Saving the American Chestnut: What Researchers Hoped in 2016 and Learned by 2026
A This Month News Spotlight Ideal For Middle School Life Science Reading Scientists have spent a century trying to save the American chestnut. Read what they hoped for in 2016,…
Visit the Haunted House Time Machine Lab if you Dare!
Preview ▶ Play Full Screen Opens in a new tab · full screen, no sidebar squeeze A Halloween time travel challenge for grades K-5 Students step into a haunted house…
“One” by Kathryn Otoshi: A Read-Aloud for Bullying Prevention Month
Kathryn Otoshi’s One uses colors and numbers to show young readers how one voice can inspire many to stand up to bullying. Dr. Katherine Schlatter reviews this Pre-K–2 read-aloud for…
World Statistics Day: What Can Footprints Tell us About Early Humans (Middle School Recommend Reading)
Curator’s note In the spirit of World Statistics Day, a United Nations observance held on October 20 and most recently marked in 2025, this article by Matthew Bennett and Sally…
Visit The Chestnut Stand: Word Problems for Grades 2–5!
A chestnut stand word problems game for grades 2-5 Students run a busy chestnut stand on market day and fill six customer orders. Each order is a short story, and…
Noun, Verb, or Adjective? Wormly’s 1st Sentence Builder!
Wormly’s Sentence Builder for Beginner through grade 5 Wormly’s Sentence Builder turns sentence practice into a spooky dig. Wormly has dug up a sentence and scrambled the words in the…
Close-Up with Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace was born in London in 1815, the only child of the poet Lord Byron, and was raised on an unusual education that combined languages, music, and needlework with…
Top 30 Spooky Words for Every Grade to Search this Halloween
A Halloween word search for every grade Wormly’s spooky word search hides Halloween words in a grid of letters, and children drag across the letters to find them. There are…