News from the Curriculum Resource Center

Barnhill, Kelly.  Do You Know Where Your Water Has Been?  Mankato, Minnesota:  Capstone Press.  ISBN:  978-1-4296-1995-0.

Who knew that water could be so funny?  Kelly Barnhill presents the water cycle to middle readers as a disgusting journey that will have kids reading fascinating facts aloud to each other.  The scrapbook style pages feature definitions, charts, photos and push-pin facts reminding students that they are drinking the same water once used by dinosaurs.  Do You Know Where Your Water Has Been?  The Disgusting Story Behind What You’re Drinking is part of the Sanitation Investigation series that … Continue Reading

Do you think you know women?  Take this quiz by the National Women’s History Project to see just how much you know about 15 notable women in U.S. history and then stop by the display in the CRC for a collection of titles on important women.  Other resources can be found at Smithsonian’s Educators’ page and the National Endowment for the Humanities Edsitement page.  Check out Rabble Rousers by Cheryl Harness at 920.72 H28r.

Truss, Lynne.  Twenty-Odd Ducks.  Illustrated by Bonnie Timmons.  New York: Putnam’s Sons. 2008.  ISBN: 9780399250583.

Lynne Truss delights junior grammarians with another companion book to Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Girl’s Like Spaghetti.  Twenty-Odd Ducks:  Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! demonstrates on each two page spread how the same words, when punctuated differently can have vastly different meanings.  For example, Truss, with comic images by Bonnie Timmons, points out that William brought an extra large pizza  and William brought an extra-large pizza involve differing amounts of the cheesy, gooey pie.  With the … Continue Reading

The National Association for Music Education is once again encouraging schools across the country to celebrate Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM). The highlight of MIOSM this year will take place on March 12, 2009 at 1:00 Eastern Standard Time when the World’s Largest Concert will take place. This concert is a sing-along and all schools are invited to participate. For more information about  MIOSM and the World’s Largest Concert, click on this link.  For Music education resources in the CRC, click here.