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LitLinks: 3 ways kids can tackle their climate anxiety
Have you heard about “climate anxiety”? Climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety, is distress about global warming...
LitLinks: A compare & contrast classification lesson with rule-breaking animals
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LitLinks: How to celebrate National Pie Day with stories and STEM!
Next week, January 23, is National Pie Day! So this week is the perfect time...
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Teachers often struggle to find time for science in busy classrooms. Nonfiction books can help—but...
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Walk outside on a winter day, and you might think that there is little to...
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