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 The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Dedication & Grand Opening November 22, 2002
Co-founded by Eric Carle, the renowned author and illustrator of more than 70 books printed in 30 languages, including the 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will present innovative exhibitions and programming that encourage inquiry, foster an appreciation for the visual arts and engage, delight and inspire children and families...
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Harry & Rosemary Wong
A Class Size of 500
An effective band teacher with a class size of 150 to 500 can quiet a group of students with noisemakers in their hands in seconds, and without speaking or showing stress. It's all procedures...
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Dr. Marvin Marshall
Suggestions For Motivation
Create curiosity
Curiosity is perhaps the greatest of all motivators. Here is the difference between American and Japanese styles of teaching: In Japanese schools, students are immediately introduced to a problem or challenge...
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Kathleen Carpenter, Editor in Chief
Update on
Operation Deep Freeze
and the e-mails from Antarctica Project
Approximately 665 classrooms with close to 13,000 students will be participating in the weekly e-mails from Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. Participating schools are scattered all across the United States, the UK, Canada, Italy, Uzbekistan, and 31 Department of Defense schools in Japan...
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Barbara Gruber
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Sue Gruber
Stress Relief for Teachers
The bell rings and your students head out the door at the end of the school day! You need to leave school in forty-five minutes to get to a dental appointment. That should be just enough time to change a bulletin board to go with the theme you plan to begin tomorrow. Just as you tear down the last piece of the bulletin board...
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Esmé Codell
November Postcard from Planet Esme
And boy oh boy, is this year's crop bountiful. Wait until you see the fall update of best new books for children at the Don't Miss page. As always, the titles recommended are teacher-tested, kid-approved, and I always love love love getting your e-mails about which ones were shared with the children you cherish and what the reactions were...
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Diane Tells His Name, Oglala Lakota
Teaching Children about Native Americans
How teachers can avoid promoting stereotypes
To begin, what do you think of when you think of the word "Indian"? What images immediately come into your mind? If you are like the majority of the population, you will think of dark skinned men on horses dressed in hides and feathers...
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Dr. Rob Reilly
Keyboarding: Some Assembly Required
The 'bad news' is that children in school need to get touch-typing skills as soon as they can. But schools do not teach this in the elementary school curriculum; and the schools that do, do not have any enrichment (e.g., time to practice the finger reaches)...
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Printables;
Turkey Glyph
from JenSue
and
Alphabet Book & Alphabet Chart
from Mary Miehl
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