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On April 28th (National Superhero Day)
we launched Sidekick
​for our favorite Superheroes...teachers!
What is SIDEKICK?  
Officially, a SIDEKICK is one who spends a significant amount of time as the partner of a Superhero.  Teachers and our TLC participants are our Superheroes, so we created SIDEKICK just for you!

Sidekick is a resource for TLC participants and classroom teachers.  As we implement professional development sessions, we want to be sure you have resources to use in the classroom.  Sidekick is a database of lessons and resources that you can use in the classroom, share with colleagues or use for grade level conversations.
​CLICK HERE FOR THE SUPER SECRET ENTRANCE
TO THE SIDEKICK WEBSITE...
WHICH ISN'T REALLY SUPER SECRET!
SIDEKICK.TEACHINGLEARNINGCOLLABORATIVE.ORG
Are you looking for some Superhero ways to use Sidekick?
Choose your favorite Superhero and try that lesson! 

​Get your Spidey teacher senses tingling with the "STICKING TOGETHER” lesson. Students make observations about how objects stick based on their environment. 
​“A Day in the Life of Mighty Mouse” is a SUPER way to look at plant and animal structures/functions needed for survival and flow of energy within a system.
“BATS”…need we say more?   Students will listen to a story about Echo the Bat to learn about bats, their body structure, how they use echolocation, foods they eat and how/why they migrate.   
“TEN FLASHing FIREFLIES” (see what we did there?)  Students listen to the story Ten Flashing Fireflies and as they read they will respond about what they see, combinations of numbers and questions about more and less. 
​Check out the Hulk sized “Handful of Peanuts”  activity for K-2. Students work to investigate how many of a given object they can grab and work to count and represent this quantity with a model and written number.   It would be pretty neat to see how the Hulk would do at this one!