Discovery bottles to illustrate magnetism…these turned out to be so much fun! Cheap and easy to assemble…I’m so glad I made these. Let me show you how! For a magnetic discovery bottle, you need to start with a smooth bottle. Students will be running a magnet around the outside of the bottle, and bumpy bottles…
Animals Should NOT Borrow Library Books! BOOK CARE is something that we teach, re-teach, and then re-teach again in the school library. And still we find pages with teeth marks or spilled drinks all over them. Here is a learning center to help your students think about this subject in a different way. The “I…
Why spider centers? Well, so far my library centers have been inanimate, but this year, I’m going to add LIVE ANIMALS to boost science and nature learning. I can’t wait to see the look on my students’ faces as they walk into the room and see my creepy creatures!I can actually borrow tarantulas from my…
One of my library centers is a shelf talker contest. I set up a table with an “I Can” sign (see example below), blank (unlined) 4 by 6 cards, pencils, and colored pencils, crayons, and markers.I collect the entries for a couple of weeks. Then some of my book fair volunteers help me judge the…
Here is my lesson plan for introducing shelf talkers to my students. After the lesson, I make this activity an occasional work station in the library. Materials: blank, unlined 4 x 6 cards; crayons, markers, or colored pencils; Movie poster to display Content Area: Language Arts Grades: 1-5 Marzano Strategies: Using Non-Linguistic Representations Cooperative LearningAASL…