Thing 22: Create a Resource Guide

I was introduced to LibGuides this summer at a district PD.  I use it for easy access to the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum.  RCSD gave each of the librarians a login so I went with this tool.  I watched one of the webinars on how to use it and found it very user friendly.  Over the last year, some of my library lessons for 6th grade have centered around the historical fiction books they read - The Lightning Thief, Bud Not Buddy, and Dragonwings, so I decided to use that as a topic for my resource guide.  I found videos of author interviews, made bibliographies about book resources in my library on the historical topics connected to the stories,  and found other resources to post.  I used Teaching Books for finding the author links. 
I am going to send the link for the LibGuide to my 6th grade teachers and to all the elementary librarians in my district.  My students are now reading Bud Not Buddy and I plan to share this with them after the break.  I will do a follow-up blog on how it is working.  I use Google  Classroom with my 6th graders and will use this LibGuide as a link for resources in my lesson.  This is much easier than putting all these links into each assignment in Google Classroom.

Here is the link to my LibGuide -
http://libguides.rcsdk12.org/grade6