Dowell Elementary Media Center

Dowell Elementary Media Center
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Summer Reading

We are doing summer reading a little different this year. We are using Beanstack to track summer reading! The goal is 20 minutes a day! You will sign up for Beanstack through the public library. See this link for more information!
https://www.cobbsummerreading.com/

Please keep up with your library books over the summer! Read them and enjoy them, then return them to school when we come back!

Distance Learning Resources

If you have any issues with technology or logging in, email me at julie.pszczola@cobbk12.org for help!

Free E books

Thanks to MidAmerica Books for allowing us access to free E Books during our time away from school.
Click the links below to start reading!!
Elementary Digital Bookshelf Prek-8 ABDO Zoom Research Database

Thanks to Junior Library Guild for allowing us access to these free E Books during our time away from school.
Click the link below.
https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf

Download this file to see daily opportunities from Authors and Artists

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Mackin Via is our platform for online resources.
Here are directions for logging into Mackin Via from home.

Clever is a portal to allow you to access academic learning tools.
Follow these directions to log in.

Here is a great video from one of our fantastic Media Specialists in the county explaining how to log into Sora.

Sora is a great resource for ebooks and audio books.

http://bit.ly/soraintro

Click on the picture for written instructions.

Resources for READ 180 and System 44 students

Click the following links for directions to access READ 180 or System 44 at home

READ 180_System 44 Home Usage_SPANISH (3).docx
eBook_eReads on Ipads (3).docx
READ 180_System 44 Home Usage (3).docx

Log your Reading

Be sure to log your minutes on Biblionasium to be meet your goal for the month!

Click here for directions to access Mackin Via and Biblionasium from home.

Fifth Grade Multiple Resources

Thanksgiving Digital Breakout Links

Pixel portrait link

New Resource!!

Click on the picture for directions on how to use Sora!!

100th day snowballs

5th grade Career Research

http://www.bls.gov/k12/content/students/careers/career-exploration.htm

http://www.mynextmove.org/find/browse?c=0

https://www.cfnc.org/index.jsp

http://www.learnhowtobecome.org/

www.collegegrad.com

3rd grade Research Writing

Here are some links to Learnzillion videos to help with your research writing.

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7998

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8402

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/4829

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/4824

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/6761

5th Graders ChatterPix Projects

Fifth graders created Chatterpix to tell the information they learned during researching important people of the Civil War.

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fifth grade WWII activity

5th graders created a comic strip after researching a WWII historical figure in a collaborative lesson with Mrs. Pfeifer and Mrs. Pszczola.

focus on Resources

PASS- Cobb County School District's partnership with the Cobb County Public Library.
Every student can use their student number and the 4 digit month and day of their birthday to access all the resources of the Public Library.

Adobe Spark is fun and easy way to create pictures, posters, videos and all kinds of multi media products. Students can easily access through Mackin Via with their O365 log in.