the Library @ Blue Valley West

Blue Valley West High School Library, 9-12 public,
Librarians - Joe Geist @BVWGeist and Courtney Grimaldi @cdgrimaldi

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We LOVE research and a busy library! All day we are developing research questions with juniors and starting a group research paper in HELA 9! We squeezed 4 classes in during one block! Thanks to our teachers for being flexible! @bvlibraries

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We are so lucky to have @WeVideo accounts provided by our district! This week HBio and ELA9 are using WeVideo to demonstrate their learning of their content! @bvlibraries

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Our librarians have been having writing conferences with US History students for the last two weeks to help them improve their research, show comprehensive understanding of their topic and effectively use their arguments. We’ve really enjoyed the process! @bvlibraries

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Happy Monday! US History and Biology are in the library all day today! We are talking annotations, research, and finishing writing papers! It’s a great day to be a jaguar in the library!

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ELA 9 is in the library for the next couple of weeks using @WeVideo and green screens to film their Romeo and Juliet scenes! We love seeing their creativity!

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We’ve had a great week! ELA 9 has been in getting help with papers, ELA 10 in for genre rotations, biology in today learning how to find a scientific journal in the database!

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Thank you to our @BVWPTO for our new @makerbot Sketch 3D printer! It is much faster, quieter and makes way better prints for students projects! It’s already up and running making its first print! #3DPrinting @bvlibraries

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Thank you BVW PTO for the new book stands! It’s now easier to display books in a series with these fancy forward facing book displays! #bookshelves @bvlibraries

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Setting up 10 plus @breakoutEDU boxes for our Biology classes coming in next week for their team building and curriculum focused breakout! Looking forward to the collaboration. @bvlibraries

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Honors Algebra II is having their final gallery walk in the library today showcasing their Rollercoaster project and solving each others equations!

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Building Mario game boards with AP Physics today as we plan to gamify their classroom! @bvlibraries

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Last week before finals! AP Physics, HELA 10, Spanish, AP World History, computer graphics, AVID, ELA 9, HELA 9, AP Lit, and Honors Algebra are all in the library this week for different projects to finish the year!

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Junior ELA classes have been in all week and will be in for the rest of the semester. They are working on a stair stepped research paper and getting individual writing conferences with our librarians each day they are in the library!

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ELA 11 is in finishing research on their American Dream essays. After break they start their thesis and introductions. ELA 12 is writing annotated bibliographies, and another class is working on a maker project! @bvlibraries

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Fun day in the library today filled with lots of research! ELA 10, 11, and 12 in the library every hour today all working on different research papers! We are enjoying the process of information gathering! #digitalliteracy #research @bvlibraries

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Mr. Geist is building bridges and connecting dots for our seniors who are finishing In Cold Blood and researching media bias for a person of interest! Thanks Mr. Geist! @bvlibraries #research @BVWGeist

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ELA 12 students are in today doing their ‘person of interest’ and topic selection for their upcoming research paper. Librarians curated resources for students to browse and select a topic after students read their novel. Research begins next week! @bvlibraries #research

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AP Literature students have been in this week for their Literary Analysis Research Paper. They are practicing lots of digital literacy skills such as finding peer reviewed articles, using Boolean searching, and limiting to full text. @bvlibraries #digitalliteracy

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Lots of books checked out means lots of books coming back in! Thank goodness we have a student aide to help otherwise these would have to wait on a cart to be reshelved! #booksbooksbooks

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There’s new Manga in the BVW library! Stop in today to check out the new selection!
#freedomtoread