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Our Students Are Each Different

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Text sets

• Single topic – concept• Content is important in differentiation

• Wide-ranging collection of materials– Books, magazines– Poetry, nonfiction, fiction– Text that sparks interest!

• Reading more than one book to understand more deeply

• Easier books provide scaffolding for more difficult texts

Series to Knowhttp://www.gpaea.k12.ia.us – Select Media/Library

Finding That ContentTying Your Resources to Your Unit Planning

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Essential Questions

What is our part in protecting the fragile earth?

What are our contributions as responsible stewards of the earth?

TOMMS StreamingWeston Woods – •Planting a Rainbow•Open Wide – Tooth School Inside•Scrambled States of America – Talent Show

TOMMS StreamingHuman Relations Media –B Careful What U Txt

Bullfrog Films – Addicted to Plastic

step one

• Knows individual username/password for catalog

• accesses digital video from DE Streaming, Learn360 and now AEA content in TOMMs streaming

• orders media to be delivered to her building and knows the van delivery date

• knows to return print in 6 weeks & nonprint in 2 weeks or knows to Manage resources using AEA Media Catalog Menu

Details • Order by 9 A.M. on Thursday for Monday delivery• Checkout is 6 weeks for print / 2 weeks DVD

• Right now for Streaming Video and Online Databases

Examples today

• Amphibians• World War I• Reading Forward – Splendid Solution• Sally Walker – Written in Bone

interdisciplinary approacheveryone gains by sharing knowledge

• Differentiation – Freestyle / Freestyle Express

step two

• Knows to add 31 to individual username and uses same password as AEA Media catalog to login to three databases with Educator Features

• Atomic Learninghas or is going to take Assessment and uses Atomic Learning for PD for 21st century skills

• DE Streaminghas considered or is assigning student work in DE Streaming

• Learn360

www.gpaea.k12.ia.us Select Media Library

Atomic Learning – Login for Educator features

step three

• Knows District username/password for databases

• Knows Iowa AEA Online has 9 databases• Knows 3 databases have Educator

username as well as District username• Knows GPAEA also provides:– Rosen Teen Health and Wellness– Soundzabound (music clips)

• Uses GPAEA Media sitehttp://www.gpaea.k12.ia.us/programs--services/media-library.aspx

www.gpaea.k12.ia.us Select Media Library

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Becoming a Power Media User

Class is being offered for one credit – recertification or grad credit

Day in Central Lee and day in Ottumwa – need 10 to 12 participants

Thank you -

Kristin Steingreaber,GPAEA Media Specialist

mediacenter@gpaea.k12.ia.us

for questions on username/password

Professional Resources• Tomlinson, Carol Ann.

The Differentiated Classroom – Responding to the Needs of all Learners. ASCD, 1999.

• Book Links – Literature-Based Resources for the Curriculum, June 2010