Library Smackdown: Lesson Ideas Across the Curriculum
Gretchen Hazlin & Susanna Carey, Kilmer Middle School | Virginia Association of School Librarians Annual Conference | November 7, 2019
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Gretchen Hazlin gehazlin @ fcps.edu Twitter @libraryms Susanna Carey socarey @ fcps.edu Twitter @susannaopal Kilmer MS Library http://kilmerlibrary.org Twitter @kilmerlibrary Instagram @kilmerlibrary |
English
✔Navigation through Writing
✔#SixWordBookReview
- Lesson is outlined on this blog post: Navigating through Writing: Personalized, Self-Paced Review (BubbleUpClassroom)
- You will want to modify this lesson to meet the specific needs of your students, but you can take a look at our lesson materials on the Kilmer Library website and the passport that we created for students
- Other materials we used:
- iPads (or laptops)
- Directions for each station
- Materials for hands-on activities
- Additional supplies: list of nouns (cut up), white boards/markers/erasers, elbow macaroni, cups
✔#SixWordBookReview
- Slide deck and bookmark available in this blog post: More Strategies to Connect Kids with Books (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Other materials required:
- Colored paper variety (makes the bookmarks more fun if they are different colors)
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
Reading
✔Making Inferences
✔Visualization
✔Tic Tac Toetry
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post: Supporting Reading Comprehension: Making Inferences (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Lesson slide deck
- The New York Times What's Going on in this Picture? Photo and Captions (we print the photos out in a large size -- use color engineering prints at Staples -- and laminate). After students have had the chance to look at the photos and make lots of inferences, we give them the caption page so they can add details to their earlier inferences. Also: find additional photos on The New York Times site.
- Independent practice sheet (could also be used as an exit ticket)
- Other materials required:
- White boards/markers/erasers
- Poster paper
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
✔Visualization
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post (including slide deck, student organizer, and directions): Supporting Reading Comprehension: Visualization Strategies (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Other materials required:
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
- Selection of small stuffed animals (1 per every 2 students)
- Brown lunch bags (same number as stuffed animals)
- Copy of Owl Moon (written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Schoenherr) or other picture book with lots of descriptive language
✔Tic Tac Toetry
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post (including poetry board, signs & directions, poetry organizers, topics for Dice): TIC-TAC-TOETRY, A Fun Day of Poetry (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Other materials required:
- Magnetic words and magnet boards
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
- Dice
- iPads (or Laptops) & headphones
- Poetry books
Strategies for Success
✔Note Taking
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post: Note Taking Strategies (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Stations and handout are available on the Kilmer Library website
- Other materials required:
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
- iPads and headphones
Social Studies
✔Fact, Opinion, Bias, Propaganda
✔Ellis Island Simulation
- Learning Target and Station Directions
- You'll have to build your own Fake News Quiz so that you can see your students' answers and include timely information, but here's our 2018 edition as an example
- Student organizer
- Clarifying pages: Types of Propaganda and Editorial/Op-Ed Definitions
- Other materials required:
- iPads (or laptops) & headphones
- Current Editorials and Op-Eds (we like to use actual print newspapers vs. web print-outs so that we can show that "Op-Ed" means "opposite the Editorial page")
- Links or QR codes to current political campaign ads
- Campaign direct mail pieces (we ask staff members to bring in items they receive in the mail)
✔Ellis Island Simulation
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post: Learning by Living It: An Ellis Island Simulation (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Student "Certificate of Arrival" and Slide Deck that helps determine who they are, how much they have, etc. Also need DICE (this activity occurs in the classroom the day before they come to Ellis Island in the Library)
- We ask for 3-6 parent volunteers per class period as Inspectors. These are the directions for the parents who run the stations.
- Station signs and Cards to help sort students as they arrive
- Badges for Inspectors
- Ship Manifests (for REGISTRY)
- Postcard Reflection: Welcome or Deportation
- Other materials required:
- Lab coats (we borrow from our Science teachers), tongue depressors (MEDICAL)
- Decor (we use extra library shelves to simulate a dock as students walk in, blue fabric lining tables for water, fold-able gym mats to differentiate the spaces, large paper -- from rolls -- to create a rendering of the Statue of Library, lots of "welcome to America" signs and American flags, etc.)
- Harbor sound effects (we borrow an extra large speaker from our PE department)
- Read about another simulation that we run with our History CT: Okalahoma Land Run Simulation -- Yee Haw! (BubbleUpClassroom)
Science
✔Web Evaluation: Play Your CARDS Right
✔Plagiarism 101
- Slide deck (learning targets, pre-assessment, instruction, tasks, post-assessment)
- All QR codes (for whole group day 1 and for stations day 2)
- Day 1
- CARDS Checklist (one for each group)
- Group sites
- Signs for sticky note feedback
- Also need sticky notes (2 per each student)
- Day 2
- Station directions
- Student organizer
- Other supplies required:
- iPads (or laptops)
- Paper and colored pencils, crayons, or markers (HEARTS)
✔Plagiarism 101
- Day 1
- Slide deck (learning target, introduction, instructions)
- Student organizer
- Plagiarized passages (3-4 copies, laminated -- or use sheet protectors) and Table signs
- Day 2
- Slide deck (learning target and instructions)
- Student organizer
Math
✔Cube-estrations
✔Landscaping: Area & Perimeter
- Lesson is outlined in this blog post: Bringing Telestrations to the Math Classroom (BubbleUpClassroom)
- Slide deck to introduce lesson and take students through rounds of both Telestrations and Cube-estrations
- Notebooks for Telestrations and Cube-estrations
- Other materials required:
- Locking math cubes (multiple colors -- enough for each student to have 2 sets of 12 cubes, 2 different colors)
- Solo cups
- Manila folders
✔Landscaping: Area & Perimeter
- Table sign directions
- Student handout checklist
- Compound shape activities
- Other materials required:
- Compound shapes for cutting apart (some students may find this helpful)
- Calculators
- White boards/markers/erasers
- Graph paper
- Tiles (we have a range of ceramic tiles in our makerspace for use with the four extension problems, but math tiles or even cut paper squares can work as well)
- Other lesson ideas for supporting math in the library: Library + Math = The Perfect Equation (BubbleUpClassroom)
Health
✔Kilmer Medical Center
✔ATOD Questioning
- Lesson materials are all available on our Kilmer Med Center website
- To get to the TEACHER RESOURCES (all of the materials that support this lesson), click the RED APPLE on the bottom of the page and type in the password: KMC
- This lesson requires a lot of volunteer power (7-8 per class period), so plan ahead!
- Other materials required:
- Lab coats (to make teachers in charge seem official)
- Clipboards for "residents"
- iPads (or laptops)
✔ATOD Questioning
- Slide deck (learning targets, directions, modeling for days 1,2, and 3)
- Other materials required
- Day 1: "Teen Brain" article taped to big poster paper (1 per group of 4 students)
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers
- Day 1 & 2: Organizer
- Day 1 & 2 Copies of topic articles
- We pulled articles from our databases on the drugs and alcohol topics in our curriculum:
- at least 1 higher level article per topic
- at least 2 lower level article per topic (including audio -- we recorded a read-aloud with a QR code)
- at least 1 article in Spanish per topic
- We pulled articles from our databases on the drugs and alcohol topics in our curriculum:
- Day 3: Exit ticket
Makerspace
✔National Handwriting Day
- Station directions
- Lettering "How-Tos" and Lettering Examples
- Cursive writing practice sheets and Cursive Writing Guide
- Handwriting Analysis guide (there are a bunch of these on the web):
- Other materials required:
- Pencils, markers & pens (variety: ball point, felt tip, calligraphy markers, quills & nibs, etc.)
- Paper (plain, lined, graph, color)
- Stickers
- Glue sticks
- Scissors