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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

If I'm reading a story to them, I also teach about parts of a book by way of creating citations, because when they go to high school and college, they're going to have to create a research paper that requires citations. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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6 Degrees of Separation Game for History

Students of History

They encourage critical thinking, creativity, and research skills. If you want to try the game with middle school or on-level students, there are accommodations you can make to make it fun for them. As you can imagine, are sometimes challenging, but fun for advanced or AP level history students.

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