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QFT in the Elementary Classroom
4th Grade, Why information is so important? Use photos to have students create questions

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The Very Busy Spider
First Lesson
Maker Lesson Students Created Spiders

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Book Blurbs/Bathroom Blurbs

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Responsibility Unit -
What choices do we make with our money?

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Book Tasting Event
2 Days before Thanksgiving

Trying to increase circulation of books at HS.

Reading for Pleasure - when did you stop reading for pleasure (they said when they started being graded on it)

Google Doc to sign up to bring their classes in.

SUPA Class (Seniors) & 15:1 class and students read to each other

Genre Tables

Collaborations -
Web Design Teacher - needed a project and they designed a website
Students interviewed librarian and staff to create the website .  Book tastings form like a wine tasting

FACS - provided all the food

Art/Photography - designed the logo and provided music

Music - guitar, flutes, barbershop

Reservations desk to enter the library

Success - Circulated 330 books; some kids that never take out books checked out books; kids want to continue it

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Folktale - Ancher Chart
Story Elements: Create Characters, setting and plot, oh my!

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Book Trailer Evaluation
Showed the students the data

Library of Animoto Trailers for the School Library

Success - Analyses the trailer; appreciating that it is not writing

Possible Options:
WeVideo
iMovie

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Share Your Passion
Thin or Thick Questions
Bracketology, narrowing my focus
Show What You Know
Some students took it to the next level... Save the World Great PBL

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Kindergarten Lesson Template
Welcome Song, 4 Finger Reminder, Dancing Fingers, Mystery Box, Word of the Week, Pre-reading Activity, Story, Reflection, Poem/Song, Review, Book Checkout

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Goal - Getting teachers to use other books.  Give students a choice even in the books

Civility Book Battles
Prior:  Raisin in the Sun
Formed Teams  of 4 - each student would read one of the books
Fiction & Nonfiction

Time : Month and Half

Points: Attendance Counts; short in class assignments

Questions - close reading

Relevant - students read better than ever

Assessment - Understanding Diverse Perspectives Through Diplomatic Dialogues

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Book Breakout - Earn Your Bedtime Story Family Literacy Night
17 Breakout Boxes, 85 Participants, Boxes divided by grade level, parents really enjoyed.

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Greek Gods in Product Names and Advertising Takes Two Class Periods
In depth research on Greek God, put on bulletin board titles OMG. They like it, they like using Fact Cite.

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Copyright aka "sex" talk

Focus on Empathy - what do you do (downloading, buying) and are a part of the conversation

Case Studies - divide kids into groups and analyses the case.  Prove and students vote on the case

Is this a case of Fair Use?

Success - kids are into it and it is relevant to their lives and how they use information.  Do not just go over what we are doing wrong and show how to do it right

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Google CS First Coding
The kits are Free, run on Scratch
Kids love, they're engaged and stay on task. CS-first.com

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CS First has been turned down - CS First Help

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Google’s CS First was turned down on June 30, 2025. When CS First launched in 2013, the intention was to provide much-needed resources for K-12 computer science education. The landscape has since evol

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After AP Exam - keep students engaged for the last month

Students select a nonprofit and understand the mission statement and who they serve.  Come up with a project their nonprofit would want to do.  Write in groups of 2 a proposal minus financials and present to a small group (teachers, librarian, administrator)  Infographics, PSAs for nonprofit

Success - relevant to their lives as it is a passion project; parents feel it is a valuable skill as they do it in their life

Negative - way too short of a timeline to complete; better to have member of the nonprofit come and evaluate

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FLEXIBILITY is the KEY to SUCCESS

Tammy - difficult because she is only at the HS half a day so there is a lot of book work rather than teaching classes.  It is challenging.  She gets some of the 6th graders and not all and random students (30 minutes).

Makerspaces - success shoebox marble mazes; troubleshooting

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Collaboration with teachers; idea from twitter; required kids to be physically moving/active.