Library & Digital Resources

• New Videos in Learn 360
• 1,000,000 Books--Again!
• Fact-Checking Tools
• TeachingBooks and 2022-23 IASL Award Books
• 76 New PebbleGo Next Articles
• Bikes in the Library
• 9-12 Civics and Government Iowa Standards
• Intellectual Freedom Articles
  

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This spreadsheet includes grade level, copyright year, and annotations for the 300 videos added in the last 30 days. FYI. There's a 2021 video about Vice President Harris from History Kids--Kamala Harris: The First Female Vice President.

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Every few years the Heartland AEA library quietly celebrates another 1,000,000 children's books checked out to central Iowa schools. Well, we wanted to celebrate out loud this year!

Last semester we checked out the 1 millionth title since the 2012 fall semester. It took us a little longer to reach that benchmark because of COVID.

These are fiction and nonfiction books; chapter books; beginning readers; books about friendship; books for research reports; books for leisure reading; poetry books; books with funny stories; books with big ideas; books about famous people; books about people just like me; books about parts of the world that are different from Iowa; books about scientists, inventors, explorers; books about animals and science; books about people and places from long ago; books about space; books written in different languages, and more.

If you would like to join the book rotation program and receive a box of fiction and nonfiction books every six weeks, click here.

If you need books to support a specific unit, call the Heartland AEA library to request a theme order, and tell us about the unit and reading and interest levels of your students.

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This first article includes some links to teach about misinformation and disinformation. You may already be familiar with some of fact-checking tools in the 18-minute video “Media Literacy Masterclass with MediaWise Campus Correspondents." Deepware was a new one for me. Take a critical look on your own and note the Poynter affiliation and that Meta was a partner in some of the videos.

Goldfinch Award (389 resources)

Iowa Children's Choice Award Books (407 resources)

Iowa Teen Award Books (261 resources)

Iowa High School Award Books (270 resources)

Six of the new articles are in social studies about a variety of topics like Celebrating Diversity, War and Civil Conflicts, and the Navajo Code Talkers.

The science module has 15 new articles with a focus on computer science, where users can read in-depth articles about Robots, Networks, and Computers and Data, Algorithms and Programming.

The remaining 55 articles are all biographies. There are articles about award-winning authors, athletes, politicians, activists and many more.

Biographies

Amanda Gorman

Beyoncé

Catherine Cortez Masto

Celia Cruz

Chester Nez

Chief Joseph

Coretta Scott King

Deb Haaland

Diane Nash

Dwayne Johnson

Edmonia Lewis

Ella Baker

Faith Spotted Eagle

Frederick Douglass

Garrett Morgan

Henrietta Lacks

Henry Cisneros

Jacoby Ellsbury

Jesse Owens

John Herrington

Julissa Arce

Katherine Johnson

Kwame Alexander

LeBron James

Lewis Latimer

Lonnie Johnson

Louis Armstrong

Louise Erdrich

Lynda Carter

Mamie Johnson

Maria Espinosa

Matthew Henson

Medgar Evers

Meghan Markle

Melonie Diaz

Michelle Obama

Muhammad Ali

Nadia Murad

Naomi Osaka

Rafael Nadal

Ralph Bunche

Rita Williams-Garcia

Roberto Clemente

Rosalia

Ruby Bridges

Russell Wilson

Shakira

Sheryl Swoopes

Shirley Chisholm

Stephen Curry

Sue Bird

Suzan Shown Harjo

Tammy Duckworth

Tina Thompson

William Carlos Williams

Science

Algorithms and Programming

Computers and Data

Computers and Society

Computing Systems

Drones

Machine Learning Engineers

Mobile App Developers

Networks

Robots

Self-Driving Cars

Simple Machines

Smart Devices

Smartphones

Software Engineers

Web Developers

Social Studies

Celebrating Diversity

Eiffel Tower

Machu Picchu

Roman Colosseum

War and Civil Conflicts

Navajo Code Talkers

To help support the K-12 Iowa Core in Social Studies standards, here is a link to follow the Iowa legislature https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation

Content Anchor Standards:

• Analyze Civic and Political Institutions
• Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
• Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

On January 11 the State Library of Iowa, Iowa Library Association, and Iowa Association of School Librarians presented a webinar on intellectual freedom for school and public librarians. Here are the resources they shared. Here's another resource from ALA listing court cases that we found after the list was shared on the 11th.

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