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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
Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
Lesson on Expository and Persuasive Writing
Expository Writing Tips!
Expository Prompts
Information about Expository Writing (with Thinking Maps)
The Writing Site: Expository Writing
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Writer's Workshop: Persuasive Writing
The Writing Site: Persuasive Writing
Lesson on the language of billboards: What do they "say?"
50 Extraordinary and Attractive Billboards
Images for billboards
Colony Collapse Disorder (for bees).
