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LitLinks: 5 ways to engage students with water

LitLinks: 5 ways to engage students with water

Nov 17, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER CHRISTY MIHALY I’m excited to share my new book, Barefoot Books WATER: A...

LitLinks: Underpants exposed! Exciting activities about covering our buns

LitLinks: Underpants exposed! Exciting activities about covering our buns

Nov 10, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER CHRISTINE VAN ZANDT Read about underpants From bloomers to boxers, everyone wears underwear!...

LitLinks: 5 easy ways to make scientists relatable for your students

LitLinks: 5 easy ways to make scientists relatable for your students

Nov 3, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER DR. LAURA GEHL Who Is a Scientist? is about showing students that scientists...

LitLinks: Watch kindness multiply! Easy math + ELA connections

LitLinks: Watch kindness multiply! Easy math + ELA connections

Oct 27, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER SARAH LYNN SCHEERGER What is altruism? How does it help us all? Altruism...

LitLinks: Easy way to practice students’ primary source interview skills

LitLinks: Easy way to practice students’ primary source interview skills

Oct 20, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER KATHRYN HULICK I once spoke to an expert on parallel universes while he...

LitLinks: Measure twice, cut once–measurement as a math and science skill

LitLinks: Measure twice, cut once–measurement as a math and science skill

Oct 13, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER LAURA PURDIE SALAS In my picture book If You Want to Knit Some...

LitLinks: Can smoke be useful? A research challenge for students

LitLinks: Can smoke be useful? A research challenge for students

Oct 6, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER HENRY HERZ Pre-reading I Am Smoke is a spare, lyrical, “autobiographical” account of...

LitLinks: Why Wonder Woman is great for teaching the senses

LitLinks: Why Wonder Woman is great for teaching the senses

Oct 3, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER KIRSTEN W. LARSON A special Sunday edition of the popular LitLinks blog series...

LitLinks: Easy STEM + ELA tasks about symbiotic relationships

LitLinks: Easy STEM + ELA tasks about symbiotic relationships

Sep 29, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER JENNIFER WARD S&S/Beach Lane Books, Sept. 2021Starred review in School Library Journal Symbiotic...

LitLinks: How biomimicry can spark students’ imagination

LitLinks: How biomimicry can spark students’ imagination

Sep 22, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER KRISTEN NORDSTROM Biomimicry is all around us How did a bird help transform...

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    • Beatrice and the Nightingale
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    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
    • QuickReads Fluency Library
    • Books for English language-learners
    • Writers write all kinds of things
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