How to use SC DISCUS in your classroom!

SCDISCUS.org is a great website and tool to use in your classroom. It is a free resource for teachers and students to research with. In our ISTE standards, research is a key component as librarians for us to implement and to help teachers do this in their classroom. On the Discus website, you can find a page that I show to my teachers every year during our training on what SCDiscus is and how it can be used. 

Every year at the beginning of the year,  I do training with my teachers on the different areas of SCDISCUS especially DiscusKids 

Serving in an elementary school, it is important to teacher our students one step at a time through the different grade levels and to give them more information as they grow academically. I love STUDYSC on the website along with TumbleBooks. 

STUDYSC is a very important feature of this website in that my third grade students study south carolina and its history. I love it shows as they grow through the grades, the civil war and south carolina's role in this huge war. 

STUDYSC.org   Please check this out!  I learned alot about our state through this website. 

Here is a video I show every year from Youtube to my teachers. 

This explanation of the benefits of this website helps my teachers with all of their needs. As a Librarian, I was paying for TumbleBooks and Learn360 up until last year when both of these became free through the SC State Library and SCDISCUS.org.

As Librarians, we need to work together with our teachers to give them the best possible resources to help them become more successful in their lesson planning. I love these free activities and websites that were created and put all in one place for easier access. My students love the way  they can look up something for research and then talk about in on FLIPGRID.   

FLIPGRID is a creative tool to share with others different resources you have found and to video and talk about these.

SAFE search is also a bonus on this website for student access and safe student searching at school and at home.