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Kids' Club Skip to main content NASA Kids Club › Text Only Site Jan/Feb 2016 Issue Meet Your Learners Where They Are: Virtualizing the School Library As author Brenda Boyer notes, the proliferation of BYOD, 1:1 device programs, and blended and online learning opportunities for students makes it critical for school libraries to meet the challenge of providing services, resources, and instruction in virtual environments. To that end, Boyer lays out a comprehensive road map to building and maintaining that virtual environment. THE NEW MEDIA CENTER: Resources for the New Media Specialist--DPLA’s Primary Source Sets and Ben’s Guide, Refreshed! The recently released Primary Source Sets from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the updated Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government are new examples of valuable resources that make access and teaching much easier.
Getting Started with Reading Bear Quick "Getting Started" Video General Information about Reading Bear: Q & A on who Reading Bear is intended for and the thinking behind the program How to Get the Most from Reading Bear: how to use Reading Bear as part of an overall program to learn how to read What Path Should I Take through Reading Bear?: advice on using Reading Bear in particular school and home situations The Reading Bear Software: tips on how to use the system Videos of the Presentations The Interludes What is Reading Bear and who is behind it? Please see our About page for a basic summary and personnel. What age level is Reading Bear for?
project-laptop: Microsoft Mouse Mischief Draw 1. Run installation process When you click run or instalation you click “I accept the license for Miscrosoft software” and next click “Install” Draw 2. Accepting license program Kids Learning Websites & Games
WEB 2.0 Tools I have known about some very interesting web 2.0 applications for a while. The obvious ones like wikispaces, wikipedia and alike, but also the online applications like word processors, spreadsheets and media sharing spaces like flickr. There are however many more that are really worth looking at. The Book Fairy-Goddess: Book Genres for 3rd-5th Just like with the younger grades, when October begins, I start getting into the more "meatier" lessons with 3rd-5th grade as well. These lessons are often taught during one or two library lessons, but will also carry on throughout the entire year. The first of these "meatier" lessons is on the concept of Fiction and Non-Fiction books. My goal in these lessons is to get the students to understand that if they can figure out what type of book they are reading, they can then get their brain focused on the proper way to "read" that type of book to get the most out of it. I combined the use of a poster and a powerpoint presentation that I created, and had them both up on the board as we began.
mswitten - Big6 & Super3 Resources Big6 & Super3 Research Process ResourcesPD AgendaBig6 Resources The chart linked above details each step of the process and offers online and offline resources. The table and its contents are a mash-up of the following resources: Other great places to find out more:A Great Place to learn about the Big6 and access step-by-step ideas and teaching resources. It will walk you and your students through the whole process.Kathy Shrock's Guide to the Research Process - not exactly Big6 but a fantastic resource for different parts of the process.How To Do Research - The Kentucky Virtual Library presents a great process for kidsBig6 Wiki: WebGuide: Search strategies and research skills organized in the Big6 framework. Rob Darrow, Library Media Teacher, Clovis Unified, Clovis, CA.Link to downloads of Big6 Units, Lessons, Templates (Grades 3-6)Zongony Adventure: A WebQuest to Teach students Grades 3-6 about the Big6Tools and Graphic Organizers to Teach the Big6 Research Page:
Grade 5 Links Cotton Creek School >> Library/Computer Lab >> Cotton Creek Links >> Grade 5 Please note that these links will take you out of District 118's website. District 118 is not responsible for the content of these site. Why Use a Database? Subscription Databases » Why Use a Database? Why Use a Database? What is a subscription database anyway? And why should I use one? A database is simply an organized collection of related information. On some databases you can search for digital versions of magazine and newspaper articles. So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows “In Google we trust.” That may very well be the motto of today’s young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the “digital natives” due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others. That may not be true, as it turns out. A new study coming out of Northwestern University, discovered that college students have a decided lack of Web savvy, especially when it comes to search engines and the ability to determine the credibility of search results.
Luckeyfrog's Lilypad: The Perfect Book to Teach Asking Questions! Okay, I have a new favorite reading lesson-- my asking questions lesson! When I got a chance to work with Scholastic last spring, they gave us a bag of swag that any teacher would love, and it included the book This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen, which is perfect for teaching a reading lesson about asking questions! (I’ve linked it to Amazon here, but I also highly recommend finding it through Scholastic Reading Club :) On my CRAFT board, we list "Ask questions before, during, and after reading" as a reading comprehension skill (although some of my kids think it belongs under Response to Text, so we concluded that it could go as either!).
Picture Books on YouTube One thing I love to do with my kids is to browse YouTube for fun educational songs and videos that we can watch together. I have found so many amazing picture books on YouTube. Most are animated and set to music making the stories come to life. SO many of our favorite stories are read and told in a fun way on there. I made a great big list of them for you to check out. Be careful you will get sucked in and stay on there WAY too long!!