Design A School Library! Project Based Learning: Design, Plan, & Create. This project integrates elements of research, design, technology, and planning as students build their perfect library.

***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL for DISTANCE LEARNING***

See below for more details on using it with Google Slides.

There are 20 activities (1 page for each) for students to complete. Each page involves an issue or topic they must solve, design, create, or research.

As students work through each page, they will make their own decisions and choose the outcomes based on information they learn. By the end, all students will have completed the project, but each version will be based on the creator’s imagination, creativity, and knowledge base.

All pages can be geared towards multiple grade levels, although for some younger students the teacher may need to give more explicit instructions.

Students may choose to use multiple resources to complete each page. They might even choose to work with a partner, but you get final say on that.

There are 22 printable pages. Hand them out one at a time or staple them all together at once. Choose whichever way works best in your classroom. I prefer back-to-back with staples on the side like a book.

Activities and Pages include:

-Introduction:

Informational page where students find out they are designing the library.

-Existing layout:

Students draw what they current library looks like.

-Stay Or Go:

Students pick what they like and dislike in their existing library.

-Brainstorming:

Students think of what they’d like to have in their new space.

-A Series of Books:

Students pick 8 book series they’d like to have.

-Stack of Magazines:

Students pick 8 magazines they’d like to have.

-Graphic Novels:

Students pick 4 graphic novels and design the spines.

-Technology checklist:

Students pick technology items they’d like in their library.

-Technology Now:

Students pick 5 choices from their previous page and write why they want those items.

-Text All About It:

Students write a conversation, text-message style, to a friend.

-Comfortable Learning:

Students pick furniture they’d like and answer questions about it.

-Design Challenge:

Students design a furniture pice they would like to have.

-Design Elements:

Students picks colors, textures, themes, and focal points.

-Characters Welcome:

Students create a mural for the library.

-Stock the Shelves:

Students stock a book shelf with all the books they can think of.

-Technology Studio:

Students think of projects to complete in the technology studio.

-Library Website

Students design a homepage for the website.

-Blueprints and Labels

Students create their official layout.

-Bookstagram:

Students show off their work with some social media.

-The Reason Why:

Students write a summary about their design and choices.

***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL!***

ACCESSING THIS DIGITAL RESOURCE

There are two pdf files included in the zip file. To access the digital file for Google Slide open the file with the title "digital" in it. Then click the hyperlink included on the first page (inside the yellow box) to access the file online.

What you need to get started:

1. Download Link for the Google Slide Product

2. Have access to the Internet and a Google Account. (FREE)

3. Open the file on your own Google Drive and engage while in the edit mode.

4. Printer access to print out the finished product. (OPTIONAL).

Beginning your Google Slides Project:

Before you begin editing/filling in your project, it is VERY important to first make a copy of the file, on your own Google Drive.

Once you make a copy of the original file it will enable you to edit it and make any changes.

After creating a copy of the resource you can decide which slides you would like to include and which ones to delete before you assign this as an assignment.

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