Why I Picked It Up: One super popular session that Sherry and I present is Historical Fusions: Integrating ELA/R, Social Studies, and Technology. I picked up this book to help first and fourth grade teachers teach their students about Sam Houston. Why I Finished It: Truthfully, I learned a lot about Sam Houston’s early life […]
Social Studies
Book Review: Cowboy Car, by Jeanie Franz Ransom
Why I Picked It Up: This adorable little book, Cowboy Car, was received from a publisher (along with SPLATypus!), and I knew it would be mine because 1) it had a car on the front, and 2) that car was blue. My three-year-old son is currently obsessed with the Cars movie and he believes everything blue is his. […]
Book Review (and Giveaway!!): SPLATypus, by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Why I Picked It Up: This book just came to us – quite literally! It’s a brand new book, written by Children’s Choice Award Nominee Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, published on April 4th, and we were contacted by the publisher who sent us a copy of the book in exchange for our honest review. (We also get […]
Website Review: CyArk – Digital Heritage Preservation
WOW! Just WOW! Jessica brought this site to my attention recently, but she forgot to warn me I would get lost in it! CyArk stands for Cyber Archive. They are a non-profit organization with the mission of “using new technologies to create a free, 3D online library of the world’s cultural heritage sites before they […]
Book Review: Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, by Chris Barton
Why I Picked It Up: Woosh! was posted on a blog I follow. Unfortunately, I comb through about thirty blog posts a day and I don’t remember which one! However, it was posted and the cover caught my eye. So I tracked it down at our public library. Why I Finished It: As a mom of […]
Did You Know? Visualization with The New York Times
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” As educators, we know that to be true! It seems that our students remember much more of what we are teaching them if there is a powerful visual attached to it! Images can be used for many things in your classroom – initiating conversations and class discussions, sparking students’ […]
