Teacher Resources

See Bryan for more information on how to use all of these templates and models.

• Big 6 Inquiry Model: This is a Google Slide presentation template that lets you and/or your students plan an inquiry project following the Big 6 Inquiry Model, including explanations and support (can be used individually or in groups).

• Design Thinking: This is a Google Slide presentation template for students to follow the Design Thinking process, including explanations and support (can be used individually or in groups).

• PBL Essential Elements Checklist: Use this checklist to plan an authentic project-based learning activity for your students. 

• Personal Pathfinder: This is a basic model for personal inquiry focusing on progress toward student change-making action and social entrepreneurship with a strong reflection element.

• CARS Explained: Checklist for evaluating sources on the information highway.

• Civic Online Reasoning Introduction (COR): Slide deck introduction to Civic Online Reasoning at RCHS and its connection to SIFT - the four moves. 

• COR Explained: Video introduction to Civic Online Reasoning.

• Ethics of Representation: Critical questions for analyzing media messages.  

• Reflecting on Media Literacy: Use this online tool to reflect on the media you are consuming as you learn to evaluate it on your own.

• SIFT Explained: More explanation about the four moves.

• How is skepticism different from cynicism?: Be a skeptic, not a cynic!

• Audiobooks and Ebooks: See what audiobook options we have available to support the titles students are reading in the classroom. 

• DVD Players: We have portable CD/DVD players available for checkout at the circulation desk. Players should be checked out ONLY for the week in which you intend to use it and returned as soon as you are finished. 

• Multimedia: Search our collection (Search Options>Format>Audiobook or Video) or come browse our selection of fiction DVDs, documentary films, and audiobooks in the office behind the circulation desk. Teachers can check out multiple items for three weeks at a time. If there are items we should have in a collection, please let us know! 

• Destiny Collections: Destiny Collections are online listings and previews of texts and online resources organized around particular topics. We have collections highlighting new additions to the collection, as well as subject- and topic-specific collections to support your classes. Let us know if you would like us to build a collection for you!

• Genre Descriptions: Learn how we have organized our fiction collection to make it easier for students to find a book they want to read.

• Learning Ally: You and your students can access a variety of simultaneous-use audiobooks through the Learning Ally app. See Bryan to activate your students, who can then log in using their school email address and student ID number. 

• Sora Simultaneous Free Access Titles: Sora is our app for ebooks and audiobooks. This list includes "simultaneous access" titles, meaning multiple students can be accessing them at the same time.