Earth day is Thursday April 22. Here are a few sites that have activities that engage students and bring awareness of Earth day and global conservation!
Education. Com
This has some good worksheets and activities for students to celebrate earth day
Tinkerlab
https://tinkerlab.com/fifty-earth-day-activities/
Another site using natural materials for students.
Project Learning tree
https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/earth-day-activities/
Some more interesting activities!
.https://studentreasures.com/s
Student treasures is an online book creator that student will enjoy. It looks to be fairly straightforward and it is free to create. They do sell classroom books and parents can buy their child's books for $20.00.
There are many resources for teachers : lesson plans, writing work sheets, and ideas for projects. Check this out!
I think it is a good idea to periodically check your Library Web Page.
1. Are all the links working? Check the databases or give student helpers a job and check them. Check other links as well. Sometimes students or teachers may tell you, but more than likely they will just turn to something else on the page or go to Google.
2. How does the catalog look? is is up to date-sometimes just changing the background if you can , will grab some more attention.
3.If you have a place for comments or questions, check those at least weekly. Or if you have a place for student comments, that needs to be checked.( Glogster, Library Blog, ect)
4. If you have a review section, add reviews weekly. Some catalogs let students review which is a great tool.
5. If you use Google Classroom- make sure it is linking up correctly and looks right.
https://wideopenschool.org/ ( Wide Open School) is a new resource provided by Common Sense Media. It looks to me to be a wonderful site for students, teachers , and parents ,to assist students in learning and growing and furthering their education.
There are a multitude of learning activities that will work for students. There is of course, Math, Science, and core school subjects with activity links- there are also off line activities, arts and crafts, digital activities,physical fitness, emotional well being,life skills and virtual field trips.
The neat thing is also a a daily planning page where a day of activities / lessons are laid out. They also provide planning sheets for teachers/ parents/ caregivers to plan their own depending on the student. The plans are based on grade levels so students just pick their grade levels and complete the activities.
The activities ( games, lessons, ect) are shareable with Google Classroom , so if you are a teacher you can send specific activities to your student. The plan lays out each day of the week and activities to go with them, The students are even given a screen break and ideas on what to do!
I think this site will be invaluable to teachers and parents working on virtual learning . The activities would also be doable in the school setting.
StoryJumper.com is a great site ! A few years ago I did a very brief post about StoyJumper. It has come to my attention again , so I decided to really look and see what they had to offer.
I think teachers and librarians would really like to use StoryJumper with their students. There is information on the site for teachers . They give examples of projects for student activities in each subject area.( even Math & Science!!)
There are also ideas for different types of writing: nonfiction, expository, collaborative projects, and creative writing ideas. And there is opportunity to use student art work or use the StoryJumper art work.
Students can have their book published online for free; Of course , there are options for the publication of the book in both hardcover or paperback for a fee.
There is a wide selection of student work,that can be read online, which will also give students a chance for reading and a spark to create their own work,
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https://www.storyjumper.com/school
Here are some sites with read alouds and ideas for story times.
Storytime with Ryan & Craig: These two guys have a ton of read alouds The site is easy to use . You can also search for specific titles .
Emily Arrow: Librarian Emily Arrow shares singalongs with music and stories on her YouTube channel. This will give you lots to use if you are doing storytimes this is a good place to look for ideas and songs.
Story Time From Space: This site has stories from space . Astronauts read the stories
These may be helpful if you are doing in person or virtual learning. Do you use any others? I am really looking for more for the middle school age level.
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This came up on Face book and I thought I would share. As librarian , you get to provide many extras for your students. This was from a time at school when I gave the Second graders a presentation about the story that had just been published in Highlights. I talked about how I got the idea, how I wrote the story, and then did revisions, I showed them my writers notebook. ( at the time they were working on writing stories and they we keeping a writers note book , so it really fell into place.
So any time you are asked to do something not on the ordinary, make every attempt/offer to assist This particular event earned me a lot of brownie points with my teachers,
