An Interview with Author Eliot Schrefer!

Be sure to check out my interview with Eliot Schrefer on my interdisciplinary blog.  There’s even a contest to win a copy of RESCUED!  Eliot and I discuss writing, research, our mutual love of the intersection of science and writing, and science in YA books……

They grew up together. Now they have to escape together. Raja has been raised in captivity. Not behind the bars of a zoo, but within the confines of an American home. He was stolen when he was youn…

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Why English and Science?

Wild Delight is a blog focused on ways that middle school and high school English teachers can use nature to inspire their students as readers and writers. Nature-deficit disorder is a crisis in ed…

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• 10 minute S’mores Nachos Recipe

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• New NOVA Film Focuses On Efforts To Create Wildlife Corridors | Here & Now

  Wildlife corridors: ingenious or unrealistic? NOVA Film Focuses On Efforts To Create Wildlife Corridors https://t.co/dHxfOdUI5H

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• Mrs. Allison George on Twitter: "@mwilsonsayres @realscientists It was the best! I try to use free class time to show my students different things when I can. So much fun!"

  The amount of personal time educators spend being a #GatewayToScience is amazing. https://t.co/9HtoQGPrQz

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• Beyond LiteracyLink: Notice, Wander, Wonder

  It’s #springtime-notice/wander/wonder/write. https://t.co/81vhncpcCO #amwriting #poetry #teachwriting #NoticePoems https://t.co/Kpa0YPurM2

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• Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM 

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• The remarkably different answers men and women give when asked who’s the smartest in the class – The Washington Post

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• XY Bias: How Male Biology Students See Their Female Peers – The Atlantic

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• Why Women In STEM Need To Become The New Normal — Femsplain

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• When Male Scientists Are Described As If They Were Women

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• Engineering survival.Prospect of using GMOs for s

  Engineering survival.
  Prospect of using GMOs for species conservation.
  Great take: https://t.co/5anKkx0Zda #conservation by @hillaryrosner

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• Maria Sibylla Merian: artist whose passion for insects changed science | @GrrlScientist — Medium

  “Maria Sibylla Merian: artist whose passion for insects changed science | @GrrlScientist” @GrrlScientist https://t.co/e8UVYRVJA2

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• 100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking –

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Some Poems to Read in Honor of Earth Day

Check out my newest post on Wild Delight, my blog focused on interdisciplinary work between science and English class.

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Happy Earth Day!  What a great time to share some nature poetry with students, seeing as it is National Poetry Month, too. Below are a few of my favorite nature poems to share with students.

Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight by Jane Hirshfield

This is a new favorite of mine because I’ve spent the last few months researching coyotes and red foxes.  Most recently, I’ve been observing a litter of fox kits near my home and it’s my favorite part of every day.  This poem captures a lot of my feelings as I watch the kits run and play with each other, ever vigilant and alert. Students could read this poem and then talk about the species they’ve noticed in their own neighborhoods.

Photo of my local foxes

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is my favorite poet.  I can sit down and read her poems any time and they make me…

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Book Review: Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life by Richard Louv

Below you will find a book review posted on my new blog, Wild Delight.  Wild Delight is my new blog devoted to helping English teachers incorporate nature into their lessons and classrooms.  The blog will include lesson plan ideas, book reviews, author interviews, and much more.  Be sure to subscribe!

Richard Louv is credited with coining the term “nature deficit disorder” and the world became familiar with it in his bestselling book Last Child in the Woods.  This month, Louv release…

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• 2016 Conference on English Leadership Call for Proposals

  Lit Leaders: I just submitted my #CEL16 proposal & so can you! Due tonight! https://t.co/6woOIBPffu #CELChat https://t.co/5VncCcAQdJ

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• Twitter Video

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• Drop Everything and Play: Creating Opportunities for Creativity | Moving Writers

  Drop everything & PLAY with writing! — new #movingwriters post from a new #movingwriters contributor, @MGriesinger https://t.co/heC6msCXPX

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• Recommendations for Science-Focused Additions to a Middle School Reading List

  #NSTA Blog post: Recommendations for Science-Focused Additions to a Middle School Reading List https://t.co/2NmFfgaDKw

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• http://humaneeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Literary-Studies-Curriculum-ILP-by-Molly-Hall.pdf

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• Curriculum | Common Ground

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• Learning in Place: Speaking in Place: High School Environmental Literature

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• Syllabus | End of Nature | Literature | MIT OpenCourseWare

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• Know Your Stuff: Why Content Knowledge Matters for Teachers | Empathic Teacher

  My “essay” about why, to establish credibility with Ss and scaffold effectively, we need content knowledge: https://t.co/NoOSxKswJl

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• Join Me at #UNHLit16 This Summer! | My So-Called Literacy Life

  Join Me at #UNHLit16 This Summer! https://t.co/72GWWLwsvF #engchat #edchat

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• Why Hope Remains for Saving the World’s Largest Gorillas

  To save world’s largest primate, we may need a “gorilla-free phone” movemnt akin to dolphin-free tuna https://t.co/gssu9kCbWG v @LiveScience

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• Citizen science helps with big data: Bob McDonald – Technology & Science – CBC News

  Citizen science helps with big data: Bob McDonald – https://t.co/gUyZm7frEB #GoogleAlerts

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• Want to read like ? Yeah, so do we. https://t.co/

  Want to read like @Lin_Manuel? Yeah, so do we. https://t.co/QGtFjITbHn https://t.co/nrtNWY4x6z

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• The Last Word On Nothing | Flying forest

  Forests move by grace of corvids. Come for science & writing, stay for Sarah’s pictures. https://t.co/cCwK4UNUoI https://t.co/7LffafuP67

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• Who Decides If You’re Too Young To Marry? : NPR

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• The Adolescent Brain: Leaving Childhood Behind | Edutopia

  The Adolescent Brain: Leaving Childhood Behind by @desautels_phd: https://t.co/1oM5J7xGla

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• Cal on Twitter: "Using calculus to find the rate at which Lafayette raps. @Lin_Manuel @DaveedDiggs @leslieodomjr @HamiltonMusical https://t.co/ZX0fzWlTcE"

  Halp @VAMNit the Internet is using numbers as letters again…(greatjob) https://t.co/6Q0wIZgzOC

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• New Jersey Department of Education | NJDOE District Broadcasts

  New Jersey Department of Education’s Council for Teaching and Learning https://t.co/EchoNe9sv3 Your Superintendent Knows this. Do you? #n…

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• Elisa V. on Twitter: "@Lin_Manuel Louis sachar shoutout! The Wayside stories books are so clever and underrated!"

  Cosign. The GREATEST. Can we also discuss There’s A Boy In The Girl’s Bathroom? Holes?

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• Public Books — Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing

  I love this rich and thoughtful piece on Afrofuturism by @snamwali via
  @publicbooks https://t.co/sFQwC612OD

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• Stefanie Cole on Twitter: "Show Wiliam Carlos Williams' Breakfast without the title/first line & have them guess it! #poetrychat https://t.co/F8okl9OIG8"

  Oh, the fun my juniors will have with this one! #poetrychat https://t.co/FuiV75R36b

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• Teaching Authors–6 Children’s Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Science Poems. Poetry Month. Poetry Friday. Oh, My!

  THRILLED by this post on Poetry and Science by @aprilhwayland! https://t.co/5IsBew9Ff4 https://t.co/H9zOaIfs1L

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• If you got this close to many animals in these pho

  If you got this close to many animals in these photos, you might not live to tell the tale https://t.co/h0Ngp8hYkU https://t.co/FQ27gGw67H

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• Apple’s new short film starring autistic teen shows how tech transforms lives

  Apple’s new short film starring autistic teen shows how tech transforms lives #SmartNews https://t.co/OVsMuGaZtT

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• What Is the Role of Poetry in Literacy Learning? – Literacy & NCTE

  What is the role of poetry in literacy learning? @janetwongauthor) & @MaryLeeHahn #nctechat https://t.co/9KyrWmLyYv

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• EdWeek Teacher on Twitter: "How one school's #teachers built a more interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to instruction #ewopinion https://t.co/pe44DjoA22"

  Yes, a thousand times, yes! So many great things going on here! #collaboration #interdisciplinary #literacy https://t.co/TFJ6Y2T1LI

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• Teaching Smarter: Sharing the Instructional Lift Through Collaborative Frameworks – Education Week Teacher

  How one school’s #teachers built a more interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to instruction #ewopinion
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• 2016 Green Earth Book Award Shortlist Announced – The Nature Generation

  What a beautiful list! This may be my new fave award: 2016 Green Earth Book Award Shortlist Announced https://t.co/UYCkykYuyn via @TheNatGen

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• David Aderhold on Twitter: "Proud to join the 2nd Cohort of TED-ED Innovative Educators!!! https://t.co/gOqLkFJugT @barrykid1 @Bec_Chirps @NJASCD #wwprsd @TED_ED"

  Honored to work with @david_aderhold as my superintendent! #njed #edtech #leadwithgiants #WeLeadEd https://t.co/vFRlMJmC5g

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• Lions and Tigers and Illegal Wildlife Goods (Oh my!) – Radiolab

  The Warehouse of Butterflies and Rhinos https://t.co/pTvJLmiI9I https://t.co/TKKxCFduY2

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• By Heart – The Atlantic

  If they are going to have to write about literature, this series (By Heart) in @TheAtlantic is brilliant! https://t.co/52p8sxCMqW #engchat

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• In Character : NPR

  Ss can also analyze character by studying this series (In Character) from @nprbooks https://t.co/TGBU2TZHEw #engchat

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• Randall Munroe’s xkcd comics are going into textbooks – Tech Insider

  @AldaCenter New textbooks with @xkcd comics make #science what it should be: relatable

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