A Beatrix Potter Summer
Summer’s a great time for kids to push away from the keyboard for a bit and engage in some decidedly non-digital activities, but that’s not to say our digital collections can’t be a great starting point. Beatrix Potter is one of the most popular...
Seasons, Science, and Stevenson: The Bedtime Connection
Sitting out on the porch of my childhood home in Pennsylvania on the longest day of the year when daylight lingers well past nine, I started to reminisce about teaching seasons to elementary students in Florida, whose idea of seasons was pretty much hurricane season...
Four Ways To Emphasize the Subject in Instructional Graphics
Sometimes we want to emphasize some part of an image we are using for instructional purposes. Here are four methods that we can use on instructional graphics and teach our students to use when they are creating informational materials. Adding a Highlight Color In a...
Annotating the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872. He was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. His work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and...
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