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Professional Library Resources

Library Line  Professional Library ·          Taking courses? ·          Looking to innovate within your classroom? ·          Seeking research studies to support your work? ·          Keeping up with best practices? The resources of the professional library can assist you. To access the professional library visit the DATABASE PORTAL of your school library on the web. Enter the password:  hhkids Scroll through the alphabetical list to:  Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) This database contains 470 full-text journals, 300 peer-reviewed journals, over 750 abstracted journals and 530 peer-reviewed abstracted journals and 230 educational reports. Is your article not available full-text?  Email the citation to your school librarian with your request for interlibrary loan services. Looking for worksheets, lesson ideas or other classroom materials? Check out the Staff Resources page off your school library website. In addition to articles f

Human Body

Articles on the Human body and it's workings: Learning How the Bones and Muscles Work Together https://newsela.com/read/lib-anatomy-bones-muscles/id/37415/ All the Cells in the Human Body https://newsela.com/read/lib-human-cell-types/id/36621 How do Voices Work? https://newsela.com/read/elem-sci-body-voice/id/28484 Students Involved in Group Learning Showed Similar Brain Wave Patterns https://newsela.com/read/working-together-brain-waves/id/30055

US Government

A look at a variety of roles and influences on our government and democracy today with a retrospective of the 19th century Industrial age thrown in for comparison. How Corporations Influence the Government https://newsela.com/read/lib-corporate-america-lobbying/id/37410/ How Government Works:  the purposes of Government https://newsela.com/read/elem-govt-purposes/id/29108# How Government Works:  the President's Job https://newsela.com/read/elem-govt-president-job/id/28727 How do US Taxes Work? https://newsela.com/read/lib-taxes-economics/id/30881

Oral History

Look for an extra assignment?  Have an interest in oral history, storytelling and interviewing, or preservation and archiving of social history? Consider: The Great Thanksgiving Listen https://edex.adobe.com/great- thanksgiving-listen? trackingid=WKRCJH2D&mv=email as an opportunity for students to interview older relatives during the Thanksgiving holiday, create a video story and then share it with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.  Please note:  your students must be 13 years of age and have parental consent to participate.

Staff Resources and Library Line Blog

Introducing the Library Staff Resources Page and Library Line Blog Staff have many resources available to them to facilitate teaching and learning.  Now you can find these resources and passwords on the  BMMS Library page    under Staff Resources  in the  left hand navigation  window.  You must   be logged into your school google account to see the website. In addition, looking for that email the library sent about ??? Look no further than the  Library Line blog  located on the staff resources page.