Remote Learning Activities for Librarians
With remote learning looking more and more likely, at least for some students, I wanted to put together a list of activities and resources that I have been using since the first lockdown. I hope you find them useful.
Authorfy has a huge bank of free online videos and resources available. These are aimed at several different age groups. Cannot recommend it enough.
Dungeons & Dragons
Believe it or not, playing D&D online can be much easier than in person. You can play it for free as long as you can hear each other's voices. Being in lockdown is what actually helped the programme blossom for our students in my opinion. If you'd like to learn more about how I run it online, just email me at lml@glenthorne.sutton.sch.uk.
A lengthier lesson on Fake News that generates more discussion compared to the one below which will work if you don't have a lot of time. This one takes around 40 minutes.
We are looking at Girl in Real Life as it's part of our Book Award, it's an amazing story about a girl named Eva who has every aspect of her life put online by her parents. You can read extracts from the novel from Usborne in the link above and conduct the following activities (also provided by Usborne):
Make a list of the pros and cons of Eva's life as a YouTube star, use evidence to support your ideas. Does Eva's lifestyle have more pros or cons?
Eva and her class take part in a 24 hour "unplugged" activity. Do you think you can go 24 hours without being online? What roles does technology play in our lives? Can you think of technology that is vital and technology that is a luxury? What would you do if you had to spend 24 hours screen-free?
Is it right for parents to film their children and put them on YouTube or other social media? Is it an invasion of privacy or harmless? Write your own list of rules for family vloggers.
Manga Club
One online activity that would work is Image Dice. To start, you need to make two paper cubes, instructions are here. Next, you write the names of Manga or Anime characters on each side of one dice and actions on the other dice. Then you roll them and give the group 3 minutes (or whatever) to draw what you've rolled. For example, you might roll "Naruto" on one dice and "Fighting a Toilet" on the other, anything to get them laughing and having fun.
Manga Quiz
Our Manga Club will be doing a quiz, you can find it here on Quizizz.
A quick lesson in which students read a newspaper page and try to find all of the misinformation red flags. Answers are provided on the link above.
Newsflash is a free online game designed for Year 6 and 7 students. It's goal is to help them understand the importance of reliable research and spotting misinformation.
Padlet can be used in a million different ways. In the link above I have provided step by step instructions on how to make a book review Padlet wall online.
Paper Airplane Book Review
To start, I'll get students to make their own paper airplane. If anyone is struggling, you can show them this video and do it together. Once they have their airplane made they can write their reviews. On the wings of the plane they can draw or describe some of the main characters. On the body of the plane they can write a short review, then they can decorate the plane however they wish. In a perfect world you could collect them and hang them up in the library but chances are the planes won't be brought back into the library. I ran this programme once in-person and the students loved it. We did do an activity at the end where students who wanted to threw their plane to another student so they could read the review aloud. This is a gamble of course and doesn't work in every setting.
Using The Art of Protest by De Nichols, we will be making our own protest posters, signs and symbols and discussing them, a great way to generate discussion and can be done at home with a pencil and paper.
Research Lesson using Empathy and Reading
This is a full lesson using books and responsible research skills to generate discussion around the refugee crisis.
This is a fun one and can take 20-30 minutes long. You are thinking of a book character, you give students a variety of clues, they get less points the more clues you give them.
I love this novel, it's another one that is up for our Book Award. Andersen Press has kindly published the first chapter to read which can be accessed by clicking on the link above. Then, once you've read it aloud to your students or they have read it, you can look at the discussion questions on pages 2-4 of this link, also provided by Andersen Press.
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