Primary songs in French - video clips
TFO features a number of short songs suitable for primary classes. Songs cover colours, animals, weather, etc. Hover your mouse over the thumbnails to see the video titles.
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17.12.14
▶ What is Genius Hour? - Introduction to Genius Hour in the Classroom
Help students explore their passion!
"Founded on an innovation championed by businesses like FedEx and Google, "the genius hour" sets aside school time (at least an hour, every week) for students to work on something they are passionate about. This video outlines some basic tenets of implementing "genius hour" programming at your school and points to further resources (tutorials, lesson ideas, and connections to other educators) at www.geniushour.com. "
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LunaPic | Free Online Photo Editor
Turn images into sketches or paintings
Do you want your students' BookCreator stories to look more like the real thing? Try converting the images to drawings or paintings to give ithemt more of a children's book feel. Use LunaPic, upload the image, apply the effect you want, copy/paste. Voilà
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The Hat By Jan Brett - WeGiveBooks
Seasonal Reading
WeGiveBooks is offering some seasonal favourites on their site. Great for projecting and sharing. Take a look!
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16.12.14
CK-12 Life Science Concepts For Middle School Textbook
Flexible, Free, Downloadable Science Text
"What exactly does it mean to be alive? These concepts will serve as an introduction to life science, discussing the basics of studying the life sciences and addressing the question, "What is a living organism?"
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Sick Science! - Science experiments made easy
Hands-on Science
"Steve Spangler, known for his experiments on local TV station, acts as a science consultant for a local school district. He helps students get motivated and more interested in the hands-on aspect of science. Explore this Youtube CHannel filled with easy-to-try science experiments for home or school."
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15.12.14
Bibliotherapy for Teens: An Expanded Booklist
Fiction for growth, succor, and learning
Ashleigh Williams has created an (expanded) booklist of YA fiction titles that address a variety of issues teens may be grapping with. (Realistic Teen Fiction and Mental Health Booklist.)
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Using QR Codes to Promote Your Library
Provide an engaging way to interact with your space
Barb Zinkovich offers some QR code ideas.
"QR codes seem to be everywhere! For the uninitiated, QR codes are the square barcodes you find on just about anything today -- from food labels to store coupons to visitor guide brochures -- accessible with a QR reader that can be downloaded to any smartphone or tablet device. Once scanned, the codes link to a source (a video or website, for example) that provides more information on a particular topic. For that reason, QR codes can make an effective promotional tool."
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Stenhouse Publishers: In Defense of Read-Aloud - Preview online
Reading aloud is best practice
"In Defense of Read-Aloud: Sustaining Best Practice" by Steven Layne
Preview link
"The practice of reading aloud to children may be viewed by some educators as an "extra"—a bit of fluff used solely for the purposes of enjoyment or filling a few spare minutes. But researchers and practitioners stand in solidarity: the practice of reading aloud throughout the grades is not only viable but also best practice."
Preview the title online: http://www.stenhouse.com/emags/1040/index.html
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It’s Not About the Books: Three Approaches for Serving Reluctant Readers
Solving the reluctant reader conundrum
In this article, Heather Booth offers three strategies for pulling in reluctant teen readers.
"It's a perennial problem -- the reluctant reader conundrum. How can we convince these potential readers that there's something great in our collections just waiting for them? [...] Here are three strategies to consider that are about the most important part of our library: our patrons.
- "Challenge!"
- "Made you Look!"
- "Rewind and Frame"
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5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students
Start tomorrow with these five
"Many would agree that for inquiry to be alive and well in a classroom that, amongst other things, the teacher needs to be expert at asking strategic questions [...] With that in mind, if you are a new teacher or perhaps not so new but know that question-asking is an area where you'd like to grow, start tomorrow with these five:
#1. What do you think?
#2. Why do you think that?
#3. How do you know this?
#4. Can you tell me more?
#5. What questions do you still have?"
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12.12.14
50 mini-poster images about books, reading, and libraries
Spruce up your wall-art.
"We've prepared the list of pictures and illustrations that throughout a few years of our social media activity proved most successful on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, and Google+."
Scroll down the page to see the offerings.
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11.12.14
Article: Reconciling learning the 'basics' and inquiry teaching
Fostering thoughtful debate
http://tc2.ca/uploads/PDFs/Critical%20Discussions/reconciling_learning_basics_w_inquiry_teaching.pdf
The staff of the Critical Thinking Consortium tackles the apparent conflict between Back-to-the-basics and "inquiry teaching". Worth the read!
"....Media reports frequently present a polarized debate between two camps: "back to basics" versus "inquiry or discovery learning."4 The resulting impression that educators must chose between one or the other is the kind of exaggerated position that often propels the educational policy pendulum to oversimplify and overreact. In this article, we seek to explain how learning the basics and inquiry teaching can be reconciled, and to document the effects of doing so..."
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"La musique dans ma classe"
Explore francophone musical tradition
Visit this site for links to music resources in French
"Music is essential to the study of language and culture. To fully appreciate French, it is important for students to be exposed to the rich world of French music, in particular the unique francophone musical tradition of Canada (Québécois, Acadian, Métis, and French Aboriginal music and musicians.)"
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10.12.14
Seeing the Invisible: an animated treatment of van Leeuwenhoek
Seeing smaller than ever before
"In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. His work inspired countless microbiology researchers, including HHMI investigator Bonnie Bassler, one of the narrators of this animated feature. Leeuwenhoek was a haberdasher and city official in Delft, The Netherlands. He started making simple microscopes and using them to observe the world around him. He was the first to discover bacteria and much more."
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Great Transitions: The Origin of Humans | HHMI’s BioInteractive
Key phases of human evolution: larger brains, tool use, and bipedality
Video [19m44] -> Also available for download from the site.
"Paleontologists have studied the fossil record of human evolution just like they have done for other major transitions, including the evolution of tetrapods from fish and the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. In this film, part of the Great Transitions trilogy, Sean Carroll and Tim White discuss the most important human fossils and how they illuminate key phases of human evolution, focusing in particular on three traits: larger brains, tool use, and bipedality."
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9.12.14
“Oniva”, a fun French TV show for kids - on DVD
A "magazine format" show for Immersion and FSL students
Great for Elementary immersion classes, and higher FSL grades, ONIVA is a show created for and by school-aged kids. In each show, the team travels and visits a school (in one of the four western provinces, the Yukon and Ontario) and examines a focus topic with young people. The show is presented in a "magazine format" and includes stories, interesting facts, a feature called "vox-pop", Q&As, a cooking segment and entertaining games. The student hosts are middle school aged but clips would work with junior high Immersion students, and high school FSL.
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What is a Makerspace?
Helping students be creative
This Makerspace is seperate from the school library, but the energy and excitement could easily be brought into an existing library learning commons.
"Andrew Goodin manages the GCAA Makerspace, a collaborative workshop in which students use their artistic abilities to solve real-world problems in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Washington State University and a Masters of Education from University of Missouri-St. Louis. Andrew is co-founder of The Disruption Department, an educational technology nonprofit that creates tangible STEAM learning opportunities for students from under-resourced neighborhoods in St. Louis. "
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Makerspaces Webinar with Diana Rendina
Students and stations and stuff! (video webinar)
"An ISTE Librarian Network Webinar with Teacher-Librarian Diana Rendina at a STEM magnet school on "Transforming your library with a Makerspace". Learn how she did it in her library and how you can do it in yours. (Streamed live on 22 Oct 2014)"
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8.12.14
Open a World of Possible: Real Stories About the Joy and Power of Reading (eBook)
Reading teaches us who we are and who we might become
"The remarkable authors in this volume—literacy experts, language researchers, librarians, children's authors, and poets—share the reading moments that enriched and extended the possibilities of their lives and made them who they are today.[...] These people credit reading with helping them dream of a future they hadn't thought possible.Their stories are our stories. No matter our medium—digital screen or printed book, magazine or comic book— reading can impart courage; it teaches us who we are and who we might become."
- Practitioner's Guide
- Bookmark
- Complete site:
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