SLS Weekly Update
October 20, 2022
Playing games
Getting extra help
Working on a group project
Thanks Aja for reminding us!
Weeding with BOCES
More books!
Foundnd time for the HS yearbooks!
Consider The Source Fall Educator Workshop (with Kelly Gunderson!)
Consider the Source New York presents a day of learning, collaboration, and sharing for teachers and school librarians in the Central NY Region. Jordan Jace, statewide coordinator for Consider the Source New York and Education Director for the NYS Archives Partnership Trust, will facilitate a discussion focused on teaching historical thinking skills through culturally responsive content. Local elementary and secondary teachers and school librarians will share lessons they created through the Consider the Source program using local primary sources.
Participants will have the opportunity to collaborate and brainstorm lesson ideas around the Seal of Civic Readiness, Regents Prep, and scaffolding historical thinking skills for young learners in grades K-5.
Flyer below
New York Reads now on Teachingbooks
We hope you are having a wonderful Monday! With the help of our wonderful Sora partners, we are thrilled to announce that the New York Reads lists are live on TeachingBooks for your BOCES, filled with amazing resources to compliment your collections. To access the lists, login and select the three-line toggle menu in the upper left corner. Select “Your Reading Lists” and the New York Reads lists will now appear under your BOCES lists. Here are direct links to the lists: Would anyone like me to set up training?
Exploring Nature Resources
Halloween Edition It's not all science, but we like creative holiday fun too. Enjoy! Subscribe for access to 7,000 pages of printable science and nature.
Gaze at Some GUTS! • Making Your Life-Sized Body Model - Activity • Color Your Guts (Digestive Tract) • Organs of the Digestive System Activity Brains, Brains Brains! For Middle and High School • Color the Side View of the Brain • Nervous System Structures and Function (Advanced) • All About Nervous System Structure and Function with Activities - Complete Advanced Bundle Learn about the body's systems, fun facts about human anatomy, important vocabulary, interesting exercises, health tips, and do more than 30 body puzzles. Have fun wit this 160-page anatomy adventure! Halloween Activities for K-3 Improve observational skills and motor skills - while having Halloween fun! • Halloween Creature Decoration Coloring • Haunted House Poster with Secret Doors • Halloween Costumes - What's Different Activity • Happy Halloween Monster Mini-Poster • Halloween Monsters - What's Different Activity • Draw Monsters and Witches for Halloween • Halloween Party Hidden Picture • Halloween Party Coloring Page • Halloween Party Coloring Page (Close Up)
NAMLE with PLS
Next week is National Association for Media Literacy Education’s (NAMLE) U.S. Media Literacy Week. The annual celebration has many great events scheduled that further the mission of highlighting the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country. The whole week is filled with interesting events is worth checking out, but we wanted to draw your attention to two free webinars that are led by Project Look Sharp staff. Info and a registration link for each event is below.
Teaching About Mis/Disinformation in Early Elementary Grades Using Constructivist Media Decoding: October 24th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST.
How can we introduce in grades K-3 the type of deep questioning and critical thinking skills necessary for all students to evaluate the media messages they see, read and hear in today’s world? Highlighting dozens of free lessons from Project Look Sharp that use the kinds of media children already have in their lives (food packages, movies, YouTube videos, etc.), this highly interactive presentation from Cyndy Scheibe, Project Look Sharp Executive Director and Founder, will demonstrate how inquiry-based, student-centered, curriculum-driven media analysis can engage even the youngest students in questions about what’s true and what’s not.
Use this link to register for the Webinar.
Truth, Reason, and Critical Thinking: Resources for Integrating Media Analysis for Grades 5-12: October 25th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST.
Project Look Sharp’s Director of Curriculum and Staff Development, Chris Sperry, will give an overview of free resources – including hundreds of lessons – for teaching about sourcing, accuracy and bias in media messages. Project Look Sharp’s Constructivist Media Decoding approach integrates inquiry-based, student-centered, curriculum-driven media analysis for teaching core subject area content and habits of questioning.
Use this link to register for the Webinar.
Chris Sperry and Cyndy Scheibe
Project Look Sharp
Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES SLS
Email: psweeney@cayboces.org
Website: https://www.cayboces.org/domain/28
Location: 1 Eagle Drive, Auburn, NY, USA
Phone: (315) 255-7609
Twitter: @plsweeney1