Library & Digital Resources

• New PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Articles
• Open House: Explore Robots and Physical Computing Devices
• First Amendment and Students
• New Ebooks
• New Titles in Learn360
• Test Your Children's Lit Knowledge
• Teach Computational Thinking with Literature

Direct link to the newsletter: https://www.smore.com/hqnam

Capstone continually adds new articles which keeps it fresh and engaging for our youngest researchers!

• 15 articles were added to PebbleGo in both English and Spanish.

• Look for these articles in the Biographies (Biografías) modules.

• 39 of the 54 new articles were added to PebbleGo Next.

• Find these articles in the Biographies, Science, and Social Studies modules.

• Articles about Entertainers, History Makers, and Landmarks, such as Betty White, Jessica Watkins, and the Great Barrier Reef, can be found in PebbleGo Next.

Share the full list with teachers at https://www.pebblego.com/news/54-new-pebblego-pebblego-next-articles-release-october

• Learn best practices and strategies to implement physical computing in classrooms

• Review computer science standards and how they apply to physical computing devices

• Explore what materials Heartland AEA has for checkout

When

Nov. 15, 2022

3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

No registration required - this is an open house format

Where

Heartland AEA Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston

Family Friendly!

Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and instructional coaches are invited to attend.

Kids are welcome! Who better to test our robots than students!

Information

Contact our Playground Facilitator, Marisa Dahl at mdahl@heartlandaea.org

Here are some resources from the American Library Association related to students rights and the First Amendment—just for your information.

Watching What Students Read in the School Library. 2015
https://chooseprivacyeveryday.org/watching-what-students-read-in-the-school-library/

Library Privacy Guidelines for Students in K-12 Schools
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/guidelines/students

Library Privacy Checklist for Students in K-12 Schools
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/checklists/students

New elementary ebooks about families and indigenous peoples were just added. Thanks to the teacher librarians who recommended titles. Go here and start on line 248 in the 2022-23 tab Annotations are included.

144 titles were added. You can preview here.

You can access Learn 360 through OneClick and AEA Scout.

Series topics:

• Vowels and consonant blends for beginning readers
• Business: negotiation, entrepreneurs, calculated risks, influencing others, etc.
• Two-minute history and famous people videos
• Grammar for elementary students

Match the date to the titles of these books celebrating milestone anniversaries this fall.

1947 / 1997 / 2002 / 1992 / 1992 / 1972 / 1990 / 1966 / 1947

1. A to Z Mysteries / Ron Roy
2. Book of Mean People / Toni Morrison
3. George and Martha / James Marshall
4. Goodnight Moon / Margaret Wise Brown
5. Hippos Go Berserk! / Sandra Boynton
6. Magic Tree House / Mary Pope Osborne
7. Rainbow Fish / Marcus Pfister
8. Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales /Jon Scieszka
9. White Snow, Bright Snow / Alvin Tresselt

To support your students in computer science, take a look at 240+ books and ebooks to introduce computational thinking and computer science concepts. Books are from the Heartland AEA library for checkout, ebooks are available at www.mackinvia.com (use the generic school username/password or OneClick).

Concepts:

• Algorithms and Programming
• Variables
• Computing systems
• Hardware and Software
• Impacts of computing
• Data analysis
• Inference and Models
• Safety, Law, Ethics
• Social Interactions
• Culture
• Cybersecurity
• Collection, Visualization and Transformation

1. 1997
2. 2022
3. 1972
4. 1947
5. 1966
6. 1990
7. 1992
8. 1992
9. 1947

Click here for the index to earlier issues.