Welcome to the GFES Media Center!
Staff:
Mrs. Rhonda Haley, Media Specialist
Mrs. June Burch, Media Assistant
Vision:
The Georgian Forest Media Program will support the instructional focus of scholarly conversations and academic language through a robust instructional program. The instructional program includes but is not limited to: quarterly research projects, inquiry-based learning, reinforcing academic language used in the classroom, and building student capacity as successful 21st-century learners. In addition, the Georgian Forest media program encourages a lifelong love of literacy by building a diverse collection of literature that can both reflect the experiences of our scholars and open up new worlds to them.
GFES Online Library Catalog Link
Rourke e-books (get password from Media Center)
Digital Citizenship:
The CommonSense digital citizenship curriculum used by MCPS extends to all grades, K-5, to help scholars stay safe online and be aware of the impact of their online actions. Scholars in all grades have been learning how to stay safe on the Internet and how to protect their identity. There is also a separate branch of CommonSense designed for parents, dedicated to providing media reviews (books, movies, websites, and apps) and age appropriate guidelines.
Here is more information related to the lessons that scholars will complete this 2020-2021 school year:
Kindergarten
- Media Balance is Important English
- Pause for People English Spanish
- Safety in my Online Neighborhood English Spanish
- Pause and Think Online English
- How Technology Makes You Feel English Spanish
- Internet Traffic Light English Spanish
- We the Digital Citizens English
- That's Private English Spanish
- Putting a STOP to Online Meanness English Spanish
- This is Me English Spanish
- Our Digital Citizenship Pledge English Spanish
- The Power of Words English Spanish
- My Media Choices English Spanish
- Private and Personal Information English Spanish
- Keeping Games and Fun Friendly English Spanish
- A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities English Spanish
- You Won't Believe This! English Spanish
- Digital Friendships English Spanish
- Is it Cyberbullying? English Spanish
- Reading News Online English Spanish
CommonSense Media Blog:
Links to Online Resources
The following online resources are used by scholars not only in media, but in their classrooms as well! Did you know that students may access these resources at home? In order to access these resources, please see Mrs. Haley or Mrs. Burch in the media center for user names and passwords for at-home use!
- Capstone ebooks
- Culture Grams
- Encyclopedia Britannica Escolar (en espanol)
- Encyclopedia Britannica Global Reference Center
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
- Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest
- Explora Primary
- FactCite 1,2,3
- FactCite Lingo 1,2,3
- Gale in Context Elementary
- PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next
- SIRS Decades, Discoverer, Knowledge
- Encyclopedia Britannica Webster's Third International Dictionary
- Teachingbooks.net
- TrueFlix
- Watch and Learn Library
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