A flyer that can be used by any school library advocate to ...
A flyer that can be used by any school library advocate to remind parents anywhere in Texas why they should “Know and Use Your Child’s Texas School Library.”
Looking for a fun, professional looking and easy to use program for ...
Looking for a fun, professional looking and easy to use program for you and your students? Use Post in Adobe Spark! This free resource allows you to create posters to promote school stores, clubs, sports, etc. - post encouraging messages to students and faculty - learn about and create propaganda - engage in social media marketing - create memes about key vocabulary - digital badges - exit tickets or reflections - marketing materials like packaging (cereal box design, etc.) and more!
This 45-90 minute Google Applied Digital Skills lesson includes videos, lesson plans, ...
This 45-90 minute Google Applied Digital Skills lesson includes videos, lesson plans, and rubric. It is appropriate for middle school and high school students. It teaches transitions and animation along with collaboration.
This 3-5 hour lesson through Google's Applied Digital Skills allows students to ...
This 3-5 hour lesson through Google's Applied Digital Skills allows students to conduct research while learning about the credibility of sources. The resource includes lesson plans with 4 activities and an assessment rubric.
After an introduction to the hit show "Shark Tank," students will identify ...
After an introduction to the hit show "Shark Tank," students will identify an area of improvement for a product and attempt to sell their idea and/or prototype to potential (mock) buyers in the "Bear's Tank."
The Book Interest Survey is a great resource to use in the ...
The Book Interest Survey is a great resource to use in the beginning of the year to get to know your readers. This is also a way for students to self reflect about their own interests to be engaged in their reading.
This Desmos activity provides an interactive opportunity for students to work with ...
This Desmos activity provides an interactive opportunity for students to work with data as represented between data and the box plot that results from it. Students walk through an investigation on interpreting center, spread, and the impact of outliers on various box plots. Students will also use their inference skills to compare two box plots. The teacher has the ability to pace students on slides, pause them, and promote whole class discussion based upon individual student responses. The teacher can also anonymize students names to provide for more risk taking in their responses.Students may be reminded of their prior knowledge of a box plot from middle school before starting this lesson.This original lesson was created by Bob Lochel and modified by Emily O'Brien.
The lesson and activities teach students to recognize and explore bias and ...
The lesson and activities teach students to recognize and explore bias and media stereotyping and be able to identify and analyze propaganda techniques in magazine and//or TV advertising.
Students will read an article online about the first four presidents. The ...
Students will read an article online about the first four presidents. The online article provides scaffolds for vocabulary and reading. Students can use the online quiz to check for understanding. Students will then perform a close reading of the article following six text dependent questions. The lesson describes the activities along with the language to use for each of the questions.
Students will use the Hopscotch or Tynker App (either on an iPad ...
Students will use the Hopscotch or Tynker App (either on an iPad or web-based) to create their own video game. This project is designed for grades 6-8 but could be adopted to other grades. The project is intended for use after students complete the 20 hour course on introduction to coding on Code.org (https://studio.code.org/s/20-hour)
The student will learn through modules that can be completed on your ...
The student will learn through modules that can be completed on your own time, learn about basic programming + good CS pedagogy. Topics include debugging methods, assessing student learning, modifying lessons to students' needs, and much, much more!
This Fair Use Checklist is helpful tool for determining whether activities are ...
This Fair Use Checklist is helpful tool for determining whether activities are within the limits of fair use. This helpful tool created by Columbia University is applicable for teachers, students, and school librarians.
The PDF download is found on the bottom of the page.
Digital Citizenship for teens through Common Sense Media. From site: "Digital Bytes ...
Digital Citizenship for teens through Common Sense Media.
From site: "Digital Bytes teaches teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities that tackle real-world dilemmas. Teens learn from the experiences of their peers then create collaborative projects that voice their ideas for making smart, safe choices online."
Resource includes a facilitator guide with vocabulary, worksheets, rubric, and self-reflection. Can be used as a stand-alone or combined with other Common Sense curriculum (facilitator guide provides a chart for complementary lessons).
Students identify the main events that take place in a classic children's ...
Students identify the main events that take place in a classic children's picture book. Students will then compare and contrast the book to the film using specific events from both. Students will analyze the choices the director makes in recreating the events from the book. Lastly, students will write a movie review based on the analysis of the events.
This resource includes a link to Creative Commons video, "Get Creative," and ...
This resource includes a link to Creative Commons video, "Get Creative," and video viewing worksheet. The mini-lesson can be used to enhance a lesson segment on Copyright and Fair Use.
From the Scratch Wiki: "Scratch contains the resources available for creating a ...
From the Scratch Wiki: "Scratch contains the resources available for creating a question/answer system. This system can be used for one to be 'quizzed', or to repetitively answer automated questions. This tutorial shows various methods on how to create a question system. For each method, the ask () and wait block is used to ask questions and input answers."
Use these blocks to teach students to create a quiz for many different concepts and disciplines.
Developed as a companion edition to our Building Democracy for All eBook ...
Developed as a companion edition to our Building Democracy for All eBook (2020), Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning (2021) features more than 50 interactive media literacy learning activities for students organized around key topics in civics, government, and history education derived from the Massachusetts 8th Grade Civics and Government curriculum framework (from author introduction).
Words from "A Letter from the Dig Cit Doctors": Our intention with ...
Words from "A Letter from the Dig Cit Doctors":
Our intention with this framework is to show how a myriad of skills and concepts such as screen time, digital privacy, and media and information literacy all fit together under the umbrella of digital citizenship, and how these skills can empower students as participatory citizens in our ever-increasingly digital world.
We present this framework to all educators free of charge through a Creative Commons License. Our greatest hope is that it will help you and your education colleagues take the next step in providing a robust and authentic digital citizenship education to all students. Fondly, The Dig Cit Doctors Kristen Mattson LeeAnn Lindsey
This digital citizenship poster project includes a PDF document with specifications and ...
This digital citizenship poster project includes a PDF document with specifications and a grading rubric. This project was created as a final assessment following completion of Common Sense Education's Digital Citizenship units for Grade 6.
From www.govtech.com: Working in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) ...
From www.govtech.com: Working in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the Center for Digital Education produced this Guide to Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum to help districts address some of the challenges of moving from a print-based to a digital-based curriculum. It provides context, effective practices and resources for districts, and presents case studies of districts already implementing digital content or setting up the infrastructure to do so. We hope you find it useful and informative as you begin or continue implementing digital content and curriculum.
Mount Horeb Area School District Library Media Specialists created a long-range plan ...
Mount Horeb Area School District Library Media Specialists created a long-range plan based on the Future Ready Schools Framework. The Board of Education reviewed and approved this plan on January 3, 2021.
Dr. Krashen, professor emiritus from the University of Southern California, is a ...
Dr. Krashen, professor emiritus from the University of Southern California, is a linquist specialist who strongly supports school libraries. He explains the intention of this paper as, "My goal in this paper is to suggest another approach that is consistent with theory and research: self-selected pleasure reading in English. Libraries and teacher librarians play a central role in carrying out this suggestion."
Helping student select information resources in a digital/technological environment is crucial as ...
Helping student select information resources in a digital/technological environment is crucial as we move forward to library planning. I would use this as part of a lesson on using Badgerlink and, more specifically, Explora resources. This can be used as a culminating activity after you have already taught the students how to use Explora and can be used to assess how well the students have learned what you have taught. Pair children up to complete the scavenger hunt as teams. Provide prizes or badges for completion.
Students will exploring how chaning the equation of a parabola on Desmos.com ...
Students will exploring how chaning the equation of a parabola on Desmos.com will give you similar graphs. These equations are all in vertex form and will ask students to determine the vertex of each equation. Students will all be asked to graph each of the equations in the families as well. Original worksheet created by Curt Sauer.
This is a Future Ready School Library Plan tracker. It will support ...
This is a Future Ready School Library Plan tracker. It will support your priorities, goals, and actions to help your plan come to fruition. There is a tab for tracking and for a timeline. This can help organize your plan, as well as keep vital evidence of your progress to use with your stakeholders.
This slideshow will provide links to Free Educational Technology Tools that will ...
This slideshow will provide links to Free Educational Technology Tools that will increase student learning, teacher productivity, teacher collaboration, and communication.
Investing Strategically in Digital Resources was a Future Ready Librarian webinar recorded ...
Investing Strategically in Digital Resources was a Future Ready Librarian webinar recorded on December 11, 2018. It can be found on the Alliance for Excellent Education channel.
This is a two-part interactive game for middle school students that introduces ...
This is a two-part interactive game for middle school students that introduces them to the concepts of globalization and interdependence. In the first part, the students discover how clothing is sourced globally. The second part describes the issues related to the pieces and parts of a MP3 planner (this part is a little dated, but I have been able to connect it back to cell phones).
Games can be played as a group with the utilization of a Smartboard type device.
The resources includes an educator guide and integration with Google Classroom. I have used it as part of a larger lesson segment in Business Exploratory on Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalization.
Google Apps 101 curriculum focuses on exposing students to the Chrome OS ...
Google Apps 101 curriculum focuses on exposing students to the Chrome OS (using Chromebooks) and proper use of Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms with business education appropriate supporting activities for students. This 21 day curriculum provides all related content and instruction for teachers to confidently teach the lessons.
Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust is an educational program developed ...
Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust is an educational program developed by Wisconsin Health Literacy to help students learn how to navigate and feel confident searching for health information online. This lesson plan highlights: searching for trusted health information, how to read a webpage – quick facts and key points, how to tell if the information you found is from a good source, finding websites in other languages, and local places to use the internet.
This is the Integrated Library Media and Technology Plan for the Holy ...
This is the Integrated Library Media and Technology Plan for the Holy Hill Area School District, approved by the school board on June 1, 2020. HHASD is a 4K-8 school district with approximately 550 students. The majority of our students continue on to Hartford Union High School. The plan focuses on four areas of growth for our library and technology programs along with supporting our district's continuous improvement plan.
No restrictions on your remixing, redistributing, or making derivative works. Give credit to the author, as required.
Your remixing, redistributing, or making derivatives works comes with some restrictions, including how it is shared.
Your redistributing comes with some restrictions. Do not remix or make derivative works.
Most restrictive license type. Prohibits most uses, sharing, and any changes.
Copyrighted materials, available under Fair Use and the TEACH Act for US-based educators, or other custom arrangements. Go to the resource provider to see their individual restrictions.