BMMS Library Blast
Easy Breezy Summer Prep
From Chalkboards to Chromebooks
Do you want meaningful quality curriculum links for easy student Chromebook engagement next fall? Try SAS Curriculum Pathways. This is a win, win, win. Win one, SAS Curriculum Pathways has some great critical thinking lessons, that often come with an essential question for thoughtful higher level thinking outcomes (see below). Win two, teachers lay out the Chromebooks and assign the SAS lesson and students can simple follow directions to get to work. Win three, students get access, direction, and the technology skills appropriate for SBAC built into the SAS sequence of the lesson. This site should be the go-to spot when you need a great Chromebook lesson. If you haven't used SAS Curriculum Pathways much in the past, now might be the time to take this site and our new Chromebooks out for a spin. Click on pictures below to enlarge for logins, passwords and content for all our district databases and save this "Blast" for the fall.
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Best place to get overview of a topic, WorldBook Advanced - login: bmmslib, pw: bmmswb
Best place to get short videos for lesson hooks - Discovery Education use your PUSD login and password. (At first don't look at all the new interface, just type your topic in the search term and pick your video and play.)
Best place to get pro and con articles - Opposing Viewpoints in Context ( Gale) login password: bmmsgale
Best place to get short videos for lesson hooks - Discovery Education use your PUSD login and password. (At first don't look at all the new interface, just type your topic in the search term and pick your video and play.)
Best place to get pro and con articles - Opposing Viewpoints in Context ( Gale) login password: bmmsgale
& once in EBSCO list of databases, choose Point of View.
Gale Topic Finder - Kids love this!
Roadmap to Gale Topic Finder
- Go to Library Destiny Homepage and scroll down.
- Under Databases, click on Gale All databases
- password bmmsgale.
- Find and click small "continue" box.
- Click Topic Finder at the bottom of page.
- Use lower search bar to get colorful wheel of information.
- When you choose segment on wheel articles come up on the side.
- click article
- all MLA ed.7 citations are at the bottom of every article
- If students email these articles, they come with the copy and paste citation.
- If anyone would like to have me come to show your class, I would love the opportunity!
SAS Curriculum Pathways for critical thinking made easy or in other terms, I am a bad teacher librarian, if you are not using this. Login: raiders (no password)
SAS, once assigned, gives students online self-directed access to:
- Interactive Tools that walk students through information gathering to determine, analyze, and support with evidence an educated point of view on a given topic. "Explore the medieval European period to answer this question: Were the Middle Ages in Europe characterized by more hope or despair? You'll take a position and defend it with evidence from primary source documents." Students click through to see video clips, images, documents and more to uncover the examples they need to support their position.
- Tool-based lessons that designate qualified website resources for a particular topic, such as: "Label the geographic features of Ancient India onto a map outline. You'll identify the geographic conditions that shaped the development of Indian civilizations and create a collage of images that reflects the diversity of India's geography."
- Topical Audio-tutorials such as: "Why does the Amazon rainforest need to be saved? Learn about the largest rainforest and its impact on the world. At the end of this tutorial, you can take a short, online quiz."
- Inquiry learning practice that builds from an Essential Question from embedded SAS source materials.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Book Crossings is a brilliant and fun adventure in reading and sharing books. You can find free books and eBooks while you share your used books and eBooks with the world and see who was able to read them over time. They can be shared and shared again, and it's free. I plan to have a Book Crossing Zone next year in our library to facilitate the sharing of books. This is a great site for wild readers, free thinkers, and early adapters that will hopefully help get more kids reading more books. Check it out and let me know what you think. This is new to me too.
Jane Chambers and Janet Alkema
Tip of the Day: If you can't see our Library Destiny Homepage in MyPlan, go to the menu items at the bottom of MyPlan and click from Home to Applications. There, you may find many things you need. This is a great tip for students too. They are always surprised.
Email: jchambers@powayusd.com
Website: http://destiny.powayusd.com/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home
Location: Library Destiny Homepage in MyPlan!
Phone: 8810-3940 8810-3937