What’s Happening: Cave art by women
Did you hear that the first human artists were mostly women? Maybe somebody should tell The Croods this…
The Institute for Humane Education is such a wonderful resource. Right now they are offering 12 resources for teaching about food waste, which is such an important yet unaddressed issue in our country.
Have you heard about Mini Missions from Kellogg’s? You sign up to do these missions and become eligible to win two free books from Scholastic. Could be worth checking out!
Some of my favorite characters from Grimm read their favorite fairy tales at Wordstock last week. Check it out!
Purpose Fairy is offering 15 ways to change your thoughts to change your life.
Want to raise a current events savvy child? Here are 21 resources to help you do that from Geek Mom. Current events are such a neglected topic in school—at least in my experience. I had two teachers out of dozens who had us do CE projects and they were the most interesting we ever did. One idea is to do a bulletin board where all the kids research and take turns posting news clippings each week; my sixth grade teacher had us do that, plus daily news reports. My science teacher in the 9th grade had us do science CE projects, too.
The Middle Finger Project (yes, content warning!) has an absolutely awesome post about what people on the Internet are afraid to say. Think about everything you ever wanted to complain about Facebook, Twitter and people fighting on the Internet and you might be able to come up with this list, too.
Reel Girl has a great post about what’s wrong with the cover of Epic, which was the second-best animated film of the year (language warning).
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