There, you'll find databases ranging from biography, literature, history, science, social studies, Opposing Viewpoints, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, ProQuest's CultureGrams, and more.
For a quick how-to guide with links to specialized research resources specifically curated for our AAPS secondary level students, see this sharable document (only accessible via your AAPS Google account).
There, you'll find databases ranging from biography, literature, history, science, social studies, Opposing Viewpoints, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, ProQuest's CultureGrams, and more.
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The Ann Arbor Public Schools has published a website chock full of in-house learning opportunities, called the Learning On Demand suite of resources. See this link: https://sites.google.com/aaps.k12.mi.us/learningondemand/home The website offers drop in PD sessions specifically designed for teachers needing some support teaching from home, provided by our own in-house expert staff. You'll find real-time/live, on-demand, "face to face" support (Ask An Expert), as well as recordings of previously offered presentations, how-to guides, slide shows, and more. See also the AAPS staff resources page, which has been updated to accommodate us during this time: https://www.a2schools.org/domain/2317 Since the local libraries are currently closed and books are expensive, see the following list of places students can go to access free books online. For free eBook and Audiobook resources for middle grade students, CLICK HERE. Our AAPS library department has been developing a list of resources (K-12), which you will find shared with you in this message. You will need to scroll past the K-5 section to see the secondary portion. See the list HERE: click this link. As always, if you need help with anything library/literature/tech-related, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you, Kyle Kipp Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom. Go to the site here: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ Google Meet is a free and easy app that is already built into your Google account (if you already have one). Simply open it up and get started. I've attached a really handy one-sheet (also in Spanish) that will get you started in no time. As always, if you have any questions, let me know and I'll gladly facilitate. Google Meet is just like Skype, Zoom, and many other video conferencing apps. But the nice thing is, it is free and easy, especially if you already use Google apps (such as Gmail, Docs, etc.) because it is already built in. You can hold meetings with as little as one other person, all the way up to hundreds of people. You can send invites to people, run the meeting, record the session, share your screen (screencast) or slide show, and so much more. Take a look at the attached PDF file below and give it a try!
There is a lot of information flying around out there as teachers, parents, and students scramble to handle learning and teaching from home. Here is a comprehensive list of resources to help facilitate these tasks (updated daily; check back often).
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More to come, check back daily! Have fun celebrating National Poetry Month by using this website to easily make your own acrostic poem: http://www.acrosticpoem.org/ POETS.org is a great resource to learn about poems, find great poems, learn how to write poems, read about poetry history and poet biography, and so much more! Check it out! In this time of social distancing, see how poets are responding and expressing themselves through their poetry: https://poets.org/poem/social-distancing |
Mr. Kipp, Tappan LibrarianI am the librarian faculty at Tappan Middle School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Archives
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