In Libris Libertas
Quarterly news from PRMS Library
Volume 4, Issue 2
Welcome to the library's newsletter. I share news at the end of each nine weeks. As always, let me know if you have suggestions!
What's new?
New professional eBooks
Last month, several new eBooks were loaded into our professional collection from the Connected Library Consortium (in addition to the 300+ we already have). Most have multiple copies and would make great book studies for differentiated supervision projects. Click here for a tutorial on how to log in to MackinVIA. The new titles are:
- Sustainable project-based learning : five steps for designing authentic classroom experiences in grades 5-12
- The mastery learning handbook : a competency-based approach to student achievement
- The art of awareness : how observation can transform your teaching
Connecting teens with technology at the library
- Effective bullying prevention : a comprehensive schoolwide approach
- The ESL/ELL teacher's survival guide : ready-to-use strategies, tools, & activities for teaching all levels
- Fact over fake : a critical thinker's guide to media bias and political propaganda.
- Friend or foe : tackling the issue of social media in schools
- Information glut : sorting the good from the bad
- Killer underwear invasion! : how to spot fake news, disinformation & conspiracy theories
- Thinking critically : Social media
- Leading and managing a differentiated classroom
- Answers to your biggest questions about teaching middle & high school ELA
- Media literacy in action : questioning the media
- Nonfiction writers dig deep : award-winning children's book authors share the secret of engaging writing
- Preparing children for success in school and life : 20 ways to increase your child's brain power
- Read for a better world : STEM
Library Happenings
Read Across America
Reading classes visited the library in March to celebrate Read Across America. Students had the opportunity to visit 4 stations: browse books related to RAA's theme, "Bring Communities Together"; create a bookmark; record a FlipGrid about reading; and compose a six-sentence story with a partner.
Have you seen ...
Moonshot Museum
Last month, I had the opportunity to visit the new Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood with the Western Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. If you are interested in space exploration, I highly recommend a visit! The exhibits are interactive and kid-friendly, and you get a close-up look at the engineering work being done at Astrobotic. I'm happy to share more about it if you're interested!
Exhibits
Each exhibit features an interactive component where you work in teams to solve challenges such as choosing the best location for a moon base after considering available resources, designing a mission patch, debating ethical and legal issues of space travel, and more.
Peregrine
This is the Peregrine lunar lander in Astrobotic's cleanroom, only weeks away from being sent to Cape Canaveral. In May, it is scheduled to be launched aboard a Vulcan rocket to deliver its payload to the moon.
Messages
Visitors can write messages that will be scanned onto a microchip that will travel to the moon on a future mission. Astrobotic is currently building Griffin, which will take NASA's Viper rover to the south pole of the moon in search of water.
Tips, Tricks & Advice
Most popular print books this nine weeks
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Two Degrees
Alan Gratz
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
Want recommendations? Follow me on Goodreads to see what I've been reading lately.
Newsletter Archive
Looking for past issues? Find them on the library website.
Kristen Rowe, librarian
Our library program is most effective when we work together. My library standards are aligned with your PA Core standards to encourage maximum collaboration. I would love to plan and teach lessons with you involving research, literacy, and technology. E-mail me or stop by if you'd like to discuss ideas.
Email: krowe@pinerichland.org
Website: www.pinerichland.org/MSLibrary
Phone: 2241
Twitter: @kdhuthrowe