News from the Curriculum Resource Center

The Vegetable Song (tweet @totallyeustus) from Si Bennett on Vimeo.

Here is a fun little ditty to encourage students to eat vegetables.  Pre-service teachers know that music always makes a topic more fun, and many classrooms are equipped to show short videos.  I might add that I also encourage COLLEGE students to eat their vegetables as well.  People can survive on bread and other grain products, but they shouldn’t!

Happy Reading about Vegetables, Kathy

Here is a prank for teachers to use with students.  I used to do this every year with my 10th graders and they always fell for it.  To be fair, they always pulled pranks on me so the fun was mutual.  Over the years I had invisible ink squirted on me, chalk imbedded in the erasers, chairs turned upside down, and wastebaskets hidden.  I always had a sense of humor about it and it was done in fun.  It is my opinion that teachers who don’t … Continue Reading

On Saturday the CRC participated in Literacy in the Park put on by The Martha Gesling Weber Reading Center.  Every spring they put on a fabulous literacy event that is attended by hundreds of local kids and their parents.  This year’s special guest was Nick Bruel, author/illustrator of the Bad Kitty and Poor Puppy books.  The CRC is always glad to have a booth at this event and offer kids the chance to operate the … Continue Reading

   If you are a fan of the ABC series Once Upon a Time you probably realize how exciting fairy tales can be.  Curious about the the original Snow White?  How about the other Snow White, the one who is sister to Rose Red?  Many talented authors have used the tales as a jumping off point for their own engaging interpretations.  One such story is Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels  which isn’t for the faint of heart.  Check out Tender Morsels and hundreds of other fairy tales and folktales in the CRC.  Browse … Continue Reading

We’re happy to announce that we have new, updated curriculum bags.   Our new bags are a delicious shade of chocolate brown with an orange logo and are ready to assist you when the teaching aids become unwieldy.

These bags checkout with your other materials and are to be returned to the CRC desk like all teaching aids.

    As a kid I loved to read biographies, and my only requirement was that it be about girls.  My public library had the series Childhood of Famous Americans, which in hindsight weren’t really biographies but fictionalized accounts of the childhoods of famous people.  I read every single title in the series, minus the ones about boys.  I remember Babe Didrikson:  Girl Athlete, Kate Douglas Wiggin; The Little Schoolteacher; Molly Pitcher; Girl Patriot.  My favorite was Susan Anthony; Girl Who Dared. 

     Susan and other women … Continue Reading

Are you excited for The Hunger Games? I know I am! But in anticipation, all of the copies of The Hunger Games are checked out, even on OhioLink. Instead, come and check out our display of other great novels that may ease your anxiousness until March 23. Unwind by Neal Shusterman and Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer are only some of the great titles you will see on display.

Enjoy and until March 23, “Happy Hunger Games! And … Continue Reading