We look forward to helping you with your research needs, whether it is pulling together resources for to assist you in teaching a unit, providing resources for your students to use as they research for your class, teaching a mini-lesson for your students on how best to use the research resources, or even assisting you in finding information for your graduate school projects.  Let us know how we can best assist you! 

Are you new to ALB? 
​Check out this list of on-your-own professional development options to get you up to speed with some of the tools we use regularly! 

If you do not see something to meet your need, email us! 
​If you have a resource to suggest, let us know! 
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Earn CEUs for working with us!

If you partner with Katie, Susan, or Stacy to learn a new skill and try a new project with your classes, you may earn renewal credit with KCS.  See one of us to discuss this possibility.  :-)

Also, if you would like to earn CEUs, here are several more options for you!

I need...

֎ = MTSS Extension Ideas
֎ = Intervention-specific Support Block Ideas

... public library resources .

... virtual reality resources.

OPEN THIS DOCUMENT FULL SCREEN

• Visit the e-resources landing page. 
• Choose the tab you wish - usually the "Student" tab.
• Choose a resource. (Here's a list of some favorites.)
• Use a student ID number as the "library barcode number".

... Pear Deck cool stuff.

• Copy & paste icons for draggables (View this) (Get your own copy)
• Ideas for cool features you can use
  
• ​֎ ​Templates for slides, daily NewsELA slide decks, and weekly "Wonders"
  
• Turn on cool settings (See students' emotions, Give each student a copy of the presentation, etc. )

... a class set of ______.

... new ideas for lessons.

iPads (50)     
Print Novels  
Electronic books / Audiobooks (Students use their standard login. Teachers request a Sora login from Mrs. Bogle.)
Audiobooks - Provided by Discovery Education (First log in to NCEdCloud, then choose Discovery Education.  The link will then work.)
֎ ​High interest magazines

• Sample of what you get with each article
• Our magazines Scholastic Action and Science News have read-aloud. Here is a quick video tutorial about read-aloud.
• Once you have created a login for the Scholastic Action magazine, you can see this small collection of skills videos.  Includes spelling and grammar hacks.

֎ Lessons by Google - Using their products in a real world way. 
֎ Enrichment activities that are engaging (Biology examples - works for any area.)
֎ Ways to review without reteaching (Math examples - works for any area.)
֎ Get thinking about diagrams / charts (Biology examples - works for any area.)
֎ Ideas for using mini whiteboards (Check out a set of 30 whiteboards from the Media Center!)
​֎ Easy instructional strategies (First open MyNCEdCloud & Disc. Ed.)
֎ ​Instructional strategies by type
֎ ​The "Top 40" SOS strategies
Strategies by type of learner (EC, ESL, AIG, etc.) 
Ways to get students talking (and remembering content!)
֎ Using YouTube video essays
֎ Using the 6 word memoir strategy across the curriculum
​​Easy way to use multiple choice to get discussion and data
STEM content & strategies (First open MyNCEdCloud & Disc. Ed.)
֎ Lessons featuring real-life problems - Create solutions

• Logins and featured PBL ideas
• Complete website with ideas      3 min video about site

... interactive online activities.

... assessment ideas.

The KCS Teacher Toolkit - searchable resources
֎ Math and science simulations
֎ ֎ Brilliant.org (Interactive activities/ courses in math, science, computer science, and logic - Free with teacher email verification)
​֎ ֎ Graspable Math (moveable equation on digital whiteboard)
֎ ​Choose your own adventure American History
For your ELL learners (Look at the "Learning Resources")
​EdPuzzle   
֎ Gamification:

• Flippity (Awesome! - Makes your content so cool!)
• Blooket
• Quizlet
• Kahoots on all kinds of topics​
• Wardle (Create your own Wordle game)
• Nerdle (The math version of the Wordle game)
• EMC2Learning's Free Games (Work with Bogle for access to hundreds more games like this. You can also sign up to be a Tinker Teacher to get free editable Google Slides games!) 
• GooseChase EDU (Students use phones to do a digital scavenger hunt. 25 students total on free version.)
• ​Rocketcrab (Pictionary meets "Telephone". Use their words just for fun, or use content words for Extension time.) 

֎ Gamifying critical thinking skills:

• ​Beats Empire (One class period - Budgeting, planning, critical thinking)
• Community in Crisis (12 interactive episodes of 30 minutes each - Simulated problem to solve - Teacher resources provided - Create a free login to access - Geared toward middle school.)

֎ Gamifying information literacy:

• BBC iReporter (Choose own adventure game - 15 minutes per level - 4 levels - Decide which sources to trust) 
• NewsFeed Defenders (Suite of games - 8 games in Spanish - Teacher's guide - PowerPoint slideshows - Student guide)
• Bad News (15 minute game - Share as much incorrect info without losing credibility - Teacher's guide)

Big project? Engaging assessment with metacognition.
֎ Don’t Know Where to Start? Here are 16 Ideas!
Assessment ideas
֎ Using one blank sheet of paper as an assessment
֎ Student-created E-books to Show Learning
Remember the Key is Focusing on Open-Ended Activities

Rubrics:
Rubrics for assessments - not tests
Rubrics for student projects (These "Composition Jambox" rubrics also have MANY more supporting documents such as timelines for planning, reflection prompts, etc. Request them in the Media Center.)
Need Help Creating a Rubric to Score the Alternative Assessment?

֎ Creating a student "performance task" using GRASPS:

• ​Take a Look at The GRASPS Framework for Performance Tasks
• GRASPS Worksheet to create your own
• Need Some Example Ideas???
• ​Still Need More Example Ideas???

... digital citizenship resources.

• Lessons from Google (Search "digital citizenship")
• The rules of civil conversation
• Six free online activities for digital citizenship
• Stop.Think.Connect. tip sheets
• Email etiquette tips posters
• Ready to go classroom strategies on teaching digital citizenship (from Discovery Education)
• Discovery Education channel on these topics
• Choice board for digital citizenship discussions (NCEdCloud login needed)

... racial equity resources.

KCS's Racial Equity Resource webpage
​KCS's recommended reading list
Teacher Toolkit for anti-biased teaching (Good stuff here!)

... socio-emotional resources. (SEL)

֎ ​​Pear Deck's SEL templates already made
​2 Years' Worth of Daily SEL Classroom Conversation Prompts
Tons of resources and ideas from KCS
Webinars / Resources for putting SEL into content areas

... online resources.

... hands-on activities.

5 Ws of Website Evaluation
E-books for research (pw: wonders)
Online encyclopedia ​
​
"Clever" login for Khan Academy, Duolingo, NewsELA, coding and more!  (Log into My NCEdCloud needed.)
Streaming PBS videos - With lesson plan ideas!
Discovery Ed videos (Log into MyNCEdCloud first.)
Pixar's short films (no audio)
Puzzlemaker
Music for projects (No copyright issues)
All NC open-sourced resources (Search grade/ subject/ standard)

֎ ​Class set of Sphero Bolt robots (16 robots - for class up to 32)
      (Code them on student Chromebooks with this link!)
֎ ​Class set of maker items (low-tech)
֎ ​​Class set of Little Bits electronics
֎ ​Apps like Explain Everything, Tellegami Edu, & iMovie
7 coding stations (Little Bits, Sphero, Lego, Sphero Mini)
֎ ​​14 science "learning through doing" ideas
Khan Academy's hands-on science activities
Lessons for Little Bits, Sphero, and Lego WeDo

Green screen video recording (Email Katie.)

... the Breakout boxes.

​Breakout lesson template
​Resources and ideas to create your clues
Generic lesson intro slideshow - edit as you wish
֎ ​Breakout games that are already created on BreakoutEdu
     (Create your own free login to browse most games.)
     (Email Katie for access to the paid "Subject Pack" games.)
֎ ​Create digital locks w/ Flippity.net's Scavenger Hunt
֎ ​​Create digital locks with Google Forms - How-tos

... physical resources.

Culture Kits: Boxes of real items from around the world - Available by advance reservation from UNC

Search for items available in the ALB Media Center in Destiny:
Large prints of images
DVDs
Children’s books
​Books for your content area

... administrative stuff.

... to build reading skills.

ClassroomScreen.com (Whiteboard, clock, timer, text, etc.)
ClassTools.Net (Timers, name pickers, etc.)
Flippity.net (Name pickers, manipulatives, games, etc.)
ILovePDF.com (If you need to do anything with a PDF, use this!)
Die cut machine (Cut out bulletin board letters.)
Lamination
Circulation system for classroom libraries (Borrow our scanner!)
Showing a movie that is rated R

Sora ebooks and audiobooks for pleasure reading (and track your students' progress!)

• Define, annotate, highlight, and more!
• Export your notes: How-to ​video or PDF

Fiction journaling questions
Non-fiction journaling questions

֎ ​5 cool ideas to engage your students with a particular book
֎ Modeling processing of non-fiction texts

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... to teach financial literacy.

... articles for graduate school.

Lesson plans, guides, videos, and interactive modules
Engaging self-paced modules with educator guides
֎ Google's Applied Digital skills - Search "financial"
֎ Stash101: Real world financial situations (Curriculum)
Pear Deck lessons made with Next Gen Personal Finance
​​Discovery Education videos and activities (First open MyNCEdCloud & Disc. Ed. icon.)

Search all of NC DPI's databases with one search window.  (Click here to see the password you will need off campus.)

... ideas for AIG students.
​(Katie is AIG certified.)

... ideas for EC and ML students.

Two quick ideas you can do tomorrow with your AIG students.
֎ ​Extension project ideas for if they finish early
KCS AIG website of ideas

Communicate with newcomers who don't speak English!
Add extension to translate any website: Tutorials in English and Spanish
Diffit - AMAZING TOOL!

• Change any text or website to an accessible level
• Translate
• Auto-generates vocabulary, multiple choice, and open ended questions
• Exports to an editable Google Doc or Form

֎ Graphic organizers in English and Spanish
​​​֎ Breaking down "juicy sentences" into understandable chunks
Dictionary with easy to understand definitions
Summarize any text instantly: Option 1 -or- Option 2
KCS website of ideas

... resources for CKH and MTSS.

֎ ​Ideas Resource Document
֎ First Five: Daily CKH ideas in your email
֎ SEL activity ideas
֎ Choice Board with 9 activities
​֎ ֎ MTSS and CKH Exemplar Videos and Strategies
Google Drive folder of curated CKH ideas
Article with ways to use CKH throughout the semester
​Social Contract Help - Slides and document (Thanks, Coach Mac!)
CKH website resources (Log in to CKH first, then the link will work.)

Digital Competencies For Teachers

Tech Essential Standards For Students - One page layout

Tell me, and I forget.
Teach me, and I remember.
Involve me, and I learn.
~Benjamin Franklin

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