This is a writing unit on animal adaptations. Students will need to be expert researchers and will be able to dip their toes into the wonderful world of EBSCO! They will research the animal assigned to them using various graphic organizers and research questions to help guide their thinking. Once research is complete, they will fill out the OREO graphic organizer with an introduction, 3 facts with details, and a conclusion. At that point, students will publish their work.  Cover Image: Canva AI Generated 

SFUSD's creative computing curriculum introduces computer science as a creative, collaborative, and engaging discipline to children in third through fifth grade.

Across 15-20 lessons at each grade level, students will learn about algorithms and programming, computing systems, the Internet, and impacts of computing, while developing strong practices and dispositions. Lessons are designed to be implemented in 45 to 60-minute periods approximately once per week.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Global Issues in Context, Gale's InfoTrac Newstand, and Gale's Science in Context to help students learn about acid rain and how humans can make better choices about our global environments. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale Reference Collection, World Book Encyclopedia, eMedia, and Library of Congress to help students learn about Alexander Graham Bell. 

3.2.4  Students will compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals.3.2.2  Students will differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.Created by: Shellet Rowley.  Picture taken by: Shellet Rowley

This resource is a google slide created to help students begin research for an animal report. This will help them use the explora piece to Utah's Online Library  

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Reference Collection, Gale's Global Issues in Context, and Gale's Biography in Context to help students learn about Antarctica. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Soundzabound to help students learn about the Birth of the Baby Boomers.  

This resource is a Language Arts student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, the three Gale databases (Kids InfoBits Grades K-6, Research in Context Grades 6-8, and Reference Collection Grades 9-12), the Library of Congress (located in the section called General Resources), and eMedia - to help students research and read about Booker T. Washington.

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online School Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids Infobits Grade K-6, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, and Gale's Reference Collection Grades 9-12 to help students learn about the Buffalo Soldiers. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, Gale's Info Trac Student Edition, Gale's Student Resources in Context, and World Book Encyclopedia to help students learn about The Battle of Bull Run. 

This is a lesson plan regarding middle school research. Students first complete their career research (different lesson plan). Next they complete this lesson which is completing a biography on an important person in their chosen career.  Picture taken by Jann Leishman  

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale in Context Elementary - to help students learn about the characteristics of rocks.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits - to help students learn about classifying spiders. 

In this eMedia Update, explore Open Educational Practice (OEP) with Katie Blunt. We learn how eMedia tools and the OER Collective hub can help you contribute to the eMedia community and participate in building a library of quality Open Educational Resources (OER) for Utah’s educators and learners.

In this eMedia Update, Katie Blunt introduces us to the 5-star-rating system, comments, and evaluations. These tools can help educators easily find high-quality resources that other educators have found valuable.

Students will learn to compose shapes using 2D shapes.Picture from: Pexels by Magda Ehlers

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, World Book Encyclopedia (World Book Discover) and eMedia to help students learn about continents. 

This resourch will help your students to practice use with Culture Grams in the Utah Online Library. This will help them build a foundation of what they need to have to use the resource effectively through completing a variety of tasks. 

This lesson plan will help students learn how create a podcast about their topic for National History Day, incorporating music clips found on Soundzabound from Utah's Online School Library.Image by: Internet Archive Book Images. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0