Panels of 11-year-olds in schools around the country and the world selected the best answer from the explanations chosen as finalists from the more than 800 contest entries. The winning video is below.
Booktalking is one of the most effective way to get kids reading. Entice young readers to open a book … engage their interest … invite them into a story.
Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students, and we have to do it over and over again. We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of "literacies". An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy. I could go off in many directions on this, but for the purpose of this post I'm focusing strictly on the digital literacy of searching.
Social Studies: There are multiple resources available for free online which allow you to incorporate primary source information and media to any lesson.