News Spotlight: What We Forget When We Remember 9/11
More than 100 million Americans have been born since September 11, 2001 — meaning for a growing share of the country, 9/11 isn’t a memory but a history lesson. As…
Read Aloud: 14 Cows for America
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy, written in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez, is a picture book for grades 2-5 that tells the…
Wormly’s Back to School Sentence Practice
Kick off the new school year with Wormly’s Back to School Sentence Practice! Students in Kindergarten through 5th grade read a sentence with a missing word and use context clues…
Read Aloud: An Ode to Underwear
Ode to Underwear by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Abigail Burch, turns a taboo classroom topic into a laugh-out-loud read aloud for Pre-K through Grade 2. The rhyming picture book leans…
Proof by Underpants: The Ig Nobel Soil Science Story
This soil science for kids activity is part of our ongoing News Spotlight series, where real research, like this 2026 Ig Nobel Prize-winning citizen science project, gets turned into leveled…
Teacher’s Guide to the Jewish High Holidays
Bring the Jewish High Holidays into your classroom with reflection-centered activities, respectful discussion questions, and guidance for family guest visits — for K-5 educators.
Animal, Plant, or Fungi? A Life Science Classification Game
Classifying living things is one of the oldest puzzles in biology, and it’s still one of the trickiest for students to reason through, because appearances lie. A mushroom looks nothing…
Instant Lesson: How Do We Classify Living Things?
How do scientists decide whether something is an animal, a plant, or a fungus? This Instant Lesson walks K–5 students through the reasoning behind biological classification, with content that shifts…
