SLS 6/7 - Bookish Byte from O²CM

Resource: The Innovation Destination

While most innovation programs and activities are considered "informal learning," young innovators often lack some of the basic knowledge and skills, such as STEM-related inquiry and research skills, that support the innovation process. All are related to concepts, principles, skills and/or processes important to successful innovation and are intended to foster curiosity, imagination and critical thinking for innovation creation.

The items contained in this database include K-12 lesson plans, session plans, learning activities and thinking challenges. Each contains most or all of the following information: intended grade level(s), overview, connected discipline, standards, collaborator, time required, number of sessions, anticipated learning outcomes, required resources, sequenced content and activities, modifications, assessments, and credits. The resources in this database are searchable by STEM Subject, Keyword, Grade Level and/or Resource Type. Check out the list of Thinking Challenges that Katie has recreated into printable cards.

Special thanks to Katie McGinnis for sharing this resource at our last Mentors Across Borders meeting!

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Codenames Online!

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Codenames is a game played by 4 or more players in which players are split into two teams, red and blue, and guess words based on clues from their teammates. One player from each team becomes the spymaster, while the others play as field operatives.

Education Application:

You can actually use your own vocabulary in the online version! A great tool for review and to increase understanding. Create your own custom word sets with codenames.game

Special thanks to Jennifer Jones for sharing this resource at our last Mentors Across Borders meeting!

Creating a Culture of Reading Ideas

So traditional booktalks have become stale? Are there other options? Here are a few ideas being used in libraryland that you may find helpful.

First Line Fridays - over the announcements, during a bellringer, social media reel/tiktok/post share the first line of a book
First Chapter Fridays - over the announcements, during a bellringer, social media reel/tiktok/post share the first chapter of a book
Booktalk Surveys - before your students come for a booktalk survey their interests to personalize the booktalk
What I am Reading? Poster - Provide a poster for each teacher and encourage them to post what they are reading. Bonus points for teachers that are not traditionally seen as readers
New Book Display - order books to come in each month and create a new books table that consistently have new titles that come into the library
Genre Booktalk Bingo - Create several bingo boards with genres
Create a Book Recommendation Slideshow from Staff members
Visual Book Lists - Lists created by Melissa Corey from Canva

Plagiarism 101 & Dr. Seuss

Teach your students in secondary about Plagiarism using Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. The slidedeck goes through the definition and examples using the popular book.

About the Slideshow: To help with better understanding plagiarism, you can use Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham to showcase how easily plagiarism can happen and what it can often look like. Students pretend you have a paper to write on unfamiliar foods and Green Eggs and Ham is one of the sources that they use for the paper. After reading a few pages of the book example statements using the phrase "do not like green eggs and ham" are used to test their ability to find plagiarism. They will need to decide whether or not the statement is plagiarized or not.

Special thanks to Ellen Pristash for sharing this resource at our last Mentors Across Borders meeting!

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Scavenger Hunts & Other Fun Stuff for Students

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Looking for a fun SEL activity. Try out these scavenger hunts that are fun for students of all ages! These are all templates in Canva from Melissa Corey. This has been shared by several librarians in our region!

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