Product Description: Between 1942 and the end of 1944, 1514 flight nurses were trained at Bowman Field, Louisville, KY. 18 Medical Air Evacuation Squadrons were formed that transported 1,176,048 sick and wounded soldiers, sailors and Marines. These flight nurses were pioneers in the intensive care of patients in flight in Europe, the Pacific, China and Burma using the C-47, C-46 and C-54s as flying hospitals from battle aid station to inter-theatre and inter-continental flights back to the U...read more

Product Description: Looking for a go-to storytime resource devoted to fairy tales? Fairy Tale Fun delivers storytime gold to any children s programming line-up with ready-to-use poems, stories, unique games, treasure hunts, and word searches. Offering variety for children 3-10 years old, these fairy tale activities can be used for one specific age group or different activities can be shared between cross-sections of age groups...read more

Product Description: Enhance showings of classic kids films with fun learning activities for readers/viewers from ages 7 to 12.• Notes on over 30 classic children's films, in alphabetical order by film title • Original post-viewing activities to enhance understanding• Programming for kids ages 7-12, in grades 2-7• A gameboard for team competitio...read more

Product Description: This new book by Nancy Polette offers 49 short biographical readers theatre plays consisting of three performers discussing the same life, but with slightly different information. It requires students to use their critical thinking, listening, and research skills to determine which of the three tales is true...read more

Product Description: Using the approach based on a Harvard study that found when the whole body is involved, the number of brain cells brought to the learning activity doubles, the author offers over one hundred kinesthetic activities. These are organized by content area and include number of players, objective and procedures, and nonfiction reading suggestions...read more

Product Description: This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades will be useful to teachers, librarians and staff development personnel. It will be of particular interest to teachers of the gifted. Each thinking skill is explained in a full-page reproducible format followed by a page offering booktalks to be used to introduce favorite picture books that can be used to teach that skill to young children and two pages of reproducible activities for the children to practice the newly learned skill...read more

Product Description: Using shaggy dog stories based on classic literature, the Polettes address common spelling and grammatical errors and the ways in which children can be taught to read critically to recognize them. Stories such as Rapunzel, Alice, The Hare and the Tortoise, and King Arthur, purposely embedded with common errors, have been pretested in teacher workshops given by Nancy Polette and in Dr...read more

Product Description: Did Molly Pitcher hide in a well when bullets flew during the Battle of Monmouth? Could Sacagawea, the interpreter for Lewis and Clark, speak English? What did Jacqueline Cochran, Bessie Coleman, and Amelia Earhart have in common? What do Sarah Emma Edmonds and Frank Thompson have in common? Did critics of Susan B Anthony drag her through the streets because she supported women's rights? Who was a world famous photographer who captured on film the bombing of Moscow by the Germans, recorded the sinking of a torpedoed ship, uprisings in India, the Korean War, and race riots in South Africa? What freed slave passed Jefferson Davis' secret military information to the Yankees during the Civil War? What determined Hispanic woman spoke out to improve the living and working conditions of migrant workers? Because of her efforts, who helped to establish 12 national underwater parks...read more

Product Description: A book that every children's librarian will love, this series of games and quizzes (cryptograms, word searches, scavenger hunts, plays, and much more) will encourage reading, reading competitions and games. Covering all types of children's literature from Mother Goose to the Classics to the Award winners, this is a hands-on book made up of reproducible game and quiz pages that will be easily and often used in school and public library programming...read more

Offers ideas for improving abstract thinking skills using fairy tales and fantasy and includes exercises and activity suggestions for classroom use.

An introduction to the life of the young seventeenth-century Indian woman who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and astronaut.