YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy's videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there's a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship. A topic obviously quite close to Google's heart.
Here are a few non-fiction texts that I would include in an intermediate grade classroom library. Some of these texts you might want to group together into a read aloud text set or as a set of inquiry texts that students would read together in small groups.
The CCBC has created bibliographies and booklists of recommended books on a wide range of themes and topics. We have organized them into the following categories...