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African Artifacts: Back Story and Current Use - Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Our museum Educator Loan Collection includes African artifacts designed to spark students interest in the many cultures that populate the Af

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Creating Diverse Books for Leveled Reading: An Interview with Gaylia Taylor

Creating Diverse Books for Leveled Reading: An Interview with Gaylia Taylor

In this blog post, we interviewed Reading Recovery® teacher and Bebop Books author, Gaylia Taylor, about creating diverse books for leveled reading. Why is diversity important in books for students learning to read? How is diversity critical to your work as an author? Gaylia Taylor: Diversity is essential for students learning to read because they are for the first time stepping out of their…

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As an educator, I’ll be using today to share resources I’ve used in my classroom. I teach in a school that is 75-80% white, so these resources are directed at engaging a mostly white, teenage audience. Feel free to share! I don’t want to clog the BLM tag, so I’ll use EdResourcesForBLM if other teachers want to join in.

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The #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool National Week of Action starts today. Learn more about  the coalition and how to participate here.

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Calling all educators! We've got a new lesson plan now available on our website. Check out museum educator Marisa Shultz's blog post for all the details.

Image:  Headlines from many of the articles included in the primary source packet including “Nazi Reprisals Believed Doom of Jewish Life” from The Baltimore Sun, “Observer Describes Wrecking of Jewish Shops in Berlin: Outbreak Declared Worst Anti-Semitic Demonstration Ever Seen in Reich” from The Evening Star and “No Regret Voiced: Goebbels Declares that the Nation Followed Its ‘Healthy Instincts’” from The New York Times. With this lesson plan, students will have the opportunity to analyze these articles and more to try and answer the question: what did Americans know about Kristallnacht?

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Autism Information Highway

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Resource Suggestion

What’s That Bug?

We’ve all had that moment -- the one where we come across some weird-looking creepy crawly and ask the immortal question “What the heck is that?”.

To answer that question you can always head down to your nearest friendly library and look through one of those thick books on the local bug life. 

If you’re not into the old school way of bug identification, now you have somewhere you can go to where someone can help you figure it out! 

Created and run by Daniel Marlos (author of The Curious World of Bugs), you can search through previous posts and/or send in a question of your own.

What you might want to note about your buggy encounter for easier identification:

The more specific you are, the more specific they can be in turn, so if you’re able, snap a picture of the critter, make a drawing as soon after you saw it as possible, or write out a description. 

While it’s important to keep in mind internet safety, giving some general idea of where you saw the bug can be really useful too. It doesn’t have to be super detailed -- something like “South-central Saskatchewan, Canada” narrows things down a lot.

The location where you found it (on a wall, on the underbrush, on a tree, etc) can give quite a few clues as well.