When students are taking notes one of the hardest parts is getting them to record their sources at that moment. In all honesty, I am the same way. When you are on a roll, reading and taking notes, chasing down sources, finding new information, and getting new keywords, stopping to create an MLA or APA […]
Author: ariellehg
Student Voice AND Admin Voice- Library Remodel Part 2
Looking for Library Remodel Part 1? Click here Who uses your space the most? … the students. When redesigning the library I had a goal, ask the students. This was going to be their space. We as educators also have ideas in mind of what we need but this was there going to be their […]
Disrupting Thinking
We as humans often get stuck in routines, even with our thinking. We do the same things, day after day, and expect things to change, to get better. As teachers, this happens with our teaching and it ends up extending out to our students. Sit in the same seats, take attendance, read this chapter, answer […]
Library Remodel- Part 1
This year I started my new job in an outdated high school library. The collection of almost 14,000 items had an average age of 1997. (This is after the previous Library Media Specialist weeded 10,000 books one year prior). The room itself is full of traditional wooden tables and chairs, and book stacks that took […]
rowCall
Where would we be without Google Drive add-ons? If you do not know what an addon is, now is the time to learn. Add-ons are within Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Forms individually, and allow you to do more with each tool. My new favorite add-on is in Google Sheets: rowCall rowCall looks through a column and sorts […]
The Pringles Challenge
Last year was the first year I participated in the Pringles Challenge with 90+ fourth graders and their five teachers. It was one of the best STEM projects of the year. The Pringles Challenge is now accepting participants for this year: https://sites.google.com/site/newpringleschallenge/ Challenge: Students must design a unique package that will allow a SINGLE pringles chip […]
Electing a President
The New Jersey Gubernatorial debate was on television last night. It reminded me that I still need to blog about one my favorite technology integrated lessons that I did last year across grades 2-4, electing a grade level president. The project took nearly a month and coinciding with the presidential election. Since the candidates and topics […]
Family STEAM Night
One of my favorite nights of the year is Family STEAM Night. During the 15/16 school year, we decided to turn Family Reading Night, which had low attendance into Family STEAM Night. The response was so large we had to split the families into two rooms based on grades and turn families away that had […]
Chromebook Challenge
Going 1:1 is a huge change for teachers and students. It allows for personalized learning while putting a lot of responsibility on students that they didn’t have before. In my second year of 1:1 I realized the students needed to understand more of their responsibilities so I started the year off with a Chromebook Challenge. […]
Moving Up and Moving On
So much has happened the last few months but the biggest news is after 10 years in elementary school I am moving to high school. My excitement is indescribable. Before that happens I want to write all about all the amazing projects I have done that I never took the time to write about. Please […]