6 No-Tech Coding Activities You Can Do at Home
Often when you think about coding, you think of computers or tablets, but coding can be done with absolutely no technology! Whether you teach in a classroom with only [...]
Often when you think about coding, you think of computers or tablets, but coding can be done with absolutely no technology! Whether you teach in a classroom with only [...]
Pi Day is one of those “holidays” that I didn't know about when I was a student. Once I became a teacher and librarian, I now find it to [...]
When I think of green screens and video production I think of the Hollywood magic that produces the likes of Harry Potter soaring over the Quidditch field on his [...]
With the New Year still fresh, I wanted to come up with a fun activity for students to do that involved coding and goal-setting. While I came up with [...]
My students regularly inform me that KEVA Planks are “fun” and “educational”—and I must agree! KEVA Planks have always been popular among students in my library, but until recently [...]
This school year I decided to challenge myself in the library. In the past, the only classes I had were ELA, or library related lessons, and on occasion, Social [...]
Most of last year I raised money through grant writing and hosting movie nights and book fairs with one main goal in mind: to buy a 3D printer for [...]
As a librarian, I often find some people do not think that the library could be the place to explore physics concepts - but it is! Topics like engineering, [...]
I am not going to lie, when I was first told about circuits in makerspaces, my first thought was “Electricity? And middle school students? I don’t think so!” It [...]
Growing up I never imagined building bricks, like LEGOs or BrickLab Brick packs, would be a serious part of curriculum; I just liked to build and create with them. [...]