We are Magnet!

Bear Exploration Center is a certified magnet and STEM school. We are committed to STEAM learning through all content and specialist areas. We implement a rigorous curriculum embedded in STEAM learning. Our STEAM focus supports our commitment to high expectations and academic excellence. This Google Site provides evidence of our commitment to STEAM learning to increase students' engagement and motivation for lifelong learning.

Standards

2.1 The library media center is a place where individuals and groups of students use information to extend classroom studies and to further personal interests.

2.4 Collaborating with teacher to plan and implement instructional units integrating the resources of the library media center with the classroom curriculum.

Artifacts

Get to Know the Library Scavenger Hunt:

Objective: Students will know how to locate books and other parts of the library.

I had re-arranged the library to make it more accessible.

Standards: AASL1.1.3, 1.1.6, 1.3.4,1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 2.1.5, 3.1.2, 3.2.2, 3.3.5 ELA: SL.K1A, SL.K.1B, SL.K.3, SL.2.1A, SL.2.1B, SL.2.1 ELA:

Directions: Students had 10 scavenger hunt cards to help them locate different parts of the library and know what type of book was in that area. These areas included: fiction, non-fiction, biographies, check-in, check-out, different book series, and the areas that were Genrefyed.

In addition to reinforcing ELA standards, the library partners with classrooms to support the teaching of various science and social studies standards with books as well as stem activities.

Habitats and ecosystems.

Partnering with Teachers:

Objective: To reinforce what the students are learning in their classrooms, and linking that knowledge to STEM activities and to books.

Standards: AASL 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, Science: K4, K5, K7, K8, K9, K10, 1.1,1.2,1.3, 2.7, 3.9, 3.15, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13 Social Studies: 5.8,5.9

Directions: Students had different activities depending on the subjects they were studying in their classrooms. K-