Teacher Librarian Help Desk

Monday, September 26, 2011

Teaching Students How to Find Library Materials

I posted the question "Does anyone have any good activities that they use to help students learn how to find books and other materials in the library?"on the WEMTA Listserv and here are the answers that I received. I have put them into a Google Doc. I have it so that anyone with the link can view it and I also have made it so that anyone with the link can edit it. If you have some other ideas please add them.

Finding Library Materials

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Author Websites

There are many authors that have wonderful websites. I have listed a few that I have used.

Are there any that you have used with your students or used for creating lessons? List them in the comments.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Learn Boost

Have people at your school been looking for a way to keep an online grade book for free? I just learned about Learn Boost. It is a free online grade book along with having other features like attendance, calendars and a way to create lesson plans. If you have Google Apps for Education this programs is suppose to work with it. Check it out.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Climate Change

Are you interested in teaching climate change in your class, but aren’t sure where to start?

Do you already have some climate change materials, but want to supplement them with some reliable online resources?

Would you like a climate change reading list for kids, put together by librarians?

Click on the links below to access our website:

Climate Change Reading List for Kids

Climate Change Websites for Kids

Climate Change Curriculum Ideas for Teachers

Climate Change Reading List for Adults

Please contact us with any questions or for more information.

Thanks!

Amy De Simone & Anne Moser

Wisconsin's Water Library

Aquatic Sciences Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography for Kids

Biography Websites for Kids

compiled by Sarah Loughrin

Badgerlink has a great resource that I used with 5^th graders last year. I’m not sure if the link will work (depending on how your computers are recognized by the state), but within Badgerlink, the Elementary School Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica has a Biography section: http://school.eb.com/elementary/bio

Try these,

http://pbjclibrary.state.ar.us/kidsbiography.htm

http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/People_and_Society/Biography/

http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet.jsp

www.awesomestories.com has visually interesting, in-depth info. linked to primary sources

Bio for Kids!

http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/index.jsp

Sites for teaching about Copyright

I have been going through my old emails and have found that I have a lot of them that have compiled list for different topics from the WEMTA listserv. I will be adding those list to my blog over the next few weeks.
The first list deals with copyright and was compiled by Naomi Harm.

http://www.copyrightkids.org/

http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html

http://www.teachersfirst.com/copyright.cfm

http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/students/

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/fair-use-checklist/

http://www.ehow.com/about_4882063_copyright-laws-students.html

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/copyright/Student_Guidelines.html

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/referenc.html

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic98.htm

http://www.techlearning.com/section/Copyright

http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic24.htm

http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/schools/jones/Copyright-Kids/

http://www.copyright.gov/

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/guidelines.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#/copyright/

http://archive.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/supplements/CopyrightGuide200506_1.pdf

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/peachj/edte230/copyright/quiz.htm

Lesson Plans
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/a-way-with-words/
http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/mannersbullyingethics/lessons/6-8/considering_copying/
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/exploring-plagiarism-copyright-paraphrasing-1062.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/students-creators-exploring-copyright-1085.html

Plagerism

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/plagiarism/tutorial

You Quote - You Notes- shared with me on Twitter today:

http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Copy the "Right" Way - a webquest

Library of Classroom Curricula - Copyright Alliance Education Foundation and educational organizations like Weekly Reader, iSafe, and Young Minds Inspired. Curriculum designed to help incorporate copyright lessons into K-12 classrooms by subject area.

Sharing Creative Works - comic about Creative Commons. It aims to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply.

Teaching Copyright - Electronic Frontier Foundation project developed curriculum that will help students understand and exercise their rights and responsibilities.

Thinkfinity - Standards-based lessons, interactives, worksheets, media, and more.

Many more resources on the WEMTA website at http://www.wemta.org/members/copyright_sites.cfm

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Read Aloud Books for 8th Graders

Here is a list of read aloud books for 8th graders. This list was created from suggestions from teachers I work with and suggestions from WEMTA listserv users.

Uglies by Westerfield
Hunger Games by Collins
Freak the Mighty by Philbrick
House of the Scorpion by Farme
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Brewer
Wanted by Cooney
Among the Hidden
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
Witch and Wizard by Patterson
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Also check out Nancy Keane's website for her list.

http://nancykeane.com/rl/1119.htm