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Are your students overwhelmed by their screen time and unsure of its effects? Help them take control of their digital well-being! Empower students to reflect on how their daily tech use impacts their emotions and create a path towards healthier tech habits. In today's digital age, students are constantly connected, but many struggle to understand the effect this connection has on their emotional health. As a school librarian, you are in a unique position to guide them through this self-awareness

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

NO-Prep Library Sub Plans - the ultimate solution for hassle-free substitute teaching in your library! Say goodbye to time-consuming prep work and welcome substitutes who will enjoy being in your space!  Crafting simple and engaging sub plans can feel daunting and time-consuming. The challenge is knowing who will be subbing, ensuring meaningful students engagement, and maintaining school and library standards. Preparing sub plans devours valuable time that can be used elsewhere – like processing

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

Are you concerned about how students mindlessly share their personal information within applications and webtools? Teach them how to carefully read privacy policies of the games and apps they want to use so they can be informed digital consumers.  Students are used to adults deciding which apps and web tools they should use. Many either have apps pre-downloaded on personal devices, predetermined webtools they can use on school devices, or they think that if they ask for it they will get it. Th

COMPLETE Grades 3-6 Library Curriculum for an entire school year! This Curriculum Bundle engages students in library activities that teaches coding, digital citizenship, and more. Streamline teaching with a year-long plan for library, design, and computer science skills.  Coming up with a Library Media curriculum takes time, patience, and testing. This 3rd-6th Grade Curriculum bundle includes when and what to teach students about specific library, digital citizenship, coding, library, desi

COMPLETE Sixth Grade Library Curriculum for an entire school year! This Curriculum Bundle outlines what to teach in your library media center for Sixth Grade students across multiple content areas.   Coming up with a Library Media curriculum takes time, patience, and testing. This 6th grade Curriculum bundle includes when and what to teach students about specific library, digital citizenship, coding, library, design, and computer science skills.  This 6th Grade Library curriculum support

Instill the art of paraphrasing in young researchers to deter plagiarism. Many elementary students unknowingly duplicate text verbatim from their resources. They don’t realize it constitutes unethical research behavior – plagiarism. These paraphrasing and plagiarism activities help them understand the difference!  Before students can engage in paraphrasing during research, they must understand what it is. Often, the connection between paraphrasing and digital citizenship eludes them. These provi

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 students to books that act as sliding glass doors. Students will excitedly set goals for their upcoming year by learning about different series available in the library. After they identify artifacts they would pack in their suitcase, they’ll think about why. This interactive activity prepares them to think about their own perceptions and how books can shift those by immersing them in the setting, events, and characters. All artifacts are co

NO-Prep Library Sub Plans - the ultimate solution for hassle-free substitute teaching in your library! Say goodbye to time-consuming prep work and welcome substitutes who will enjoy being in your space!  Crafting simple and engaging sub plans can feel daunting and time-consuming. The challenge is knowing who will be subbing, ensuring meaningful students engagement, and maintaining school and library standards. Preparing sub plans devours valuable time that can be used elsewhere – like processing

Help your students master the criteria for evaluating websites! Do your students think that just because they Googled™ it, they can trust it? If so, this standards-based lesson gets them looking at the internet with a critical eye. During this lesson, your students will use criteria to evaluate websites they plan to use for research. Not only to determine if they are trustworthy, but also to determine bias and intended audience. It includes: Standards-based lesson that outlines how to help stude

Recognize students’ efforts to analyze websites; identifying what to trust and believe online.  Do your students think that just because they Googled™ it, they can trust it? If so, these achievement awards are perfect for recognizing all of their efforts in evaluating websites. This resource includes the following SITE SLEUTH achievement awards: 4 pages of color achievement badges to print, laminate, cut & hole punch4 page of black & white achievement badges to print, laminate, cut & hole p

Get students to differentiate between FAKE and REAL websites.Do your students think that just because they Googled™ it, they can trust it? If so, this standards-based lesson will have them looking at the internet with a critical eye. During this lesson, your students will use RADAR criteria to evaluate websites. It includes: Standards-based lesson that outlines how to engage students in interactive practce about website evaluation. Standards listed below.Website Evaluation Criteria posters. Uses

Help your fifth graders organize their research, think critically about it, AND remember to cite their sources..Teaching fifth graders to research involves many moving pieces. Like: bibliographies, collecting important details, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing.  These note-taking sheets help students transfer reading comprehension and writing skills that students learn during reading and writing. They are similar to a main idea/details or box and bullets that many popular literacy programs teac

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

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

Teach students how to cultivate their digital identities in any setting. Even our youngest students want a YouTube Channel or an Instagram or SnapChat account.  Many of them may already have one!  What better way to help them positively and intentionally promote themselves then introducing them to the concept of social media and personal branding? This bundle includes lessons and activities that teach students how to:  Define and analyze social mediaDefine and identify social media brandingDesig