Advertising: Fact or Opinion?
Will a new pair of sneakers really make you more popular? Are certain potato chips truly the best in the world? Being a wise consumer means learning to read between … Continue reading
Teacher Appreciation Week
Teachers work hard every week planning lessons, organizing subjects, helping kids, and giving care and love to their students. Teacher Appreciation Week gives students and their families an opportunity to … Continue reading
Money Around the World
If you’re off to visit a foreign country, chances are you’ll have to exchange your usual money for a different kid of currency. The bills and coins you use at … Continue reading
Ecobricks
Plastic pollution perils perfect planet! Finding ways to reduce plastic packaging is critical to keeping the earth’s ecosystem healthy. Unfortunately, plastic is in abundance—from product packaging to products themselves. Some … Continue reading
The Bunny Buddies and the Mysterious Message
Bunny buddies Buzz and Beeper need help to solve a puzzling springtime mystery and locate their baskets full of goodies. To help them along the trail you and your partner … Continue reading
Caves
How smart were Farmer Howe’s cows? Smart enough to change his future! Following their natural instincts these wise bovines found that the coolest spot in their field on a hot … Continue reading
World’s Largest Bee
With over 20,000 known species of bees in the world, how do scientists distinguish one from another? Is it color, shape, stinger, or wings? One way to identify bees is … Continue reading
Media Literacy: Points of View
According to Mr. Popcorn, he is the best snack in the world with wide appeal and many attractive qualities. Other snacks disagree, spouting their own theories about why they are … Continue reading
Women in Sports
Basketball, volleyball, baseball, tennis, golf, hockey, soccer—it’s hard to imagine any sporting competition where girls and women can’t compete in today’s world! But it wasn’t always welcoming for female athletes … Continue reading
Mountain to Monument
Imagine standing before an enormous mountain of granite in the Black Hills of South Dakota and calculating how to carve images of famous Americans into the stone. Gutzon Borglum, American … Continue reading