindergarten, I read the complete poem, then I have them echo-read line-by-line. For First Grade, I read the complete poem, then we all read the poem together. Reading the poem first helps prepare the students for success in the choral reading. I never ask students to cold-read aloud in the media center. Reading aloud is a stressful and embarrassing task for many students and I don’t want them to associate the library with stress and embarrassment! Reading the poem with expression is important. It helps engage the students and echoing the expression helps them develop fluency and comprehension for their own reading. The poems are designed to introduce library lessons and serve as my Activator for the lessons. Classroom teachers sometimes follow up by having students work in pairs to practice reading the poems with expression. I hope you find these poems contribute to your students’ success!
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Vocabulary