OS Digital Learning News
March 2018
Hi Everyone!
In this edition of the Oakland Schools Digital Learning News you will find resources for a few of the many special events celebrated in March! We have included resources for March is National Reading Month; resources for Women's History Month; and information about Pi Day. Enjoy!
~Laura and Vinos
Storyline Online Releases New Story for National Reading Month!
Quackenstein Hatches a Family is a cute and creepy tale told in rhyme about a bitter old duck who adopts an egg and is surprised by what hatches from inside.
Check out all of their videos at storylineonline.net! Most videos include a supplemental activity guide aligned with Common Core Standards to help strengthen comprehension, verbal, and written language skills.
PBS Kids: Infuse Reading into Every Day!
Reading books to and with young children is the best way to make reading an everyday experience. However, sometimes adding digital text and interactive experiences for reading via the use of technology can provide a good reading experience too. PBS Kids has several technology-based ways for younger students to read or be read to every day. A few of the PBS Kids resources are linked below.
Games
Explore reading and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, WordGirl, Super Why and Daniel Tiger!
Activities
Storybook village with SUPER WHY!
Helping children ages 3-6 learn key reading skills, including alphabet, rhyming, spelling and reading comprehension, through interactive storybook adventures.
Video
This video segment from Between the Lions features Sloppy Pop singing "Read the Signs," a catchy song that points out the words we see all around us on street signs.
Michigan eLibrary Reading Resources
CommonLit
Her-stories in History
Find Women's History Month Articles on ReadWorks!
March is Women's History Month! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of strong and courageous women from the past and present with curated articles from ReadWorks. Articles can be read online or easily printed. Online articles have a "read aloud" feature that students can use. (Note: It does not highlight the text as it reads.) Each article comes in less complex versions to help you provide the correct readability levels for your students. Articles also include a vocabulary section and question sets to answer after reading.
Find Women's History Month Articles
Find Women's History Month articles by grade:
National Register of Historic Places Program: Women's History Month 2018
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of United States historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
The National Register of Historic Places lists many properties significant for women's history. They have taken the opportunity of Women's History Month to highlight just some of the properties that exemplify the contributions of women to American history.
Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less: The First Amendment and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Celebrate Pi Day on March 14th!
Take a Piece Out of These Pi Resources from PBS Learning!
Pi is a very special ratio which calls for its own special holiday! Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th. Can you guess why? Watch this short video with your students to get a quick overview of Pi and how the holiday for Pi got started.
Below are two additional resources that will help your students learn more about Pi.
Grades: 6-12
Explore intriguing appearances of pi and the Fibonacci sequence outside of mathematics. Although well-known in mathematics, the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence are also frequently found in the natural world, such as in the number of petals on flowers and the number of spirals of a pine cone.
Calculating Pi with Darts
Grades: 6-12
Pi can be calculated using a random sample of darts thrown at a square and circle target. The problem with this method lies in attempting to throw "randomly." Learn how to do it in this video!
Oakland Schools Digital Learning Twitter posts can be found at: os_edtech
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Using the hashtag will help all of us Oakland County educators, who are interested in the effective use of digital learning, to connect and better collaborate with each other.
Oakland Schools Digital Learning Consultants
Laura.Cummings@oakland.k12.mi.us
248-209-2283
Vinos Kassab
Vinos.Kassab@oakland.k12.mi.us
248-209-2229