The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

February 29, 2012

School Library Journal: Gr 5 – 9 — Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Houghton, 1984) has taken on …

Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples

February 28, 2012

BookList: Books for Youth, Older Readers: /*STARRED REVIEW*/ Gr. 9-12. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989), with its wholly realized …

February 28, 2012

A gym class at West Heath School for Young Ladies, 1 Ham Common. It became a school in c.1879 under …

February 27, 2012

Artists Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones describe their War Horse puppet as an “emotional prosthesis.”* It takes three puppeteers working …

February 26, 2012

Paint like Jackson Pollock As soon as you visit this site you won’t be able to resist slopping paint like Jack …

February 25, 2012

In 2003 Ms. Baker, 50-year old, head librarian of Basra’s Central Library worried when Iraqi government officials moved their offices …

February 23, 2012

Visual Literacy Prezi Educator Andrea Hunt uses Prezi to introduce junior/intermediate/senior students to visual literacy and its importance to our …

February 23, 2012

BBC Titanic Video Clip Duration: 01:41 This subject may be of interest to you and your students with the 100th anniversary of the …

February 22, 2012

Google Science Fair Teachers’ Page This year’s deadline for Google’s 2012 online science fair is April 1st. Young people from …