Library Scavenger Hunt

Today we continued my unit on Important People in America. The students became "official investigators". We were going to be using multiple sources of information to fill our fact sheets. The students had their videos from the week before to use, the Chromebooks to search online resources and we were also going to use books.  I originally planned on going to the school library the day before to get books but I decided to change my lesson just a bit. I thought it would be a good idea to take all the students to the library and have them find and check out their own books about their person. To make this part of the lesson sound a little more appealing to the students I called it a library scavenger hunt. (Spoiler Alert: It was a hit!!)

After all of the students checked their books out we returned to the classroom and everyone began working diligently on the task at hand. I had to do a little bit of differentiating for some of the students. I provided some one-on-one attention with the lower level readers. Reading non-fiction texts is a relatively new concept to some of them so we had to do a mini lesson on finding and pulling out important pieces of information. Not all of the students finished so next week I will have to build in extra time in my lesson to finish up the fact sheets. I am amazed at how engaged everyone is in this unit. Social Studies is only done once a week so since last Thursday I have been asked daily, "Miss Stine when are we going to keep working on our people projects?". I can honestly say there is no better feeling than seeing such love for learning in the eyes of your students.