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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

Transportation Week activities are the must-have resource for librarians looking to transform their school libraries into hubs of excitement and exploration!  This comprehensive resource is designed to provide librarians with a truckful of engaging activities centered around the theme of transportation. Inside, you'll find everything you need to plan and execute a fun and engaging Transportation Week celebration. They’ll captivate students' imaginations and fuel their love for learning. From met

Empower your Women's History Month lesson planning with an engaging no-prep resource. Say goodbye to hours spent researching and preparing materials. Say hello to materials that are a one-stop solution for librarians and media specialists who need a quick and easy lesson that also supports research and critical thinking skills. Celebrate remarkable women's achievements, contributions, and resilience. Transform your Women's History Month lessons into an engaging and structured library experience.

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

Squeezed for planning time and need quick ideas for students to learn about Native American Heritage?  These no-prep Native American Heritage lessons turn your standard read-aloud into a comprehensive literacy activity! This pack of no-prep Native American Heritage lessons offers brilliant read-alouds, retelling rumbles, and resourceful research activities. Watch as your mini scholars morph into masterful storytellers and inquisitive researchers, all while absorbing invaluable knowledge about N

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

STOP SPENDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF TIME ON PLANS THAT SUBS WON’T USE AND STUDENTS WON’T LIKE. These NO PREP Sub Plans will leave subs and students happy without taking up loads of your prep time. Just print, organize and take a worry free day off! Simple and engaging sub plans are one of the most difficult and time consuming things to do. You don’t always know who will be subbing, you want to make sure students are engaged in meaningful work, and they continue to follow school and library expectatio

STOP SPENDING LARGE AMOUNTS OF TIME ON PLANS THAT SUBS WON’T USE AND STUDENTS WON’T LIKE. These NO PREP Sub Plans will leave subs and students happy without taking up loads of your prep time. Just print, organize and take a worry free day off! Simple and engaging sub plans are one of the most difficult and time consuming things to do. You don’t always know who will be subbing, you want to make sure students are engaged in meaningful work, and they continue to follow school and library expectatio

No Prep Makerspace Challenges are perfect for busy librarians and staff who run makerspaces. Just print the challenges and leave them out for anyone to use without adding additional prep to their plates! Are you looking for ways to build community or keep the community going strong? Are you searching for ways to engage students in collaborative problem solving? These no prep makerspace challenges are for you! Just print out the task cards or station directions and put them out! All you nee

Help students stay focused and organized when creating videos. Video software and platforms can feel overwhelming to students, and it’s easy for them to become distracted by any platform’s bells and whistles. Eliminate that feeling for them and use  a systematic approach when teaching video making. It can feel overwhelming to include video making as a final product. Sometimes we don’t know where to begin to teach our students. Other times, it's frustrating because young video designers get lost

No Prep Makerspace Challenges are perfect for busy librarians and staff who run makerspaces. Just print the challenges and leave them out for anyone to use without adding additional prep to their plates! Are you looking for ways to build community or keep the community going strong? Are you searching for ways to engage students in collaborative problem solving? These no prep makerspace challenges are for you! Just print out the task cards or station directions and put them out! All you nee

Engage students in a comic con right in your library media center!Students love graphic novels, superheroes, and pop culture. These are all of the things that make up a Comic Con. Since we can’t bring students to a Comic Con, bring one to them; right in their Library Media Center! After downloading this resource you will receive resources to create a Comic Con experience for PreK - Grade 6 students to experience Graphic Novels in a new way. The options are endless for how you can use this resour

Engage students in Halloween themed read alouds and makerspace activities with no extra prep for you.Halloween isn’t just for trick or treating. Students of all ages love an engaging read aloud followed by creative makerspace activities. After downloading this resource you will receive no prep resources for elementary students to design multimedia products around Halloween. This resource includes:  Standards Based lessons for students in PreK - Grade 6. Standards are listed below. Slideshow to h

Let students swim alongside our water friends on a manatee virtual field trip! They’ll experience manatee first hand, jot their observations, and can even extend their learning with short informational passages!Give students a first hand experience of what it’s like to be a manatee! This no prep lesson gives students an interactive research experience as they learn what manatees do and consider their role in our world. This activity makes research up close and personal for students through 360 V

Let students walk amongst giants on a dinosaur virtual field trip! They’ll experience dinosaurs first hand, jot their observations, and can even extend their learning with short informational passages!Give students a first hand experience of what it’s like to be a dinosaur! This no prep lesson gives students an interactive research experience as they learn what dinosaurs were like when roaming the earth millions of years ago. This activity makes research up close and personal for students throug

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

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 when students program Unruly Splats.Teach block coding across content areas with these task cards and activities.  Whether students are just learning block code, or are more advanced programmers, there is something for everyone! Task Cards that can be printed 3 or 4 to a page → print & laminate to help students use as a planning tool before they create the codeBlank Planning Sheets  → Planning sheets that help students set a goal and sketch out what the code will

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