activity programs

Provides nature activities for every day of the year, including making a snow gauge, hatching amphibian eggs, planting a butterfly garden, and creating a cloud in the kitchen.

Explores photography from simple pinhole cameras to cameras that use film. It explains how different parts of a camera work and shows how to process and develope your own photographs.

Easy-to-do activities will help you to answer questions such as how do ants find food, can worms make garbage disappear, what do plants need to grow, and more.

Experiments and other scientific activities demonstrate how crystals, plants, fruit flies, and other life forms grow.

Contains discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writings prompts, and literature response activities designed to help teachers use Newbery books in their curriculum.

A collection of activities designed to teach children ages eight to twelve about the importance of providing habitats for animals in urban areas, and emphasize the interrelationships of all living things.

A collection of 16 book programs, each offering a selection of activities, projects, recipes, poetry and games.

Offers advice to teachers on how to make reading meaningful to students through active engagement and socially interactive projects, featuring over fifty project ideas in the categories of entertainment, active participation, control and choice, and technology.

Explains the importance of preserving and protecting slow-moving water habitats and provides instructions for related projects and activities.

A practical guide that takes a teen-centered approach to implementing a successful book-club, and contains tips on developing teen leaders, sample discussion prompters, checklists and reproducible worksheets, and innovative ideas that will attract and retain teen readers.