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LitLinks: How to use your local watershed to investigate habitats

LitLinks: How to use your local watershed to investigate habitats

Sep 20, 2023

Planet Earth provides…habitats! This sample map shows part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, which includes...

LitLinks: More ways students can play with metaphor in their writing

LitLinks: More ways students can play with metaphor in their writing

Sep 13, 2023

In A Stone Is a Story, students follow a rock as it forms and transforms...

LitLinks: How to play with metaphor in nature writing

LitLinks: How to play with metaphor in nature writing

Sep 6, 2023

The emotions and sensations inspired by our awe-inspiring natural world are not always easy to...

LitLinks: Where does dust come from? Investigate its surprise journey

LitLinks: Where does dust come from? Investigate its surprise journey

Aug 30, 2023

A River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon tells the...

LitLinks: How to explain cancer to kids with kidlit

LitLinks: How to explain cancer to kids with kidlit

Aug 23, 2023

When Shayna Vincent was diagnosed with breast cancer, she couldn’t find a book that explained...

LitLinks: How to combine ecosystems and poetry for a winning lesson

LitLinks: How to combine ecosystems and poetry for a winning lesson

Aug 2, 2023

In GALÁPAGOS: ISLANDS OF CHANGE students follow food energy through many twists and turns in...

LitLinks: 4 cool ways to engage students with nonfiction kidlit

LitLinks: 4 cool ways to engage students with nonfiction kidlit

Jul 26, 2023

Did you catch my previous nonfiction kidlit post? In March of 2021, I posted a...

LitLinks: Combine #SEL and #STEM with these 3 easy lessons

LitLinks: Combine #SEL and #STEM with these 3 easy lessons

Jul 19, 2023

What is #SEL? The CASEL #SEL framework According to the Collaboration for Academic, Social and...

LitLinks: 3 easy animal lessons to excite kids about nature

LitLinks: 3 easy animal lessons to excite kids about nature

Jul 12, 2023

I love animals. I’ve written several books about animals, including sea otters, rhinos, black-footed ferrets,...

LitLinks: How to celebrate #PlasticFreeJuly and be a voice for change

LitLinks: How to celebrate #PlasticFreeJuly and be a voice for change

Jul 5, 2023

Ever since I wrote Plastic, Ahoy!, my news feed is jammed with ocean plastic information...

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  • Home
  • Books
    • Beatrice and the Nightingale
    • Sharks Unhooked: The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger
    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
    • 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
  • Author Visit Programs
    • FAQs
    • Calendar
  • Blog
  • Educator Resources
    • Teach the Hope
    • Earth Day Every Day newsletter archive
    • Teacher Guides
    • STEM + Literacy Activities
    • LitLinks
    • KidLit creators who make kids want to read
  • Writer Resources
    • Writing Classes
    • Manuscript or Proposal Critiques
    • How I got my start
  • Who is Patricia Newman?
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