Karen DeBlock, Textbook Manager
Click here to access the Textbook/Novel Request Form
General info: Do not let students leave books in your classroom if the books are checked out under the student's name. If you want students to have a book IN class, please check out a class set in YOUR name. Students are responsible for the barcode of the book that they checked out and will not receive credit if they turn in someone else's book. Students are encouraged, to pencil their names inside their books so that they don't get swapped with a classmate's.
Requests: Please make all of your Textbook/Novel Set requests using the Request form. Please allow AT LEAST ONE FULL SCHOOL DAY, but the more time, the better! Keep in mind that the books you request might not be available when you want them, so it's best to have time to plan ahead or change your schedule.
Returns: The easiest way to handle returns is to have students return books on their own time. You can bring your whole class to return books if you want, or send them in small groups. The ONLY rule is DO NOT COLLECT BOOKS FROM STUDENTS. Do not take a book from a student. Students MUST return books to the library in person.
Let me know if there are any questions or issues! :)
The IDC (aka DLMC) has a wealth of teaching, tech, & library resources for teachers. There are kits, books, class sets, group sets, technology, robotics sets, even music for choir and band! See Stephanie for help.
Approved Middle School Novel & Textbook List - check both, as some titles are only on the MS list (ie The Book Thief)
Contact Stephanie Sjoland to set up your account or get help.
Setting Up Reasonable Accommodations in Canvas
Canvas How-To Videos- how to add 3rd party tools such as Flipgrid, Screencast-o-Matic, Edpuzzle
Using Padlet in Canvas
Embedding Quizlet into Canvas
Studymate flashcards and learning games for Canvas
Copyright Fair Use Checklist - Use this to determine if your use of a copyrighted material might fall under the Copyright Act's Fair Use provision.
Library of Congress Primary Source Tool
JSTOR Daily - Free online magazine that pairs news and current events with freely accessible scholarship. Stories are organized into subject areas that make it easy to find course-aligned content that is educational and engaging.
AI & ChatGPT Detection Tools - padlet with detection tools, articles, and information
Citing ChatGPT, Bard and other AI tools - Noodletools: how to cite AI responses. Expect patterns of fast changes as the official style guides adapt and update to quickly-evolving situations.
MLA:
https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/
APA:
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt
Chicago:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0423.html
Gapminder - Free teaching materials to dismantle misconceptions and promote a fact-based worldview. Develops data visualization tools to let people explore the vast treasure of global statistics.
Stock Market Experience - a FREE, robust online real-time investment simulation program that teaches students about personal financial literacy and economics. Student teams invest a virtual $100,000 in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs on the US markets.
Provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas. Use your Google SSO.
Gabriel García Márquez Collection - (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas) A free digital archive which includes manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, notebooks, screenplays, printed material, ephemera, and an audio recording of García Márquez's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Use the search box at the top to search the collection.
The Bill of Rights Through the Lens of Dystopian Tales - from Edutopia Curriculum Planning
Pop Culture Classroom - Pop Culture Classroom’s mission is to inspire a love of learning, increase literacy, celebrate diversity and build community through the tools of popular culture and the power of self-expression. Join us for free comics, curriculum, teaching guides, event updates, and more!
Free YA eBooks! - Riveted Lit - from Simon & Schuster offers FREE BOOKS every month!
If You Can Only Read One Book Per Country, Make It This - a list from BookRiot
Paraphrasing Pack - Turnitin. Teaching resources, videos, assessments
JSTOR: Global Plants in the Classroom: Botany 101 - a freely available resource and study aid to help teachers and students of botany-related courses use Global Plants
Planting Science - Provides inquiry experiences for students by connecting volunteer scientists to small student teams for student-centered research projects.
Earth Exploration Toolbox - Developed by teams of scientists and educators, the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system.
The Field Book Project - (National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Archives) intends to create a "one stop" archive for field research journals and other documentation. You can find plenty of examples from actual field research journals for your classes.
Understanding Evolution - Berkeley's website is the precursor to their Understanding Science efforts. The Understanding Evolution website provides a plethora of resources, news items and lessons for teaching about evolution
Periodic Videos - University of Nottingham, short videos about each of the periodic elements
Pop Culture Classroom - Pop Culture Classroom’s mission is to inspire a love of learning, increase literacy, celebrate diversity and build community through the tools of popular culture and the power of self-expression. Join us for free comics, curriculum, teaching guides, event updates, and more!
Gapminder - Free teaching materials to dismantle misconceptions and promote a fact-based worldview. Develops data visualization tools to let people explore the vast treasure of global statistics.
Ken Burns in the Classroom - PBS LearningMedia - While we have many of the full-length Ken Burns DVDs in the library, PBS provides clips that can be watched for free--just need Internet!
‘Selma Online’: Young People Impact the Vote - Teaching Tolerance resource
Teaching Tolerance Classroom Resources - We also have many of their films on DVD to borrow in the library.
World War I and the 1920s - Teaching American History. Primary source documents with study questions.