Use this at the beginning of school to teach call numbers. Edit the slides for your library-specific call numbers.
Allow students the opportunity to explore their career goals! This activity will allow them to develop their research skills and provide a hands-on experience to help stretch their perspective. Let your students guide themselves into discovering new career path options!
English Instructional Plan – Citing Sources 6-8
Your classroom is "home away from home" for you and your students. Make it attractive, comfortable, and functional.
Establishing clear classroom routines and procedures is necessary for ensuring that your classroom runs smoothly.
The focus of this textbook is preparing students for a college education with the study and life skills they need to become successful students.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Tiffany Hale teach about credible resources and effective research.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Claire Verdillo teach about determining relevant information.
English Instructional Plan – Determining Validity of Sources 6-8
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives.
This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow.
Students will find, evaluate, and select credible sources to create a research product.
English Instructional Plan- Evaluating Research Sources 3-5
This is a quick slideshow to help guide students into better researching skills.
Per their website, the mission of The Everyday Project is as follows:
"The Everyday Projects uses photography to challenge stereotypes that distort our understanding of the world. We are creating new generations of storytellers and audiences that recognize the need for multiple perspectives in portraying the cultures that define us."
The Everyday Project began as Everyday Africa, a collection of photographs and stories depicting life in Africa from different perspectives. The website as it is now is dedicated to using photography to combat inequality and perception.
This Project can be used in a variety of different ways in the classroom, and can definitely be a cross-curricular project. It encourages students to research and explore different areas or communities, especially their own. It promotes creativity and self-expression. Although the Project is primarily focused on photography, it can also open avenues for reading, research, and writing.
This resource presents a variety of digital resources hosted by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that students can use to explore the life and work of renowned African-American photographer Louis Draper.
Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher -- and how other first-year teachers can, too.
English Instructional Plan –Generating Questions for Research K-1
Identifying and opening lines of inquiry are crucial to a fruitful research process. Students may practice this skill by inspecting, interrogating, and interpreting a work of art. With the "Thought Ladder" activity, students build an interpretation step by step while gaining insight into the way they are processing their observations and forming their ideas. By documenting quesitons and curiousities, they are able to open concrete lines of inquiry for further research. This resource includes activity instructions, graphic organizer, and teacher tips for use.
Demonstrate Google Search tips and tricks Using “ “ around a search term to tell Google the results must include the words inside the quotation marksUsing - in the search term to tell google to exclude something from the results ex. search apple -fruit will give results about apple the company with out any results about apple the fruit.Using site: to search with in a particular website you have deemed creditable. ex. search site: www.cnn.com Use OR to search for either one search term or another ex. search climate change or global warming