Curriculum Connections - Fairbanks North Star Borough School

Curriculum Connections
Supporting Alaska State Standards
Volume 2: October 2014
K-8 Parent Math Night
An event for parents to learn more about the new
EnVision math and Go Math! curriculum is being
held on Tuesday, October 28th, from 6 – 8 pm at the
Admin. Center Board Room.
For flyer and other math resources please visit the
Curriculum Website:
http://www.k12northstar.org/departments/curricu
lum-department/studentparent-info/envision-mathsupport
ThINKing
About Art
2014 Art Conference
Hosted by:
Alaska Art Education
Association
Delightful Read-Aloud Resources
Fun! Free! Loaded with excellent stories with
activity guides for books such as Enemy Pie and
Stellaluna. Featuring authors like – Patricia Polacco,
William Steig, Mem Fox, Kevin Henkes and more.
Need we say more?
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Featuring:
Guest Artist – Ray Troll
Register at:
http://alaska-aaea.org/stateconference/register-online/
Professional Development
UAF Classes (registration through ESS)
Integrating Google Apps (K-12) – 10/2 – 10/25 – Instructor: Chris Carlson– 1 credit
Write from the Beginning (K-6) – 10/9 – 1/29 – Instructors: Patti Carrington (K-2), Stephanie Garroutte (2-3),
Karen Hancock (4-6) – 2 credits
Canvas: Your Online Classroom (6-12) – 10/9 – 10/30 - Instructor: Christina Hum – 1 credit
Differentiated Instruction for Secondary Teachers (7-12) – 10/15 – 11/19 – Instructor: Margaret Salisbury –
1 credit
Other Professional Development Opportunities
New Teachers – if you need to take the Alaska Studies and Multicultural Education course for
your certification, you can take the classes through the Alaska Staff Development Network
(ASDN)
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is an equal employment and educational opportunity institution
and a tobacco and nicotine-free learning and work environment.
A Communi K-12 from
Library Media Services
A new addition to the databases provided to FNSBSD
students and staff this year is Culturegrams. This product
includes four modules with “concise, reliable, and up-todate reports on more than 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all
13 Canadian provinces and territories.” There is the Kids
Edition with country information targeted at elementary;
the States Edition providing information on the United
States for K-12; the World Edition, which has country
information geared more for secondary; and the Provinces
Edition providing resources for K-12 about our neighbor
Canada.
Included for teachers is a 162 page Training Activities
download with ideas broken down into grades K-5, 6-8 and
9-12. A feature of the database well worth investigating is
the Graphs and Tables Tool, where students may build
their own comparison charts of data they select either
about one or multiple countries or states. The extensive
collections of videos, slideshows, interviews and recipes
are delightful adding considerably to the information about
each culture represented.
If you want to access this product from home, log in to the
district web page and then go to the LMS Homework Help
page for Culturegram login and password, which we are
required to keep behind the firewall. Enjoy!!
Homework Help
Word Clouds
Teaching Channel has visual warm-ups
to introduce academic vocabulary prior
to a unit study. Create a word cloud of
that vocabulary. Watch the video
(about a minute) and TRY IT! The
idea is not limited to science; social
studies, English, or even a foreign
language class can have fun with this
literacy strategy.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos
/reading-teachingstrategy?utm_campaign=digest&utm_med
ium=email&utm_source=digest
English Language
Learners (ELL) –
Teaching Academic
Language
Alaska Department of Education and
Early Development (DEED) has
provided The Academic Language
Training Module #1: Introduction to
Using the WIDA CAN DO
Descriptors. This is a resource for both
ELL and general education instructors.
http://www.livebinders.com/play/pla
y?id=1483042
http://www.k12northstar.org/departments/lms/homework-help
New & Returning Science Fair
Coordinators
October 16, 2014 from 5 – 7 pm
Admin. Center Board Room
Coordinators are invited to a workshop to get some tips and
resources to host an AMAZING school SCIENCE FAIR! There
will be door prizes, resources, freebies, food (Thank you Pioneer
Realty!), and lots of sharing.
Please come and learn about running your science fair and all
about the Interior District Science Fair! Contact Michelle Daml
for more information at: michelle.daml@k12northstar.org
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District – Curriculum Department
520 Fifth Ave., Fairbanks, AK 99701 ~ 452-2000 x 11474
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is an equal employment and educational opportunity institution
and a tobacco and nicotine-free learning and work environment.