Summer Reading Incentive Ideas!

We are working with READ-O cards for students!  Check out these cards and personalize them for your library or school!

READ-O Board
READ-O Activities

Planning and Connecting: A Workshop for Planners and Preservationists

Thanks for joining us at the Broomfield Crescent Grange! Here are resources for you electronically so that you can reference them in the future.

Agenda

Resource Links:

 Minecraft: http://twogeekyteachers.blogspot.com/2015/11/minecraft-and-primary-sources-at.html

 Blabberize: http://twogeekyteachers.blogspot.com/2014/11/blabberize-adding-voice-to-primary.html

Rephotography:https://www.facebook.com/Rephotography-159026447569668/

Preservation 50: http://twogeekyteachers.blogspot.com/search?q=place

HALS and HABS: http://twogeekyteachers.blogspot.com/2013/11/you-may-be-geeky-teacher-if-you-cant.html

Pueblo HABS Resources: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshaer/co/co0400/co0452/photos/327802pv.jpg

Tech Resources For Outreach: http://twogeekyteachers.blogspot.com/2017/02/saving-places-conference-learning.html

Library Catalog Search Options Can Make You a Better Teacher!

School Libraries are able to offer search options that make sense for their patrons!  My school offers a catalog that kids and teachers can search by DRA reading level, lexile level, reading comprehension quiz programs Accellerated Reading, Reading Counts and by reading strategies.  Students can target titles that are available in their DRA range or push themselves to the next level.  Teachers can search by a reading strategy like summarizing to find titles that will help them to teach that strategy.  What does your Library Catalog offer to help you become an even better teacher?

Saving Places Conference: Learning Together

 

 



We are excited to join our Historic Preservation and Communications buddies to present at the annual Colorado Preservation Inc Saving Places Conference. Great learning and collaboration takes place each year at this conference and we love sharing new ideas that benefit our historic places.

Once again we join with another geek we love to share some new tech tools that can be used in the classroom and elsewhere. Check them out here!

10 Tech Tools for Historic Preservationists

And another resource sheet which we will add ideas to by Feb 4th

bit.ly/HPIncredible

Then, fun happens while we talk about or work with gaming in the classroom to support engagement in learning about historic places, and join the City Planner from Florence, Colorado and game designer Wade Broadhead, to share some great thoughts and ideas about using gaming to learn about historic places. Bring your cards and Pokemon - we are set to GO!

Gaming for History

Hidden Figures: Resources for Discussion

For many, the new feature film Hidden Figures is a surprise. This story that few know, is a powerful one indeed, and one that can kickstart wonderful discussions about a variety of topics related to STEM, the power of thoughtful women making a difference in our world, civil rights, and the power of education. We have compiled a list of resources online to support teaching about the film as an effort to put them in one location for reference for educators.  Take the time to see the film- you will not be disappointed!

Resources for Hidden Figures

Articles/ Video Clips

NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/16/505569187/hidden-figures-no-more-meet-the-black-women-who-helped-send-america-to-space

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olympia-lepoint/movie-review-hidden-figur_b_13997592.html

Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/01/09/hidden-figures-reveals-4-great-lessons-for-science-and-society/

PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/inside-hidden-figures/

CNET:

https://www.cnet.com/news/hidden-figures-film-nasas-female-math-geeks-get-their-due/

Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-nearly-forgotten-story-of-the-black-women-who-helped-land-a-man-on-the-moon/2016/09/12/95f2d356-7504-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?utm_term=.d80c11516d29

NASA:

Johnson

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_kjohnson.html

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/a-lifetime-of-stem.html

Vaughan:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography

Jackson:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-talk-with-cast-of-hidden-figures-at-kennedy-space-center

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mary-jackson-at-nasa-langley

From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/larc/from-computers-to-leaders-women-at-nasa-langley

Family Discussion Guide:

Twentieth Century Fox Discussion Guide for Families

Lesson Plans

NASA Modern Figures Toolkit:

https://www.nasa.gov/modernfigures-education-toolkit/

Who is Katherine Johnson:

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/who-is-katherine-johnson-5-8

HS Level (Could be adapted)

American Institute of Physics:

https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/history/teaching-guides/johnson-human-computer-haynes/West%20Area%20Computers_Lesson%20Plan.pdf

Oral HIstory:

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/katherine-g-johnson-42

Video:

NASA Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3AvxrVTic&feature=youtu.be

Johnson Medal Of Freedom: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4564942/diamond-soror-katherine-g-johnson

People Behind the Movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhNhJG-EjQ

Mrs. Obama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWqQq2lrPA

A Mind Doesn’t Have Color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5O3Ox1TAVs

Pharrell Williams Video:

https://youtu.be/8_CfmM7gaiw

MAKERS: Clip of Katherine Johnson explaining her story  

https://youtu.be/D5MaW-elHBs

CBSN: Overview   https://youtu.be/w2vXUyAgwo8

White House Event: Panel discussion with author of book, actors, and director.  Background info about the movie, how the actors became a part of this project, how the actors portrayed the real-life women. The whole panel discussion is inspirational, but when Michelle Obama speaks at the end her speech it is AMAZING! https://youtu.be/SY-Emk98wC0

*** the sound cuts out from 13:24-13:47

•  Michelle Obama clip only:  https://youtu.be/SY-Emk98wC0  and start at 31:00

Blogs

Author’s website:

http://margotleeshetterly.com/

Resources from Teaching Tolerance:

Dr. King’s Final Speech: http://perspectives.tolerance.org/central-text-anthology?q=node/1617/1