Are you looking teach your students about important digital citizenship topics, such as password safety and email etiquette? This growing bundle is perfect for you! Low to no-prep resources that incorporate Google Apps make it easy to teach and assign. Whether you are a fellow librarian, ELA teacher, or tech teacher, this bundle would be super beneficial to you! What's Included (so far): Email Etiquette Lesson + Activity (Google Slides/Google Sheets) - teach your students how to properly send an email. Students will then practice identifying the parts of an email with the pixel art practice! Password Safety Lesson + Activity (Google Slides/Google Sheets) - students will learn about password safety during the presentation and will apply what they learned with the pixel art follow up activity. It's All About Balance Presentation + Google Forms (Google Slides/ Google Forms) - students will learn about how to balance on and offline activities. Your Digital Footprint Presentation + Activities (Google Slides) - students will learn about the important of their digital footprint. After the presentation, students complete a drag+drop and self-eval activity. Cyberbullying Presentation (Google Slide) - students will learn about forms of cyberbullying and what to do when they see it happening. Evaluating Sources Lesson + Activity (Google Slides/Google Sheets) - students will learn about the 5 W's to determine the trustworthiness of sources and how to properly evaluate online sources for credibility and bias. Students then have a pixel art follow up activity to put what they learned to the test!
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Talk like a Pirate Day Lesson for kids! This STEM activity is designed to support elementary teachers, librarians, STEM Specialists, homeschooling parents, and after-school programs. With this resource, students design and build a pirate ship and write about pirates. Includes Canva lesson slides. This STEM challenge aligns with NGSS, Common Core, and TEKS. Materials: popsicle sticks tape straws scissors tin foil pirate coins or other weights How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long Included: Detailed lesson plan Canva Lesson Slides STEM Activity Writing Extension Easy-to-follow instructions
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Extend a reading of The Crayons Trick or Treat by Drew Daywalt with these adorable crayon crafts and writing pages! Students will love coloring and crafting their festive crayons and seeing them displayed on a bulletin board or taking them home to share with their families. Included in this download are seven crayon costume trick-or-treat crafts and six differentiated writing pages. The crafts come in both color and black-and-white versions. Enjoy! :)
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Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that will leave them asking for more and, most importantly, building vital reading and analysis skills along the way. 1. Assign one pagers at the end of a novel. One pagers are engaging, allow for creativity, and lead to higher level thinking and analysis. Assigning a one pager is easy and works for any novel. Follow these simple guidelines: • Make it standards base
*Google Slides and Print Option* *Rubric Added!* About this Product This product came as a result of my students’ love of the biography series “Who Was…?” If you have not looked into this series, I recommend that you do! They are a fun, easy read that offers an engaging way for students to learn about historical figures and important people. Although this product is based on this series, this product could be used for any biography book or project. This is a nice way to integrate Reading, Writing, and Social Studies.🛑 Are you a member of the TLL Membership? These materials are already included. If you are not a member, click here to learn more. The TLL Membership gives you an all-access pass to hundreds of ELA resources for teachers in Grades 3-5. How I Used this Product In my 3rd Grade classroom, I used multiple copies of the same book or books and paired students in partnerships. In my school, we have a 30 minute Reading Intervention Block. I began this project with students who were not pulled out or working with me in small groups during this time. This was a nice way for students to work independently or in partnerships. It also created an extension for what they could already do as readers. Plus, they had so much fun! I let them work on this project in their partnerships. This held several benefits. Many students who were not pulled out or working in small groups tend to be higher level students OR students who have untapped potential. Allowing them to work on a project like this can extend their learning, as well as find new ways to enjoy reading. While other students had special groups or went to see other teachers, it was nice for these students to have their own project too. The Poster Page is a template that you could use for students to turn in with the essay or you could use this as a planning page and then have students create a larger poster on their own. I assigned it as homework and was pleasantly surprised at what my students turned in. I saw a wonderful increase in engagement by students who had shown little motivation or enthusiasm for reading. You can see the photos in the preview or in the product itself. Please know I updated the pages after the photos were taken with more detail and provided the poster template. Good luck to you with this project! If you have any questions, please contact me! You might also LOVE... Reader’s Notebook Anchor Charts My Opinion Matters! {An Opinion Writing Unit} My Life is A Story {A Personal Narrative Writing Unit} Buzzin' in Book Clubs {Book Club Reading Unit Resources} Newspaper Article Writing Unit {Here's the Scoop!} Opinion Writing for a Literary Response Current Events Writing {What's the Scoop?}
DOT PAINTING OUTLINES for NAIDOC This resource simply provides links to dot painting resources and provides animal outlines to help children create their own dot painting. NOTE: It is always best to invite a member of the local Aboriginal community to assist with this art but we understand that is not always possible. Not all Aboriginal communities do dot painting so please talk with the community Elders. These outlines are also great for pattern art. EYLF - Outcome 1: Children Have A Strong Sense Of Identity Australian Curriculum Foundation to Year 2 (ACAVAM106) Years 3 and 4 (ACAVAM110) Years 5 and 6 (ACAVAM114)
This resource contains 14 different digital activities for digital citizenship in Google Slides™. Slides include: Slide 1: Title page Slide 2: Directions for Chromebook/computer users and iPad users Slide 3: Building Vocabulary Knowledge: Students can use a paper dictionary or the two online dictionaries that are linked into the speaker notes of this slide to define the words: citizen, etiquette, malware, plagiarism, copyright, & anonymous. Slide 4: Paragraph about Digital Citizenship: Students highlight the important information using the highlighter tool. Slide 5: Digital Footprint: Students watch the Common Sense Media video that is linked into the speaker notes about teens discussing what a digital footprint is and how oversharing can be harmful. They will then use the provided text box to add their thoughts about the video. Students have the option to use the built in image search to find pictures to add to the inside of the footprint that represent what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. Slide 6: Embedded YouTube video about Cyberbullying: After viewing the video, students type their answers to the comprehension questions in the right hand side of the table. After answers have been added the the table, students will use the magic reveal magnifying glass to uncover the correct answers that are hidden in the answer key that appears to the right of the slide. Slide 7: Cyberbullying: Students will make a list of ways they could help prevent cyberbullying. Slide 8: Bystander vs. Upstander: Students will drag and drop the scenarios and descriptive words to fit under the correct column: bystander or upstander. Slide 9: 5 Facts About the Internet: Students will use the three kid-friendly research links that are hyperlinked into the speaker notes to research facts about the internet. They will then type their 5 favorite facts inside of the iPads pictures on this slide. Slide 10: Passwords: Students will learn the difference between strong passwords and weak passwords. They will visit the Dinopass website that is linked in for different examples. Afterwards, students will type 5 examples of strong passwords inside of the cell phone. Slide 11: Summarize It! Students will summarize something they learned from Slides 3-10 (or you could choose to give them a passage/book to read and then summarize on this slide) Slide 12: Acrostic Poem: Students will type an acrostic poem using the word PRIVACY. Slide 13: Make Memes: Students can add text to the animated memes of a dog typing on a computer and social media emotions popping up. Slide 14: Copyright/Plagiarism: Students will read the scenarios that are typed inside of the rectangles (you can easily edit these to fit your needs!). They will decide if the scenario violates copyright/example of plagiarism or not. For those that do not, they will use the paint can tool to change the rectangle's background color to green. If it does, they will change the color of the rectangle's background to red. Afterwards, they will click and drag the gray cover laying over the answer box to reveal the correct answers. Slide 15: Making Words: Students will type 3 letter, 4 letter and 5+ letter words they can make from the letters in CITIZENSHIP Slide 16: Find It! Word Search: Students can use the fill tool or line tool to mark words they find. Draggable check marks are provided for students to mark off the words they have found. All slides contain student directions in the speaker notes. This resource can be used on Chromebooks, laptops/computers and iPads. If you would like to print any of the slides, they are all set to print on 11x8.5 paper :) This resource comes as a link in a PDF file. First, make sure you are signed into your Google account. Click on the link and you will be prompted to "Make a Copy". Rename the file to whatever you would like. The presentation will be sent directly to your Drive! Disperse to your students via Google Classroom™, Google Drive™ Shared folder, your Learning Platform, etc.. © 2015 Google and the Google Apps are registered trademarks of Google Inc. Related Products • DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP TRIVIA GAME IN POWERPOINT AND GOOGLE SLIDES™ • DIGITAL SAFETY SCENARIOS SORT • Digital Citizenship Student Project in Google Slides™ • Digital Citizenship Reading Passages • Digital Citizenship Badges {FREE!} *************************************************************************** Follow Me so you can be notified about my latest resources! (Click the star near The Techie Teacher icon) You can also follow me on: FACEBOOK Pinterest Instagram Twitter YouTube The Techie Teacher®
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We’re well into week three of our Tomie dePaola author study and knee deep in Strega Nona’s world! My class has fallen in love with the characters in these books. Their folkloric quality, Big Anthony’s bumbling, Bambolona’s brusqueness and Strega Nona’s endearing ways have captured their hearts and their attention. We began this part of […]
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Yes, it has it's own board on my Pinterest account. I used to be embarrassed by how fascinated and excited I was about classroom libraries. I paroused thrift stores, hit up retiring teachers, and planned my weekends around library book sales for months leading up to my first year in the classroom. By the time
By The Daring English Teacher When teaching a novel, I love to mix things up and throw in a fun, creative, or collaborative activity that engages students as they analyze and interpret the novel’s theme, characters, symbols, or conflict. This allows me to enhance my students’ understanding of the novel, and it gives them a break from the day-to-day routine of reading and reviewing that often accompanies novel studies. Providing students with fun and engaging, yet still rigorous, activities enhances their understanding and fosters a love of reading. Here are three fun activities that you can easily incorporate into any novel study. This is one of my favorite, go-to collaborative activities. Collaborative posters are a great way to review key concepts, analyze symbols and motifs, and brainstorm for essays, and they require little planning. Before class starts, write one character, symbol, setting, motif, or element from the novel in pencil in the corner of each paper. When class begins, have students form groups of 2-4 students, and provide each group with one of the pieces of paper. Then, instruct your students to record the item, information, and quotes from the book on the poster. For this assignment, you can focus on the author’s use of symbols within the novel. You will select a variety of symbols in the novel and assign the symbols to different groups. It is okay if multiple groups are assigned the same symbol. Instruct each group to title their poster with the symbol, write as many details about the symbol as they can think about (this includes what it stands for), and record up to two different quotes illustrating how the author uses the symbol in the novel. I recently did this activity with my Romeo and Juliet unit, and it was a hit. The students were prepared for their essays, and they developed a deeper understanding for the play. Once students are done with the posters, display them throughout the classroom and have the students complete a gallery walk recording the information. This activity is great because it requires students to analyze their assigned topic, while at the same time reinforcing the importance of collaborative work. Even better, this activity gets students up and moving! As an alternative to making posters, this assignment also works very well with post-it notes. Simply provide your student groups with multiple post-it notes, and have the groups write information on the post-its. Then, have students post the notes on the board for the gallery walk. This option is especially beneficial when you want to have a gallery walk, but do not have the time for making posters in the classroom. You can also read about collaborative brainstorming ideas in this blog post. A fun and creative character analysis project you can complete in your classroom is a mock job fair in your classroom. To prepare for this activity, students either select or are assigned a character from the novel. They assume the role of this character and create a resume for this character listing strengths, accomplishments, and skills. To prepare for this activity, I usually teach students about resume writing, provide them with a list of power verbs, and give them a resume template. After students create their resumes, I host a mock job fair in my classroom for one day. During the mock job fair students are assigned to one of two groups, and the groups rotate between interviewer and interviewee. The students assigned to the interview role are given a set of interview questions to ask their candidate. As the candidate responds, the interviewer records the responses. After the interview is over, the students switch roles. This is one of my favorite activities for my Of Mice and Men unit because the students get to explore the characters on a deeper level. Once the activity is over, students write a brief argument piece about whether they would hire that character for the job. After I read an essential chapter with my students, I like to take a day or two to reflect on the reading, analyze what happened, and make sure that my students understand the importance of what they just read, and a creative comic strip assignment is ideal for this. One of the best times to assign this activity is right after a major conflict or at the peak of the story so that students can really analyze the novel's conflict. I like doing this activity with my students when we read Fahrenheit 451 because it helps them understand the conflict more. When assigning a comic strip assignment, make sure students focus on more than just drawing pictures by requiring them to include quotes from the novel as their dialogue. In addition to quotes, students should also write narration, cite their quotes in MLA format, and dedicate an entire box to the novel’s conflict. You can download this FREE, EXCLUSIVE resource to use in your classroom with your next novel study! For more fun, yet rigorous, activities that you can use with any novel study, check out my Novel Unit. This resource is 99 pages and is filled so many activities that you can use them throughout the year for multiple novel studies. From introductory activities to use before reading, to differentiated writing prompts with built-in scaffolding to use as you read, to post-reading cumulative assignments, and everything in between, this novel unit is my go-to resource when I'm in a pinch and need an activity. Click HERE to check out this resource. Here are some additional resources to help you teach the novel! The SuperHERO Teacher - Workbook for Any Novel Unit Study Grades 7-12 Addie Williams - Novel Study Package - Use with ANY NOVEL Presto Plans - Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story Secondary Sara - Chapter Study Guides: Student-Made Activity for ANY Novel
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As summer winds down, I reflect on what I've learned this summer through the workshops I've attended, the books I've read, and all the great conversations I've had with professionals. This quote has had me thinking quite a bit. It comes from Disruptive Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst. What they state is absolutely true. Students need to find relevance in what they are doing right now. So let's backtrack a little... I have always been about purpose. I look at what I'm teaching and ensure that what we are doing serves a purpose. And I share that with students. Understanding why we are doing something is very important to me. Interest is also imperative. I have always tried to make sure that I am matching the books I choose to the interest of my students. Interest surveys, conversations, and book selection time have always been informative to me. But relevance. This is something much deeper. It is something you are connected to. It is something that MATTERS. Well...and when I think about it...do I really read anything that isn't relevant to me? Nope. Not really. So what do I do now? I've been thinking a lot about it and my first step is to just ask my first graders. What issues or problems matter to you? So I added it to my interest survey (click to grab for free): From there...I will need to get creative. They are new readers. And some of them may share some big issues and some students may not. But I need to be prepared to help them make connections to what matters to them and the books we are reading. And I am up for the challenge because Beers and Probst state that: "If they are to undertake anything significant in the future, it will be because they have learned the importance of significant work early on in their schooling." This statement says a lot. We need our students out there doing significant work. We need them to have a voice. So we need to help them find that voice...even at a young age. Em
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This Communities Resource Pack is meant to enhance your existing unit! If you are looking for an activity or project to spruce up your community unit this might be just what you're looking for. In this pack you will find the following: -A List of Literature Recommendations -My Community Illustration -My Community Collage -My Community Facts -Where Am I? -Wants and Needs -Good Citizen vs. Bad Citizen -Flap Book: Rural, Urban, Suburb -Types of Communities Cut & Paste Activity -Types of Communities Illustration Sheet -Types of Communities Assessment -Literature Connection: Communities Change Over Time -Project: Travel Guide in which students create a brochure of their community or any community they would like to visit. -Project: Snapshot of MY Community Project -Project: Snapshot of MY Community Project (Spanish Version) -Grading Sheet: Snapshot of MY Community Project -Vocabulary Picture Cards -Blank Vocabulary Picture Cards As always, I'd appreciate your positive feedback. Also, if you would like to be informed when new items are added to the store then remember to click on the "follow me" button. If you should have any suggestions or recommendations I would love to hear from you! :0) Melissa
