Quarter 2 Library Lesson Ideas by Carrie Boos

Readers Theater with Fables

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:29:06 UTC

Create a newspaper page about Jane Goodall and her work with chimpanzees

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:29:44 UTC

Create interviews with Jane Goodall in pairs (one is the interviewer, one is Jane) and record using green screens and jungle background

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:30:18 UTC

Sequencing: Read Mister Seahorse and complete sequencing activity

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:31:16 UTC

Virtual field trip to visit apes, then write and sketch observations like Jane

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:32:44 UTC

Similes with https://switchzoo.com/newzoo/zoo.htm - kids create an animal then describe it with similes (“head like a zebra, tail like a lion…”)

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 18:33:38 UTC

STEAM connection: Arctic Creature Features focusing on whales/blubber: https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/blubber-experiment/

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 19:18:03 UTC

Read about landforms (and visit some in Google Earth), then use makerspace materials, legos, Educreations (drawing iPad app) etc. to create models of different landforms (or in science, land features of earth)

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 19:20:51 UTC

Read about the phases of the moon. Illustrate each phase. Use Stopmotion app to create stopmotion animation.

carrie_boos — 2025-10-09 19:27:09 UTC

Space Research

2025-10-14 20:03:06 UTC

Research a planet and create a Google Slides presentation about it

The Panda Problem

2025-10-14 20:04:19 UTC

Interactive story which introduces that stories have setting, character, problem, and solution

Farm animal Research

2025-10-14 20:04:33 UTC

Identify information about a chosen farm animal then share with the group

Students make a "flipgrid" type video to share with others

Helping with mountain research project: Students choose a mountain range to research, then create a slide to represent it in a virtual museum:

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:04:50 UTC

Retelling Fairy tales with bee bots

2025-10-14 20:05:11 UTC

Writing/Drawing their own simple fairy tale

2025-10-14 20:05:41 UTC

Learn about primary sources and NC history using lessons from NC Museum of History:

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:06:16 UTC

synonym “shades of meaning” word chains.

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:07:14 UTC

Idioms

2025-10-14 20:07:23 UTC

Idiom costume parade. Students create costumes to show literal meaning of the idiom.

Map out the locations Milo went to in The Phantom Tollbooth and capture the main idea of each location. Students could also create a symbol for each place on the map and code BlueBots to follow the path through the story.

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:08:21 UTC

Design a poster for the Phantom Tollbooth movie using Canva

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:09:17 UTC

Weather Phenomena Research

2025-10-14 20:09:32 UTC

Students choose a specific weather phenomena and go more in-depth on what causes the weather phenomena, its characteristics, etc. Create Google Slides presentation on their research. Bonus STEM activity to make rainmakers touching on history of weather.

Students in groups reading different Native American legends then coming back to the group to share with others.

2025-10-14 20:09:47 UTC

Students creating their own tall tales

2025-10-14 20:10:12 UTC

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, Legend of the Poinsettia

2025-10-14 20:10:47 UTC

(other Tomie dePaola legends)

Read about friction; use straws to reduce friction (STEM)

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:11:05 UTC

Creating a map of their very own island. Each landmark having something to do with them.

2025-10-14 20:11:16 UTC

STEM: Create constellations with toothpicks/marshmallows

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:12:44 UTC

Use green screens to either create interviews with Galileo on house arrest, or report on the news about the moon landing

carrie_boos — 2025-10-14 20:14:42 UTC

History: If you...book series

2025-10-14 20:15:05 UTC

groups can make posters based on a question in these books.

Readers Theater

2025-10-14 20:18:40 UTC

After reading Christmas in Outer Space Reader's Theater and learning about Chris Hadfield and have students rewrite Jingle Bells with outerspace vocabulary from Wit & Wisdom. They can use online tools to add music to their new song. An Astronaut's Christmas Carol: Jewel in the Night