Spring 2020 Resources
Lesson ideas
Full-text Reading/Listening Options
Teachers: Here's how the LMC can help to support you:
Pathfinders: Do you want me to make a pathfinder for a unit or project for your class? Students find pathfinders
helpful because they save them time and link them to valuable, authoritative resources (online and print).
If you are interested in ordering one, stop by the LMC, call me at X4007, or e-mail me at [email protected].
Co-teaching: I can also help support you in teaching the Common Core. I teach students web evaluation, research using databases and ebooks, bibliographic instruction, internet ethics, webtools, and more.
I am happy to visit classes or teach your students in the Library Media Center.
Ordering: If you have suggestion for our collection, print or electronic, please let me know. If you need an article that you can't find in our collections, I have Minuteman Library Consortium, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, and Boston Public Library e-cards. I will try to find anything you need.
Audio- Visual: We have digital cameras (Point and Shoot), Digital movie cameras, tripods, and voice recorders. Believe it or not we also have a vintage record player and a small vinyl collection!
AV Books: Most books read for English class are available on iPods. If you need a book turned into audio, please let me know. I have to "find" book on CD, and load each disc into iTunes. The process is not speedy, so as much advance notice as possible please!
We also have a collection of Nooks. Many titles are loaded and they are all listed in the book catalog.
Virtual Reality: The New York Times donated a class set of Google Cardboard viewers!
FOR NEW TEACHERS 2017:
F new teachers - 10/23/2
Library Collections:
PRINT:
Books: We have a small print reference collection and a non-fiction collection organized by the Dewey Decimal system. Our growing fiction collection is shelved alphabetically by the author's last name. Dictionaries, atlases, a small world language collection, short stories, oversize volumes, graphic works, and biographies are shelved separately.
WHS Yearbooks are kept in the workroom. We have most years from 1970 on.
Two new collections: test prep books and a professional collection are on the bookcases in the back corners of the library.
A small collection of magazines and newspapers are in the front of the library. We don't keep them long, so feel free to ask for older issues to use in projects in class.
File cabinet in the back of the library contains a strange, little local history collection. Most of the contents are about WHS, the old buildings and building this campus.
NONPRINT - see database page of LMC webpage
Supplies and services:
We offer students paper (lined, plain and graph), index cards, post-its, pencils, rulers, a hole punch, staplers...
We have two laminators and are happy to laminate posters for you. The large one, up to 24 inches across, takes about 20 minutes to warm up. The smaller one, for small 8.5 X 11 jobs, is faster to warm up.
I got a grant to run STEM activities monthly in the library. Students were not very interested, so there are many, random supplies. If you need something, ask! (Blocks, straws, a keyboard, paper cups, colored paper, rubber bands, art supplies...)
The Mac charging stations are housed in the library, but belong to the Tech Department.
Faculty Professional Resources
Teacher Passwords: You will need these in order to access the databases from home.
Educator's Reference Complete a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals and hundreds of full-text reports.
Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Teaching with Infographics
Cool Tools for School- technology in the classroom
Teachers First- includes ideas for how to incorporate web2.0 into multi-disciplinary curriculum.
English Grammar Quizzes
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics professional development, lesson plans, articles.
National Science Teachers Association grant listings, lesson plans, professional development.
Copyright for Educators
Historical and Social Issue Documentary Film site
Documentary Guide- free educational documentaries (science, historical, arts, and more)
History Hub from ABC- Clio
PD 2017 - Research Made Easy - Links
Google changing the way students learn
Assessing truth in the digital age
Database Updates
NBC Learn - Added a Clipping Tool (clip parts of the video to get a specific section) and added Spanish Closed Captioning to our Current Events and original videos. New content includes:
Gale Databases - instructions for sharing to Google Classroom
- Download docs to Google Drive
Create a Gale Virtual Reference Library Sub-collection
Sharing GVRL information with classes using bookmarks
Sharing information from In Context databases with classes
Sharing information from other Gale databases via bookmarks
Gale Apps on the Chrome Web Store
Create Journal Alerts
Create Search Alerts
Save Documents to OneDrive
Educator's Reference Complete a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals and hundreds of full-text reports.
Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Teaching with Infographics
Cool Tools for School- technology in the classroom
Teachers First- includes ideas for how to incorporate web2.0 into multi-disciplinary curriculum.
English Grammar Quizzes
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics professional development, lesson plans, articles.
National Science Teachers Association grant listings, lesson plans, professional development.
Copyright for Educators
Historical and Social Issue Documentary Film site
Documentary Guide- free educational documentaries (science, historical, arts, and more)
History Hub from ABC- Clio
PD 2017 - Research Made Easy - Links
Google changing the way students learn
Assessing truth in the digital age
Database Updates
NBC Learn - Added a Clipping Tool (clip parts of the video to get a specific section) and added Spanish Closed Captioning to our Current Events and original videos. New content includes:
- Chronicles of Courage; Stories of Wartime and Innovation
– This series highlights the innovation behind some of the most legendary planes of World War II with first person accounts by veteran pilots from the US, Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan. - Nanotechnology: Super Small Science
– In partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), we dived into the world of nanotechnology, which looks into the science of objects measure in the billionths of meters. - Science of Innovation
(updated)- In partnership with the NSF and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, continues to explore how innovation works, whether it’s using viruses to make batteries or the science behind bioprinting. - Human Water Cycle
– This series examines the tight connections between water, food and energy and how our increasing need for these resources is forcing us to rethink how we manage and use our water supply.
- What’s to come for the next 6 months: a new revamped offline player, flash player replacement with HTML5 player, apps to manage playlists offline, and a few others!
Gale Databases - instructions for sharing to Google Classroom
- Download docs to Google Drive
Create a Gale Virtual Reference Library Sub-collection
Sharing GVRL information with classes using bookmarks
Sharing information from In Context databases with classes
Sharing information from other Gale databases via bookmarks
Gale Apps on the Chrome Web Store
Create Journal Alerts
Create Search Alerts
Save Documents to OneDrive