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  • Shelby Public School
  • Shelby, NE
  • Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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The clack of the LEGO pieces as they snap together, dance across the table, and tell the story you want them to tell is a powerful call back to childhood for many of us. What we may not remember is using these versatile tools for creation and learning in school. Based on the 2019 American Association of School Libraries Standards Framework for Learners, the inclusion of LEGOS encompasses all six domains (inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage). Our students will not only demonstrate learning in core class areas assessed by state standards, they will also build critical thinking skills, problem solving strategies, collaborative techniques, growth mindset, and share their products with an authentic audience that provides feedback. Preschool through fifth grade have weekly library classes that LEGOs could potentially enrich as we study characters, setting, genre, sequence, plot, and more through collaboration across content areas. Our middle and high school students will benefit from library and classroom collaboration with social studies classes to recreate historical events, science classes to represent cell structures and processes, English classes to create stop motion green screen projects, exploration classes as they conduct inquiry learning, agriculture classes as they learn about life cycles, and so much more. The flexibility of the LEGO product makes it easy to customize for any class preschool through twelfth grade and would be a unique way to keep students connected with their school library all throughout their school experience. This project seeks more than just academic success. It seeks to grow our students as people: socially, emotionally, academically, and creatively. When we give our students the tools and empower them as problem-solving creators, there’s no telling what they can do.

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The clack of the LEGO pieces as they snap together, dance across the table, and tell the story you want them to tell is a powerful call back to childhood for many of us. What we may not remember is using these versatile tools for creation and learning in school. Based on the 2019 American Association of School Libraries Standards Framework for Learners, the inclusion of LEGOS encompasses all six domains (inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage). Our students will not only demonstrate learning in core class areas assessed by state standards, they will also build critical thinking skills, problem solving strategies, collaborative techniques, growth mindset, and share their products with an authentic audience that provides feedback. Preschool through fifth grade have weekly library classes that LEGOs could potentially enrich as we study characters, setting, genre, sequence, plot, and more through collaboration across content areas. Our middle and high school students will benefit from library and classroom collaboration with social studies classes to recreate historical events, science classes to represent cell structures and processes, English classes to create stop motion green screen projects, exploration classes as they conduct inquiry learning, agriculture classes as they learn about life cycles, and so much more. The flexibility of the LEGO product makes it easy to customize for any class preschool through twelfth grade and would be a unique way to keep students connected with their school library all throughout their school experience. This project seeks more than just academic success. It seeks to grow our students as people: socially, emotionally, academically, and creatively. When we give our students the tools and empower them as problem-solving creators, there’s no telling what they can do.

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