#teaching materials

My first product in a new range of writing resources for the classroom! This set of 45 story cards can be cut out and used to make fun stories with your students. There are 5 genres and then a make your own template for your students to embrace their creativity!

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to do a lesson today with the 7th grade classes at the middle school where I’m doing my library school internship (in the U.S.), so I created this presentation/assignment (doable in 45 min. with no background knowledge necessary) to mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11). 

Please feel free to work through it yourself, or borrow it to use with or without credit in your own educational setting. Of course I’d appreciate hearing about it you or someone you know does use it, but I’d just be happy if it could be of use to a wider audience. Would also work well as a digital/remote lesson. 

Mariame Kaba tweeted:

I made a youth-friendly reader about the Trayvon Martin case 6 years ago that I think is still useful for those who work with young people.

Here’s the link to thereader in PDF. It’s useful for old white people like me too.

Children care deeply about fairness. Sometimes such caring is a royal pain, “Her slice is bigger than mine!” But most of the time children’s concerns about fairness remind us of our better angels.

Fabulous Powerpoint pt 4

  Busy, Free, and Happy, Sad, and then the final slide.

For those interested in teaching archaeology in your classroom, museum, library, or nature center, Project Archaeology is offering a 10% discount on their online workshop that begins on February 5: e-mail [email protected] to get your discount code and register by January 22! For an additional $42, you can get 2 graduate credits! Visit the link above to learn more.

Recommended for 3rd-6th grade teachers, but adaptable for anyone teaching K-12 students formally or informally, you will use this virtual workshop to practice the basics of scientific inquiry (observation, inference, evidence, and classification) using authentic archaeological data.

Learn firsthand how to help your students apply archaeological concepts as they uncover a shelter from colonial, Native American, frontier, and/or slave life. All while using primary data sources such as maps, artifact illustrations, historic photographs and oral histories. By using this curriculum you will fulfill many Common Core State Standards requirements in social studies, English Language Arts, and math. You can customize your course by choosing which shelter you want to investigate! We highly recommend the, "Investigating a Midwestern Wickiup" shelter, which was developed here at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, featuring a wickiup from the Bell site in Wisconsin and contemporary perspectives from Meskwaki Tribal Museum staff in Tama, Iowa!