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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

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 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

ALLEVIATE WORRIES ABOUT PREK BORROWING BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY. Teach them routines to independently borrow, read, & return library books. And rest well knowing they will come back the way they left. It is often presumed that PreK cannot or should not borrow books. The fear is that they will tear pages, chew on covers, and just forget to return them.  This is not so. With a few proactive steps, PreK is highly capable of and eager to borrow library books. As librarians, we do this by creating

Give young students practice with series in coding.How do you help young students understand series in coding?  Whether you are in the classroom or teaching remotely, these interactive activities provide you and students with options to practice developing series within code.  These also double as assessments, and are a perfect option for introducing Computer Science and Computational Thinking Standards. It's also a great way to help students learn how to program the robot Bee-Bot. Included

Teach students how to develop Research questions with the tools they love and know! Many students automatically turn to virtual assistants and common search engines to ask questions. Little do they realize that when researching, we need bigger and more evolved questions that don’t always have cut & dry answers.  Do you wish your students were researching with purpose? Are you struggling to teach them how to write solid research questions that require them to do actual research? If you want y

Give young students practice with series in coding.How do you help young students understand series in coding?  Whether you are in the classroom or teaching remotely, these interactive activities provide you and students with options to practice developing series within code.  These also double as assessments, and are a perfect option for introducing Computers Science and Computational Thinking Standards. It's also a great way to help students learn how to program the robot Code & Go Mouse.

INTRO TO CODING - ALGORITHMS & SERIESTeaching PreK and Kinders to write and understand code does not have to be overwhelming or developmentally inappropriate. Introducing coding and algorithms to early learners can be FUN and include real world connections. Why teach coding through routines? Coding is an abstract concept, which means our young students need concrete ways to understand it. Routines are ingrained throughout our daily lives; especially young children. Using daily routines helps t

Support and engage independence in emerging programmers with the FINCH robot.It can be difficult to know where to begin when introducing a robot or block coding.  The task cards and activity sheets give students opportunities to explore the SNAP! Jr™ software, plan programs to use with the Finch robot, and build off of their programming skills with purpose. Motion cards to use with SNAP! Jr™→ print & laminate to help students use as a planning tool before they create the code in SNAP!Visual and

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.  First graders can get stuck bouncing around within a database; hopping from one topic to

Keep students engaged in the research process by teaching them how to access, choose, and  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.  Kindergarteners can get stuck bouncing around within a database; hopping from one topic to

Help students build their digital citizenship skills as they identify types of sources for research, learn what a bibliography is, how to create a bibliography, and cite online sources. Bibliographies are a complex concept and part of the research process. And they are a critical component of researching as a digital citizen. We can make this process easier for our elementary students by using hands-on, small group, and developmental activities.  AFTER downloading this BUNDLE you’ll get:⭐Bibliog

Reflect with PreK students AND communicate with parents!It can feel like our youngest learners, our PreK Students, need the most support communicating their day’s learning with families.  Yet, it is just as important for them to reflect on their learning and be able to communicate it with others.   If you are a Library Media Specialist who works with PreK students and know how important it is for them to reflect on and share their learning, this resource is perfect for you! AFTER downloading thi

Teach students how to analyze websites so that they know what to trust and believe online.  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 lessons

Everything You Need to Teach third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades to take notes! Kids love learning new things, and we get to show them different ways to capture their learning. That’s where graphic organizers come in.  These Graphic Organizers give your Grades 3-6 students voice and choice in how they take notes when they research online. They get to choose the layout and format that works best for them. And they are created in such a way that is developmentally appropriate for elementary res

Help your fourth graders organize their research, think critically about it, AND remember to cite their sources..Teaching fourth 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 te

Teach Third Graders to Independently Organize their Research Notes AND Cite SourcesHow do we introduce note taking and citation and meet the diverse needs of Third Graders? This Standards Based Lesson provides graphic organizers that support any level of a researcher’s budding curiosity while also encouraging emerging citation skills.  These note taking sheets meet students’ diverse needs. While researching, students can draw diagrams and take notes. They help scaffold the note taking process f

Everything You Need to Teach Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades Note Taking! Kids love learning new things, and we get to show them different ways to capture their learning. That’s where graphic organizers come in.  These Graphic Organizers give your K - 2 students voice and choice in how they take notes when they research online. They get to choose the layout and format that works best for them. And they are created in such a way that is developmentally appropriate for elementary researcher