The rubric is designed to guide our practice in supporting and evaluating effective school librarian leadership development within this project.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This guide provides information and resources to help educators find openly-licensed texts.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The questions provide guidance and reflection as educators choose anchor texts for collaboration.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project, begins the Year 3 K-12 fellowships with NH school librarians and STEM teachers on February 2 and 4, 2017.
Material Type: Lecture
This is the timeline that we will use to collaborate during the SLASL project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, March 22, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, March 15, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This template provides an approach for creating a science investigation that includes reading-focused inquiry to build student science literacy skills.
Material Type: Unit of Study
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, Feb 22, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other issues.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Teaching/Learning Strategy
To prepare for the webinar, please download and watch this 9 minute video reviewing the important qualities of an anchor text.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with North Carolina school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, June 7, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy standards and other project issues.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The "School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning" (SLASL) project meeting with New Hampshire school librarians and STEM teacher fellows, September 20, 2017, to focus on STEM inquiry and literacy, and project-related issues. This meeting concerned reflecting on student work and incorporating teacher-librarian reflections into their authored unit on inquiry.
Material Type: Lecture Notes, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This unit includes one week of lessons which immediately follow the Genetics and DNA units. The previous knowledge gained from these units, as well as a previous project where students researched and shared with their classmates a specific genetic disorder, will provide the background for students to participate in a debate about the ethical issues of applying information available through the Human Genome Project (HGP).
Material Type: Reading, Unit of Study
Unit on creating a genetically modified organism (GMO). Students read several articles to gain real life knowledge on GMOs. Students follow the unit with an interactive notebook keeping track of their work. A final project is created based on their understanding of the knowledge gained from the unit. In the project the students will create a genetically modified organism that will impact the future.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Reading
The lessons in this unit were developed by teachers at Souhegan High School for junior/senior level Physics classes, to be taught during the first trimester of the 2016-17 school year. It includes 5-10 lessons that culminate in students demonstrating their ability to find meaning in complex text and incorporate key ideas of modern physics by completing the final creative writing project. Modern physics is a very broad topic. We will be focusing on three of the main pillars of modern physics — special relativity, general relativity, and quantum theory. The goal of the unit it to have students use the concepts of modern physics accurately in a creative way and increase their willingness and confidence to learn more about the subjects beyond high school. Modern physics is intimidating to the general public. We hope to spark students interest and have students realize that they can make sense out of the counter intuitive model of reality. Each topic will be broken into several phases of understanding: Limitations of classical physics Key principle that led to modern physics Models for describing modern physics Predictions and experiments that support and provide evidence for modern physics theories The students will explore the phases by using inquiry-based reading. They will explore an anchor text for meaning while looking for where it addresses the four phases above. Students will then perform additional research and apply what they have learned in class to create their final project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study
Over the course of the unit, students will explore a variety of texts and grow in their knowledge of superbugs and and their evolution over time. They will use informational text, video, lab activities and infographics to support their inquiry and research.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading, Simulation, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
This is a text-based STEM Inquiry, focusing on the mathematical standard of making inferences and justifying conclusions while evaluating reports based on data. The unit culminates in students presenting their findings comparing local to national data regarding the relationships between educational attainment and financial earnings.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This lesson was created by School Library Media Specialist, Pam Harland, and Math teachers Rebecca Hanna and Carissa Maskwa to model text-based inquiry in STEM. Over the course of the unit, students will explore a variety of texts and grow in their knowledge of fractals, city design, and ability to use informational text to support their inquiry and research.The unit was created in year two of the School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning (SLASL) project, led by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management (ISKME) in partnership with Granite State University, New Hampshire, and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Material Type: Unit of Study
The lessons in this unit were developed by teachers at Souhegan High School for junior/senior level Physics classes, to be taught during the first trimester of the 2016-17 school year. This unit culminates with small groups of students presenting their plans for the ideal power grid for the state of New Hampshire. While the anchor text and performance assessment may be specific to New Hampshire, texts specific to other regions are likely accessible through state universities, government websites and/or local publications, making this unit highly adaptable.
Material Type: Unit of Study
