You Might Be a Geeky Teacher If You've Created a Digital Breakout

It's Time to Break Out!

Have you tried the breakout boxes available on Breakout Edu?  They are engaging, push critical thinking and collaboration.  We've used the breakout boxes and even built our own to save some money!  They've been used for faculty professional development, lesson hooks and complete units!  Recently, we learned about digital breakouts and decided to try one for an upcoming introduction of Ancient Egyptian and Hieroglyphic studies.  We've been pairing picture books with primary sources for secondary lessons and what better way to introduce a picture book than a digital breakout?  Check out our first attempt at a digital breakout!  We used a primary source picture, edpuzzle and a video, a game and our school's Discovery Education video library.

https://sites.google.com/ccpsnet.net/centuryegypt

Creating the components:
The Locked Form:

• Create a new form
• Create a short answer question: Decide what kind of lock it is.
• Click on the three dots, select “Response Validation”
• Choose number or text
• Number = equal to Text = make sure you write ALL CAPS Change Custom error text to “STILL LOCKED”, you may add a clue here as well if you choose to.

Add a wide choice of primary sources, puzzles, videos and other information tied to the curriculum.

Here is a link to a variety of options to add to your digital breakout!
Even more options!

A few Samples:

https://goo.gl/CVAfZr

https://goo.gl/x3LDij

https://goo.gl/DF49aj

A Primary Source Birthday Present to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Teacher Librarian Days (#TLD2014)

Geek 2 is an organization nut and sometimes a bookmark list is just too hard to handle and manipulate when looking for resources. So I have looked for alternate options for students and myself!

I have found @Symbaloo to be a great visual reminder and bookmarking tool  to share with fellow colleagues AND with students. The design features and layout are easy to make your own, and can give visual clues to students when accessing preselected sites for research and online discovery.

As part of the Teaching With Primary Sources Teacher Librarian Days 2014, @TwoGeekyTeachers would like to share a primary source Symbaloo created in the last year to assist students with accessing quality primary sources and exemplary research materials and websites with our fellow learners young and more wise. Enjoy!

Primary Source Symbaloo

And PS.... Happy 10th Birthday #TLD2014!

Primary Source Tuesday: Part Two ~ Inquiry Infographics

Well we couldn't leave it at one, we had to create two more. These resources are based on the immensly successful Stripling Inquiry Model which is employed by the Teaching With Primary Sources Program at the Library of Congress ~ your national library!  Included below are a student worksheet in the form of an infographic, and a teacher/student reference sheet referring to key questions using inquiry in the classroom. You will notice that many of the questions directly tie to excellent classroom practice as well as National Common Core State Standards. (In particular the evidence-based learning items which is one of the main shifts in learning in the literacy standards.)

You can find more information on the Stripling Model of Inquiry at : http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/inquiry_learning/pdf/inquiry_learning.pdf

And the charts can be found at:

Teacher Resource Primary Source Inquiry Infographic:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/187094/PrimarySourceThinkChartTeacher/image.jpg

Student Resource Primary Source Inquiry infographic:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/187094/PrimarySourceThinkChart/image.jpg