An Annotated Bibliography of Children’s Literature with Environmental Themes – Adapted from a bibliography compiled by Nancy Andersen, Librarian OLCS, Erie, PA and Susan Miceli, Children’s Services Manager, ECPL, Erie, PA

Note: Several of the books listed here are …

Go Green is a project for students in middle and elementary school, which teaches them to understand and appreciate conservation of electricity through simple acts, like turning off lights, and growing plants in the classroom.

To be or not to be, that is your decision….

We can learn a lot from the way children learn – the shortest path to learning is interactive. This short article discusses paradigms and technologies that infuse interactivity in learning. Be it e-learning, classroom instruction or social learning, a learning modality must not reduce learners to bystanders. Learners deserve better, and we must get them to join the party.

I had an awful day today. The fifth graders filed in at 7:45. I was sitting at my desk, and the students walked right up to me and started asking for special favors. I was asked to solve disagreements even before class began! I found myself pleading for quiet. It set me off on a negative path for the whole day. Yelling and nagging never work, and I know that. For some reason, I was in a bad mood and had very little patience for the students.
I hate being that way. Can I recover? It’s not who I am, and it’s not who I want to be.

Have the students sit in the front of the room in a semi-circle. Show them a picture of a spinner that has 4 equal colors. Draw a tree diagram on the board that represents that spinner. The tree diagram should have 4 circles colored in with each color connected to a point without intersecting each other. Open it up for questions.

There are many definitions of dyslexia. One of them is: Dyslexia is a learning disability. This is far from the truth. It is in fact wrong. How can one say it is a learning disability when there are many things …

A school administrator relates what happened when he enforced the school policy against teachers “friending” students on Facebook. “Principal Jay Three” solicits input from colleagues on Administrators.Net about their school’s policies and practices related to Facebook, and the responses are …

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Dear Barbara,

I just finished your book and LOVED it, particularly the specific dialogue examples from yourself and other teachers.  I am a new substitute with no previous teaching experience.  So far …

It’s a story as old as stories: hitting the road. It’s the story that comes just before “A stranger came to town,” and “Boy meets girl.” Perhaps it’s the story that starts all others: leaving home, heading West, hitting the road, looking for the Northwest passage, going to where the wild things are