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New Activities for Presidents' Day!

Submitted by Nomad on Sat, 2012-02-18 16:17

We've made three new activities available in honor of Presidents' Day. Take some time over the next week to work through them and enjoy!

The Washington Monument is a 555-foot-tall obelisk in Washington, D.C. It is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. The monument is one of the world’s tallest stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk. An obelisk is a tall stone pillar with a square base and sides that taper to a point like a pyramid. Download here.

Here are some great Civil War projects including making your own telegraph learning some morse code or building an ironclad ship

Welcome to STEM Friday!

Submitted by Nomad on Thu, 2012-02-16 10:36

This week here at Nomad Press we’re hosting STEM Friday. It’s a chance for us to feature children’s books from all over the web that incorporate science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Leave your links and information in the comments and I’ll update throughout the day.

	From NC Teacher Stuff, Energy Island, which is the account of how a Danish island switched to all renewable sources of energy.
	Anastasia at Booktalking offers A Warmer World.
	Rourke Publishing looks at the field of early math education. The featured book is Nancy Kelly Allen's What's A Fraction? Looking for a fun and yummy way to teach the concept of fractions? Check this book out!: What's A Fraction?
	From SimplyScience, Zap! It's Electricity by Buffy Silverman.

Way back in October we posted about why STEM education is so important to our kids NOW. To reiterate, children are natural scientists and problem-solvers, so it’s our job to help nourish those natural tendencies and give them the kind of active and exploratory education that they need, whether we’re parents or teachers or both!

Gelett Burgess award goes to Amazing Africa

Submitted by Nomad on Thu, 2012-02-16 10:13

We are proud to announce that Amazing Africa Projects You Can Build Yourself has been awarded the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Honor. This title was written by Carla Mooney for Nomad Press and was selected as the best family-friendly book inspiring imagination and creativity in the category of Society and Culture/Multicultural-Activity.

The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Awards advisory council looks for books that entertain and teach with an energetic and creative approach. The Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression selects books that stimulate the child's imagination, as well as inspire them creatively. Advisory council members want to know a book will make an impact in a child's life by helping them grow: socially, emotionally, ethically, intellectually, and physically.

Communicating Kindness

Submitted by Nomad on Tue, 2012-02-14 09:40

This week is “Random Acts of Kindness (RAK)” Week. Don’t save that kindness for someone special on Valentine’s Day, do something kind for someone every day! What I like most about doing small acts of kindness is knowing that those small actions in turn produce more small actions, because the person to whom you act kindly is more apt to act kindly to others as well, and so on and so forth. The snowball effect of our actions is a simple lesson we can teach our children.

Begun in 1926 by Black scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson, Black History Month was originally celebrated as a weeklong event. In 1976, Congress expanded the observance to the entire month of February.