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Stop holding your breath while students create a username for an edtech game or tool, and sigh with relief knowing that they’ll generate school and kid-friendly usernames that keeps the lesson moving and everyone engaged. Many components of a student’s digital footprint are controlled at the district level. From their passwords and usernames, to their lunch codes, and most login information for an array of EdTech tools that you use in your library. Even with all of these safeguards in place, the

An engaging activity pack that centers around civil rights leaders lessons. These activities cultivate critical thinking skills in young minds through a dynamic and educational experience. These activities offer a meaningful and enjoyable way to teach essential information about civil rights through innovative engagement strategies. With these thought-provoking activities, you can inspire the next generation of civil rights leaders. This standards-based civil rights lesson engages students and i

USE INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT BIOMES. Get them using their background knowledge and critical thinking skills while participating in a biome sort.  After sorting animals into biomes, use fun informational passages to teach students about different biomes. In the process they’ll have fun engaging in research & taking notes. AFTER downloading this resource you’ll get:⭐ Standards - based lesson that outlines how to teach students about biomes using hands-on inquiry.  ⭐ Biome S

TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO READ, UNDERSTAND, AND ENJOY GRAPHIC NOVELS IN THE WAY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR INTENDED. Graphic novels aren't just glorified picture books. These are meaningful texts with rich stories. They use a combination of text and illustrations to help the reader figure out what's going on.  They're also more! There are some things that make graphic novels different from other books. They're filled with rich language, illustrative choices, and frames that make the plot move. As we

Help students learn how to find the books they love on the library shelves. They’ll be able to use the library catalog, spine labels, and authors’ last names to be independent library patrons.   Finding a book you want in a library is a necessary skill to being an independent library patron. Libraries have books organized alphabetically, by an author’s last name, and separate fiction from nonfiction; even if the library is genrefied. Students need to be able to:  Search the library catalog to

Active and interactive book tastings for upper elementary students to discover books that act as sliding glass doors. Get students excited to read new books, series, authors and genres! After downloading this resource you will receive a bundle of lessons, recording sheets, and activities for upper elementary students to push their reading interests and borrow new titles from the library. This resource includes:  4 Standards Based lessons that walk you through step - by - step how to facilitate t

Print, digital and unplugged activities that introduce Fourth Graders to books that act as windows. Fourth Grade will excitedly set goals for their upcoming year by learning about different series available in the library. They’ll identify their own experiences and consider experiences that are different from those. Then, they’ll choose series that provide windows to new experiences.  I like using this activity on the first day of school. It can also be used any time you introduce the concept of

Print, digital and unplugged activities that introduce Third Graders to books that act as mirrors. Third Grade will excitedly set goals for their upcoming year by learning about different series available in the library. They’ll identify their own interests and experiences and match those to series they can connect with.  I like using this activity on the first day of school. It can also be used any time you introduce the concept of Books As Mirrors to students.  They’ll also learn how to sit an

Print, digital and unplugged activities that give Second Graders a glimpse of what to look forward to in Library class. On the first day of library class Second Grade will excitedly set goals for their upcoming year. They’ll learn different types of books and series they can find in the library, and different types of activities they can look forward to. They’ll also learn how to sit and listen to a story, and transition from a story to independent work. After downloading this resource you will

Print, digital and unplugged activities that give First Graders a glimpse of what to look forward to in Library class. On the first day of library class First Grade will excitedly set goals for their upcoming year. They’ll learn different types of books and series they can find in the library, and different types of activities they can look forward to. They’ll also learn how to sit and listen to a story, and transition from a story to independent work. After downloading this resource you will re

RESEARCH BUNDLE: GRADES 3, 4, AND 5Infuse fun and enthusiasm into teaching research and digital citizenship skills. This bundle folds in play and student choice into computer science that typically feels dry and like a chore to teach. Scaffold the concepts of research, sources, and copyright for students during their first research experiences. Slowly build their capacity for note taking and citing sources as they dive into topics that they are interested in.  AFTER downloading this resource you

Keep students engaged in the research process by teaching them how to access, choose, and use resources that teach them about their topic and meet their learning needs.If your students spend large amounts of time looking for information, complaining that they don’t understand what’s on the site, or claim they can’t actually find anything about their topic, then they need to learn how to analyze resources.  Second graders can get stuck bouncing around within a database; hopping from one topic t

Scaffold the fundamental concepts of research, sources, and copyright for students during their first research experiences. Elementary research lessons build their capacity for note taking and citing sources as they dive into topics that they are interested in. The Elementary Research Lessons bundle is exclusively designed for Kindergarten through Grade 5 students. With over 40 engaging lessons, it empowers elementary school librarians and media specialists to cultivate young learners into skill

Are you an elementary librarian seeking to make your book fair more inclusive and captivating for all students? You understand the importance of creating an environment where every child can participate in the excitement of the book fair without feeling left out. These specially curated book fair activities are designed to keep things calm, purposeful, and equitable. Promoting Equitable Engagement – Not every student can purchase books at the fair, and traditional wish lists may disengage those

Empower student voice & choice with digital book reviews!Are your older students disengaged readers?  Are they circulating or reading less books than other grades?  As a library media specialist, raising readers is important to us; we want to keep books in the hands of our students.  One of the best ways to do that is word of mouth; through digital book reviews! As students review books they’ve read, they also generate reading excitement in future readers through quick book reviews.   The digita

Use these coding vocabulary activities to teach and assess coding and computational thinking!Help your students master important vocabulary terms! Students love to code and need to acquire computer science terms to master computer science.  If you teach coding or computer science to elementary students, you know how necessary but tricky learning coding vocabulary is. Robotics and coding games are incredibly engaging: students are creating algorithms, loops, conditionals, changing variables, and

Use these coding vocabulary cards to teach and reinforce coding and computational thinking while having fun!Help your students master important vocabulary terms! Students love to code and need to acquire computer science terms to master computer science.  If you teach coding or computer science to elementary students, you know how necessary but tricky learning coding vocabulary is. Robotics and coding games are incredibly engaging: students are creating algorithms, loops, conditionals, changing

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to enhance your students' digital citizenship skills effortlessly. Say goodbye to prep work and hello to engaging, no-prep digital citizenship activities. With this free resource, you can empower your students to use technology for good while showcasing their digital citizenship knowledge. When you download this resource, you'll receive 16 task cards tailor-made for elementary students to express their digital citizenship expertise. Discover 16 engagi

Make reading fluency FUN and ENGAGING with this augmented reality activity. Do you wish that your students would want to practice their reading fluency? Are you looking for some ways to jazz up fluency practice? Would you like it if they were more interested in becoming fluent readers? After downloading this lesson you will receive printable and digital resources that engage students in becoming more fluent. This resource includes:  Standards Based lesson Printable reflection sheets Students ha

It can be really hard to remember everything that needs to be included in a citation and in what order to place it. Teaching young students how to use a citation generator will save time and decrease stress. Do you wish your students could remember EVERYTHING that needs to be included in a bibliography to properly cite sources? Citation and bibliography generators make this process so much easier. Easier for you to teach, and easier for your students to engage in Digital Citizenship.   Just beca