Do you want to make a student or the whole class feel like a rock star?

Just get them some press.

Kids love to see themselves in the newspaper. I guess it strikes a basic need to be recognized, but it seems just about every child gets really excited when a reporter and photographer show up to the class.

Not to mention, learning to attract good press can also help teachers with fundraising efforts and other causes.

As a former news reporter, who covered the...

This story begins with two girls and an injured hawk.

Well~ it really begins with a cardboard box.

As the teacher of gifted at my school~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community-service based project~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter. The students decided to create collection boxes to place around the school~ and decorated those boxes with as much creativity and gusto as possible. After spending a few weeks on...

I have a resource where kids can learn some fun and informative facts about pumpkins~ just the thing for this time of year. I wanted to update that a record has again been broken for the biggest pumpkin!

October 2012:
Ron Wallace of Greene~ Rhode Island~ has grown a pumpkin that weighed in at 2010 pounds!The first pumpkin to ever weigh over a ton~ crushes the previous record set in 2001 by Chris Stevens. His pumpkin tipped the scales at 1820. 8 ounces. Wallace said that at...

Vevgeny Salinder~11~ recently went for a walk and has made an amazing discovery~ a well-preserved body of a 30~000 year old woolly mammoth! Found near a weather station in Taymyr~ northern Russia~ the adult male mammoths body is nearly intact~with bones~ fur and skin. Scientists worked for a week excavating the 6ft 6 inch mammoth from its resting place in the permafrost. Thought to be about 15 year of age~ the 1100 pound mammoth also has its rib cage~ mouth and tusk. It also has a hump on...