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AP Seminars: Joined in the Google Meet for an AP Seminar class to speak about accurate and reliable research sources. Went over the features of DISCUS databases and spoke about different types of sources available.

Civics Class research project with the UN Global Goals (Riverside Middle School) - students used the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to identify global issues reflected in our own community and come up with a solution. The librarian created a website for the students to use to explore the goals selected by the teacher, and checked in with the groups as they worked and provided extra resources as necessary to address questions that arose during the inquiry. Students presented to their class, including the overview of the problem and their proposed solution.

--we do a big NF/activism project that could go with the social justice English unit

--choose your own adventure stories

--Magazine unit (design a cover, plan an interview & article, research periodicals)

Murder Mystery for Forensics Class- Worked with a class during their forensics unit and picked out "Who Dun It?" Novels. The teacher picked out a book and did a class read aloud with parts of the book in class and the students read the book on their own in between. They then processed and presented how the author used what they learned about in their novel to solve the murder.

Millionaire Challenge (Riverside Middle School) - In an effort to promote math, financial literacy, and reading, Mrs. Jenkins worked with the math department, the Greenville Federal Credit Union, and The Branch at Greenville High School to come up with programming around the book Millionaires for the Month, by Stacy McAnulty. Students listened to parts of the book, read by the librarian (with permission from the publisher), competed in Math Trivia, and did a Millionaire Challenge emulating the challenge the characters faced in the book, where they had to spend $1 million in just five days with lots of limitations. Students completed a Google Sheet that helped them budget, and a Google Slide to show off their purchases. Winners for each grade level and for faculty/staff won prizes sponsored by the Greenville Federal Credit Union. Students working in The Branch at Greenville High School created short videos teaching about saving, budgeting, and compound interest, and RMS students reflected on the videos and the challenge, including what changes they would make if they didn't have the restrictions on how to spend the $1 million. Everything culminated with a virtual author visit with Stacy McAnulty, for all students.