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Learning to use your school library will open doorways to a lifetime of both pleasure and information.
Lesson on Parts of a Plot (PowerPoint)
DiscoveryEducation: Free Teacher Resources
"Down the Drain," project-based lesson example
Eagles Love to Learn: Let's grow this site with Web links for content-area standards
EdHelper: lessons and activities in all content-areas
Edutopia,
Enchanted Learning: unit resources and easy-read content
Thinkfinity: Lesson Plans in all content-areas
Virtual Middle School Library: online resources
"What is project-based learning?"
Begin the year with a Thinking Map activity for the "Biblioburro" video. This helps you appreciate all that a library offers: the system for finding books (Dewey), the variety of free materials, and how a library helps your mind grow along with your reading level.
Library Orientations
TAKE a variety of library quizzes at:
"Interactive Quizzes" by Tami Maloney
LEARN your reading level from the STAR Reading test.
Login to Accelerated Reader's Renaissance Place.
Example: Login: dstan000000
"Interactive Quizzes" by Tami Maloney
LEARN your reading level from the STAR Reading test.
Login to Accelerated Reader's Renaissance Place.
Example: Login: dstan000000
PW: 000000
(Do NOT click on "Quiz." Be sure to click on STAR Reading Test.)
Computer Lab Orientation (from James Workman MS)  | ||
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Lesson Resources and Materials
BrainPop: Login is riversidevs, Password is rvs DiscoveryEducation: Free Teacher Resources
"Down the Drain," project-based lesson example
Eagles Love to Learn: Let's grow this site with Web links for content-area standards
EdHelper: lessons and activities in all content-areas
Edutopia,
Enchanted Learning: unit resources and easy-read content
Thinkfinity: Lesson Plans in all content-areas
Virtual Middle School Library: online resources
"What is project-based learning?"
Begin the year with a Thinking Map activity for the "Biblioburro" video. This helps you appreciate all that a library offers: the system for finding books (Dewey), the variety of free materials, and how a library helps your mind grow along with your reading level.
Here is a sample Thinking Map on the value of the biblioburro.
Lesson on Edgar Allan Poe for 8th grade literature unit.
Lesson on Charles Dickens (links)
- The Victorian Web list of authors
- Victoriana, life in Victorian times
- The Victorian Era
- SchoolTube booktrailer, video by a student
- SchoolTube Dickens' stories
- Dickens house Web activity
- Great Expectations study guide
- Charles Dickens biography AND full text of all publications
- Dickens' birth place
- Charles Dickens Biography video on TeacherTube
- The life and times of Queen Victoria
Lesson on Information books (nonfiction)
GoAnimate.com: Informational books by Library Teacher
