GWAEA Media Center Update
February 2020
Below are three of our newest professional books. To see this month's complete list click here.
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Financial Literacy standards were revised and approved as both Social Studies Skills and 21st Century Skills and are now a required learning for Iowa students. Iowa State University and Outreach worked with Iowa teachers to create and provide lesson plans for K-5 teachers.
These lesson plans are available to download for free at the ISU Extension Store online: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/15660
Kits were also created to support the lesson plans and the GWAEA Media Center has them available for checkout! Each kit contains at least 1 nonfiction and 1 related fiction title to use with students and lesson plans. Click below to borrow a set. We will deliver it to your building!
Financial literacy lesson plans, kindergarten
Financial literacy lesson plans, grade 1
Financial literacy lesson plans, grade 2
Financial literacy lesson plans, grade 3
Financial literacy lesson plans, grade 4
Financial literacy lesson plans, grade 5
- Web based and it is an app
- Customizable accessibility features
- Note taking feature
- Items can be grouped together - including non MackinVIA resources
- Individual schools may personalize their MackinVIAs
- Provides classic through contemporary fiction and nonfiction
Accessibility with MackinVIA
MackinVIA Supports Literacy and NGSS
From the Desk of...Michelle Bessman
Making Choices with MackinVIA
We use MackinVIA during Daily 5 time. Students listen to audiobooks or read digital books that are not available in my classroom or building library. Once the students learned the process to log in and how to navigate the site, it worked very well. According to my students, it is now easy to use and they really enjoy the selection of choices.
Research says that listening to text has enormous benefits for students. I really appreciate having a digital library for my students to select literature. I believe digital literature will be a part of my students' everyday lives and it is important that I set them up to be able to successfully navigate digital resources. I also appreciate that my lower readers are able to experience grade level literature with success by listening to a story they could not comprehend by reading. I enjoy listening to the students to discuss and recommend books and authors to each other.
The students like that you can search for books they wish to listen to and/or read. Students can search by genre or author, they like the choices and a wide variety of books.
Michelle Bessman, 5th Grade Teacher
Mid-Prairie Middle School
- Read Across America - March 2
- Women's History Month - March 1 - 31
- International Woman's Day "An equal world is an enabled world."- March 8
- Pi Day - March 14
Women's History Month
March is declared as Women’s History Month to honor and celebrate women's contributions to our world and coincides with International Women’s Day is March 8, 2020. This year’s theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote” to celebrate the courageous women who fought for voting rights and those who continue to fight for the rights of others.
WomensHistoryMonth.gov has curated over 40 learning activities with resources from historical experts.
For instance Examining Where Rosa Parks Sat, provided by the National Archives, has students examine the actual arrest record from Rosa Parks. With her name marked off, students examine what was written about the arrest incident and evaluate this primary source document.
“Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, celebrates the voice of this contemporary author by experiencing her poem about an Arabic-speaking woman traveling at an airport where only English is spoken. Guiding questions, pre, during, and post-reading activities, content standards, and assessments are also provided. With a video of the reading as well as the written poem, learners are able to experience the poem in multiple formats.
Visit the National Women’s History Museum’s online exhibits and resources for students and teachers. This includes a searchable database of primary source documents, exploration by topic, virtual field trips, lesson plans and infographics.
Sunday, Mar 1, 2020, 12:00 AM
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Student Votes Needed for Iowa Award Books!
Votes from students around the state will be compiled and winners will be announced later this spring. The Iowa Goldfinch, Children's Choice, Teen Choice, and High School Award Books provide an opportunity for all grade levels to let their voice be heard. Not every book on the list has to have been read by student voters--but at least two. There is still plenty of time to get involved. The deadline for voting is March 30!
Need access to a few more titles? Log into to your school's MackinVIA account. Click the red "groups" button on the left to find each group and the e-book options.
Ready for next year's books? click here
Blended and Personalized Learning Workshop - March 4
Grant Wood Area Education Agency will present Pathways to Personalization: A Framework for School Change with presenters Shawn Rubin and Cathy Sanford on March 4, 2020.
This workshop will provide deeper learning on blended and personalized learning and the information shared in their book, "Pathways To Personalization: A Framework For School Change."
Click here to find more about this workshop and other professional books about blended learning.
Grant Wood AEA Media Center
Email: reservations@gwaea.org
Website: https://www.gwaea.org/educators/media-center
Location: 4401 6th Street Southwest, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Phone: 319-399-6754
Twitter: @dianna_geers