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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

No Prep Makerspace Activities are perfect for busy librarians and staff who run makerspaces. Just print 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 activities are for you! Just print out the task cards or station directions and put them out! All you need to add are pa

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

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

Let students walk amongst nature’s magnificent creatures on animal virtual field trips! They’ll experience animals first hand, jot their observations, and can even extend their learning with short informational passages! These low to no prep lessons engage students in research and inquiry with 360 virtual reality. Give students a first hand experience of what it’s like to be an animal or to have specific experiences! These no prep lessons give students interactive research experiences as they le

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

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 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

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