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Mental Development: From Birth to Old Age

Richard SPILSBURY | SERIES MADE SIMPLE, Apr 01, 2013

Gr 7–9—These titles discuss the milestones, challenges, and concerns people experience as their bodies change throughout their lives...

Top Tools for Upgrading Your Resume | Cool Tools

Richard Byrne, Mar 19, 2013

It’s spring, a time when students start looking for summer jobs or internships—and that requires some attention to their resumes and portfolios. In this month's "Cool Tools," Richard Byrne taps the best applications for creating an online showcase of your best work.

Alternative Search Tools: These options to Google will help students become better researchers

Richard Byrne, Feb 28, 2013

Cool Tools columnist Richard Byrne presents some free options for research that don’t require a login, along with a few quick tips to aid student searches.

Conservation

Richard SPILSBURY | FICTION, Feb 01, 2013

Gr 6 Up—These titles provide a global overview of environmentalism from different, often overlapping, perspectives...

Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards

Richard Byrne, Jan 31, 2013

Ready or not, here they come. At almost every school I visited this year, teachers asked me to address the Common Core (CC) standard in my workshops. Planning lessons with CC in mind presents a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. These sites are designed with the express purpose of helping plan lessons around Common Core.

New York City History for Kids

Richard Panchyk | NONFICTION, Oct 01, 2012

Gr 4-6–Taking an all-too-common approach, Panchyk largely confines his chronicle to the history of Manhattan–according the city’s four other boroughs only brief mentions–and aside from scattered statistical references covers nearly all of the last three decades on a single spread...

The Story of Silk

Richard Sobol | NONFICTION, Oct 01, 2012

Gr 3-6–When author/photographer Sobol returned to rural Thailand to share copies of The Life of Rice (Candlewick, 2010) with the people he wrote about, he was intrigued to find the villagers involved in silk production and silk weaving–a dry-season activity–and he immediately began collecting material for a new book...