Page 7 Greenwood Elementary students become creators in school media center In the media center at Greenwood Elementary, students are becoming engaged with more than just books. Students can not only read about scientists and explore the Everglades. Now Greenwood students have the opportunity to become scientists and engineers within the media center. Students are enjoying stations that focus on STEM and Makerspace. In the beginning, students created bookmarks to use in with their library books. The Greenwood APT fulfilled a grant to supply the library with Legos and the students had the opportunity to use the Legos for free build and use their creativity. Now students are taking pictures they have been given and engaging in creativity by using Lego STEM cards. Students can work together or alone to build the task on the Lego Stem cards. Students have also created reading buddies to take home and to use to remind them to read. Some students created their reading buddies from characters from their favorite books. Others wrote a short story to put in the hands of their reading buddies. Sixth grade students are using 3D pens to draw the clouds at different heights and to take back to the classrooms after studying their unit on clouds. Students in grades three and four are creating seasonal quilts with the nonfiction call numbers. Some quilts focus on the nonfiction section and helping the students know where to find the different subjects within the Dewey Decimal system and others, for the younger students, focus on all areas of the library section. The quilts will aid in the students knowing where to find their books in the library. Chromebooks and desktops are being used to read books on the Epic Website in addition to taking virtual field trips to explore places and events that they are studying in their classrooms. Epic allows the students to read and or listen to virtual books. Students also can watch the how-to videos provided by epic that spark creativity. Students in grades 1-6 will also begin using the robots funded by the School Foundation over the next several months. The Ozobots will be used to create paths that go along with a story as well as plotting points on the X and Y axis. Dash and Dot will be used to explore and tell stories to share. The students will use the MakeyMakey to work on money when they study money in the classroom. Students will also use Osmo to code, create words, and solve math problems all while in the library. The library is not your typical place to just go and receive a book to read, but to build creativity and imagination.
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